Offbeat Enough

Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Here’s the story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of the worst natural disaster in the history of the West African nation of Cameroon… and what they’re doing to try and stop it from happening again.

In one large city a telephone operator traced the source of an emergency phone call because the caller would not speak. The phone only emitted unusual noises. When the ambulance crew arrived at the scene, they found a basset hound who had dialed 911 in the process of chewing up the phone.

An average person visits the toilet 2500 times a year. About 6-8 times a day. You spend about 3 years of your life in the toilet.

History of Beer
Beer has a long and fascinating history. From ancient Egypt to medieval monks, from Australian Governors encouraging the establishment of breweries to (for a time) being outlawed by the U.S. Constitution, beer has come a long way. Today beer is one of the most common and popular beverages the world over.
Beer has, over the years, been part of daily ration for people whose lives have been long and hard and at the same time been the symbol of celebration, recreation and relaxation.
The word ‘beer’ most likely comes from either the old English ‘bere’ or from the plant ‘beere’, which was once used in making beer. Another possibility is that the word beer comes from the Latin ‘bibere’, which means ‘to drink’, which then became ‘biber’ and then ‘bier’.

The village is known to have existed as “Fucking” since at least 1070 and is named after a man from the 6th century called Focko. “Ing” is an old Germanic suffix meaning “people”; thus Fucking, in this case, means “place of Focko’s people”.

Beard
Josephine Clofullia, the most famous Bearded Lady of all time and a prominent attraction in P.T. Barnum’s side show in the nineteenth century, had a Beard 6 inches long when she was only sixteen. Josephine was an ardent admirer of the French monarch Napoleon III, and she styled her beard after his. So sincerely flattered was the ruler when he learned of this imitation that he sent Madame Clofullia a large diamond, which she wore, appropriately, in her Beard.

Vampire bats really do drink blood. They feed on the blood of birds, cattle, horses, and pigs … and the occasional sleeping human.

# Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Francisco (”Pancho”) Villa

# I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast!
“Black Jack” Ketchum, notorious train robber

You can Hypnotize Chickens
A chicken can be hypnotized, or put into a trance by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken.
If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will remain immobile for somewhere between 15 seconds to 30 minutes, continuing to stare at the line.

If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.