UNBELIEVABLE

(Investigator 118, 2008 January)

Did you know that:

Kublai Khan had 5000 resident court astrologers?

• A doctor talked Hitler’s mother out of an abortion?

• Pope Paul III had 45,000 prostitutes on his payroll?

• More people are killed by champagne corks, than by poisonous spiders?

• Failed suicides in 19^th century Britain were hanged?

• In Connersville, Wisconsin, no man may fire his gun while his female partner is having an orgasm?

• The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is beheading?

• 7% of Americans believe Elvis is still alive?

• Elizabethan women drank puppy urine to improve their complexion?

• 40,000 Americans are insured against kidnapping by aliens?

• Until the 19^th century urine was used as a morning mouthwash?

• Millions of Egyptian mummies were used for locomotive fuel in the 19^th century because wood and coal were in short supply?

Read Unbelievable Facts (over 2500 of them) by Geoff Tibballs.

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