KOOL JOINT: Amazing Facts archive

Category: B

Most caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes colour after child birth
Human babies are born 2 months premature for their size and lifespan. This is to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains during birth. (Got this off my lecture)
Babies crawl an average of 200m a day
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age
August has the highest percentage of births

A Baboon called “Jackie” became a private in the South African army in World War I

Believe that Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and Baha’u'llah are all prophets from God? Believe in progressive revelation? Have you heard of bahai’s or the Baha’i faith?
Abdul Baha was initally scheduled to be on Titanic for His voyage to America
Unlike other religions, Baha’is do not accept donations outside the faith
Iranian Baha’is are still being prosecuted in this day and age. They are ejected from universities, imprisoned, their graves and Holy sites are demolished, homes raided and assets confiscated.

If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won’t pop. Thanx harrison

In the early days, temples were used as banks and the first loans were taken out against rice
Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history
The Bank of America on Disneyland’s Main Street was in fact a functioning bank (for Cast Members) until the late ’70′s. It was also the only bank in America that was open on Sunday.
The Bank of America was originally called The Bank of Italy
In 2010, the Bank of America was the 3rd largest company in the world
In 2007, the top five hold $6,775,079,249,000.00 in assets. That’s six trillion dollars!
In Papua New Guinea, people can enter a bank just wearing a penis sheath (koteka)

In the past, barbers were also surgeons and dentists
When a barber finished an operation, he would wrap the bloody bandages around a pole. That is the origin of the red swirled barber pol
Barbers are mentioned in the bible. “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard.”
In England, people were required by law to shave their head or beard
Barbers used to give their clients enemas

Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
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
Barbie was originally based on the “Bild Lili doll”, a prostitute in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin and first sold in Germany in 1955. The doll was marketed to adult men in bars and tobacco shops, not to children
Barbie’s boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage
Ruth Handler, the co-founder of Mattel, was also the inventor of prosthetic breast implants