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Trick or Treat

On August 28, 1988, the Yantlee Polyclinic in Bangkok published a claim that you can get rid of hunger by pressing lettuce seeds into your ears ten times before meals.

In July 2000, German police arrested a drunken cyclist who had modified his helmet to ensure that he did not have to stop drinking beer while cycling. The helmet had a can of beer attached to each side and straws leading into his mouth. A blood test found that the cyclist had a blood alcohol level enough to have had his driving license taken away if he had been driving a car Police let him off with a warning and allowed him to keep his helmet – on condition he promised to return it to its original condition.

Rice is thrown at weddings as it is considered to be a seed symbolic of life and prosperity. It was traditionally thought that throwing rice would help increase the fertility of the married couple to ensure that they had children.

Hair growth rate is genetically determined. It also grows more slowly with age, and is affected by both internal states and environmental conditions. Researchers report that while hair grows, shedding also increases in the spring and summer. Research suggests that hair shedding is related to daylight, and that reducing exposure to sunlight may help prevent seasonal shedding.

Crocodiles don’t have tongues.

Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril re more pleasant than the left.

If it isn’t moving, a frog can’t see it. If a frog can’t see it, he won’t eat it.

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital is a state -of-the-art teaching facility complete with operating room, classroom and recovery room – this amazing aircraft has been an example of the marriage between medicine and aviation since 1982.

October 12 is Indigenous People's Day as well as Columbus Day. It began as a counter-celebration held on the same day Columbus Day. Indigenous Peoples' Day is intended to celebrate Native Americans and commemorate their shared history and culture.

Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary my dear Watson.”

While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth,

America’s first nudist organization was founded in 1929 by 3 men.

Trick-or-treating has been a popular Halloween tradition in the United States and other countries for an estimated 100 years. Halloween has its roots in the ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, which was celebrated on the night of October 31. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the United Kingdom, believed that the dead returned to earth on Samhain (Oct. 31). During some Celtic celebrations of Samhain, villagers disguised themselves in costumes made of animal skins to drive away phantom visitors. In later centuries, people began dressing as ghosts, demons and other malevolent creatures, performing antics in exchange for food and drink. This custom, known as mumming, dates back to the Middle Ages and is thought to be an antecedent of trick-or-treating.

Sources: Encyclopedia of Useless Information by William Hartston; www.reference.com; www.live strong.com; www.orbis.com;www.enwikipedia.org; www.corsinet.com; www.history.com; picture: hellasmultimedia.com