You’re looking for Rhonda, right?  As par for a writer on deadline, her computer bit the dust in a big way.    Rhon will be posting on Thursday and I’m sure she will be more interesting then me. 

Onto my subject o' the day.... the weird stuff.  I love it.  The paranormal, ghost hunting, myths, legends or those odd facts you’ll never use except for Trivial Pursuit or  ‘Are you smarter Than a Fifth Grader?’ show.  Today is a mix of both.

Levitation--The most celebrated levitator in history was St Joseph of Copertino, a dimwitted monk who would soar into the air whenever he felt religious ecstasy. He had no control over his 'flights', which could last for minutes and were attested to by scores of witnesses from the Pope downwards.  So did the pope make him a saint for flying?

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.  That why they grab them all the time? 

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces.  So now I’m wondering…. what’s peeing like?

There are more fake flamingos in the US than real ones and they turn pink from eating shrimp.  It the high alpha and beta-carotene that does it.  In Brazil, they’re paler and Australia darker.  Shrimp pink…who knew?

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.  At $2.65 a gallon right now that means it’s over $150,000.00 to get that thing in the air.  I know jet fuel and automobile gas aren’t the same, but you get the idea.  A 250 seater and that’s $600 each.

Dowsing rods--US Marines in Vietnam had marked success in dowsing with coathangers to detect tunnels used by the Vietcong.  I saw it used on TV (Holmes on Homes) to locate the leech lines of a septic tank and he was using a coat hanger! 

It's estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States.  This one I know is true, I get a scam phone call at least once a week!  

This week a man received a DWI ticket while in a motorized lazyboy chair.  Okay, I think that’s hysterical.  It’s something my husband would try. (rather than fix all the broken stuff in this house!  oops that's another blog)

Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant.    Yes, a contest for the most beautiful surgically enhanced woman in Hungary.  So it’s who’s the best fake beauty?  Apparently contestants show off their enhancements to promote plastic surgery. (does that mean they shake their fake tah-tahs?)

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33.  She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.  Personally, I think she’d just fall over.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.  It was the fashion Renaissance Florence to shave them off.  (No Rhon, she didn't draw them on)

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria. (Fuji water contains arsenic!)

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.   Ear cooties!

This category makes me ask, they actually wasted taxpayer money to pass legislation on this?

In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.  Huh? 

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

In parts of Alaska, it's illegal to feed alcohol to a moose. (Even if they're dating?)

It's illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.  A butcher shop? So curing cow meat is a turn on…? Ew.

You wouldn't believe how many predictions of Nostradamus are a hoax.  Have a read, especially the ones pointed at 9-11. 

http://strangegr.tripod.com/strangeandparanormalactivities/id35.html

So bloggers, any strange, twisted facts in your bag? 

Happy Monday everyone!

AMY