Some Funny Stuff that may be a surprise for U!

• Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.
• Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. “I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies,” she says.
• Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.
• Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it’s possibly because religious people have less fear of death.
• Humans can be born suffering from a rare condition known as “sirenomelia” or “mermaid syndrome”, in which the legs are fused together to resemble the tail of a fish.
• One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
• Prince Charles broke with an 80-year tradition by giving Camilla Parker Bowles a wedding ring fashioned from Cornish gold, instead of the nugget of Welsh gold that has provided rings for all royal brides and grooms since 1923.
• It’s possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
• The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing “is equal to” in his equations. He chose the two lines because “noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle”.
• One person in four has had their identity stolen or knows someone who has.
• The length of a man’s fingers can reveal how physically aggressive he is, scientists say.
• One in four people does not know 192, the old number for directory inquiries in the UK, has been abolished.
• When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.
• “Restaurant” is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
• The name Lego came from two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well”. It also means “I put together” in Latin.
• The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor.
• An average Briton will spend £1,537,380 during his or her lifetime, a survey from insurer Prudential suggests.
• C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don’t get on.

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