Trading standards officers looking for pirate computer games found counterfeit disks and copying equipment at a house in Mountain Ash, South Wales, but were unable to locate the master disks until the owner's parrot squarked:"Under the mattress!Under the mattress!"
They then uncovered two cases containing 200 games worth about L10,000 ($16,000)."The parrot was giving us earache...when it dawned on us what [it] was actually squarking,"said Phil Jones, an investigator with European Leisure Software Publishers'Assoc.,which took part in the raid. --- D.Telegraph,D.Mail.D.Record,11Sept. 1998
The FBI suspected Groucho Marx of Marxist tendencies,according to the American publication THE NATION. A 186-pagefile on the comedian was compiled in 1953, apparently. --- [AFP]15 Sept. 1998
R.J. McKennon, 38, fell for dancer Brianne, 22, in Las Vegas and married her.
A month later, Brianne revealed she had been given up for adoption in a small Texas town. R.J., from the same town, realised her mother was a girlfriend he had got pregnant. Tests confirmed his suspicions and the marriage was annulled. --- Sun 23 Sept. 1998
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfishes don't have brains.
After reading all these, all I can say is....Lucky Pig
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