More Unbelievable Facts

1.       There's a species of fish called "Slippery Dick".

2.       In 2012, a couple invited Queen Elizabeth II to their wedding as a joke, and she turned up.

3.       During the 7th century B.C., ancient Roman "vestal virgins" were required to keep their hymens intact as proof of virginity until age 30 or they would be buried alive.

4.       The world's oldest hotel has been operating since 705 AD.

5.       Lobsters are considered to be the cockroaches of the sea.

6.       Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.

7.       A Colombian woman was raised by monkeys after being kidnaped and abandoned in the jungle as a child.

8.       Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist.

9.       In 2011, a monkey was arrested in Pakistan for crossing the border with India.

10.   The Roman Emperor Gaius Caligula made his horse a senator.

11.   Octopuses are eaten alive in Korea.

12.   The night before his execution, a man in Georgia escaped from prison and, later that night, was beaten to death in a bar fight.

13.   Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, was actually Greek, not Egyptian.

14.   Heroin was initially used to treat people addicted to morphine.

15.   As a child, Hitler wanted to be a priest.

16.   All three Grammys Elvis Presley won, were for his gospel songs.

17.   Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.

18.   In the USA, ransom payments to kidnappers are tax-deductible.

19.   Saddam Hussein wrote a Romantic Novel.

20.   The Golden Gate uses the largest bridge cables ever made, long enough to encircle the world more than 3 times at the equator.