[Wissen, das die Welt nicht braucht] ... goes innernäschenel

Dieses Mal das Wissen, das die Welt nicht braucht, in der internationalen Ausführung – have fun, folks!

1. The Greek word “gymnasium” means “to exercise naked”. In Ancient Greece, gymnasts wore no clothes.
2. All polar bears are left-handed.
3. A snowflake can take up to an hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
4. The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
5. Raindrops are not tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
6. The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before its born and after it’s dead.
7. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
8. Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.
9. Chicken with red earlobes produce brown eggs, chicken with white earlobes produce white eggs.
10. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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