Random Facts part IV


Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. (There is actually a name for this pheonomeon called NYC Summer Cat Syndrome (NYC-SCS)...from what I remember reading in one of my myraid of cat books...in the summer people in NYC allow their cats out on their balconies more often. The random cat falls off ,of course and after studying this they found that cats from a LOWER distance sustained more serious injury rather than ones who fell from a higher floor. Cause falling from a lower floor leaves less time to correct yourself. Leave it to cats....Got to be different dont they?)

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise itwill digest itself. (ugh...I hate the word mucus!)

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." (substitute the word for money and thats about right!)

A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking. (Can I tell people to not walla walla in my classroom then?)


The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. (While beating in general is okay...)


Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.(See...now that really IS interesting)

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.(...and that really ISNT)

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs --it will let you go instantly. (As if I could possibly remember this with a crocodile eating my leg...)


Reindeer like to eat bananas.(this is because of the flying monkeys that once rode them...oh wait...thats Wizard of Oz not Santa Clause is coming to town...)

Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because onespecially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.( I protest...it should be called a three kitty cat night!)

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.(so thats why!!! Interesting!)

(and for all my English-teacher friends as well as Pumnani as she finesses the English language)The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.(what about the dingos?!?)

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.(one of the many reasons that cats are better than dogs!!!)