Did You Know…. Another Random Selection Of Facts From The Fasab Files

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”


More from the fascinating fact file.

Here are a few more things that you didn’t know you didn’t know.



did you know 5


There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

change for a dollar



A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye

can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

So the book is wrong!

500 shades of gray.


A pregnant goldfish is called a twit 

–  especially by her parents!



If you plant an apple seed,

it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree

of a different type of apple.

apple tree.


Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain,

has the longest average lifespan:

83.49 years.



“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick”

is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

tongue twister.


‘Duff’ is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.






Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.

lincoln ghost.


Only female mosquitoes bite.

mosquito female.



past tense.


Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

friday the 13th.


Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

(and ninety percent of that ninety percent have no clue where they are going!)

NY cabbies rogues.


The volume of the earth’s moon is the same

as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.



The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII.

The New York phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

phone book.


King Louis XIX ruled France for about 15 minutes 

–  he succeeded with abdication of Charles X

only to abdicate in favor of Henry V.



Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves

when they rode past their king.

This custom has become the modern military salute.

armored knight.


Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

(and all new babies look just like him, except your own of course!)

 Churchill babies