Mindless Fact Monday ~ June 22, 2009

~ The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

~ Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by 10 years.

~ A donkey will sink in quicksand. A mule won't.

~ The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in is protected by law.

~ Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

~ In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew featured bottles with a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth $5-10 each.

~ To be born on Sunday was a sign of great sin during the Puritan times.

~ The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging, then the airline pilot.

~ In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

~ A British medical journal, The Practitioner, has officially designated bird watching as a hazardous activity. This is because a bird watcher that was so engrossed in watching birds that he did not notice his dangerous surroundings and was eaten by a crocodile.