Just A Few To Ponder Over

1. In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, “goodnight, sleep tight” came from.

2. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

3. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

4. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”

5. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s.”

6. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.

7. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

8. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan”.

9. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

10. 57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.


All true!!!! Yes even number ten.