Because Chuck says so

The World About Us

If the history of the Earth were to be measured in proportion to one year, man did not appear until 8.30pm on 31 December.

If the ice caps melted completely, the sea level across the world would rise by around 250ft – enough to put Big Ben under water.

There are over 500,000 earthquakes in the world every year. Of these, 100,000 can be felt and 1000 cause damage.

The Pacific Ocean covers nearly a third of the globe. It contains more water then all the world’s other oceans and seas put together.

What a Coincidence

Writer Mark Twain was born in 1835, the year of Halley’s comet. Twain remarked that as he had come into the world with the comet, so he would pass from the world with it. Halley’s comet returned in 1910, and, sure enough, Twain died that year.

During the Second World War the British Museum in London was twice hit by German bomb, the second passing through the hole made by the first. Neither bomb exploded.

Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon. Aldrin was the second man on the Moon.

In 1898, retired Merchant Navy Offices Morgan Robertson wrote a novel, The Wreck of the Titan, which uncannily predicted the Titanic disaster 14 years later. Apart from the similarity in the names of the two ships, Robertson’s Titan was also huge, supposedly unsinkable British liner making its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with 3000 passengers on board. It too struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank with many people losing their lives because of the shortage of lifeboats.

In April 1935, a ship named the Titanian, carrying coal from Newcastle to Canada, almost suffered the same fate as the Titanic when encountering an iceberg on the same area of the North Atlantic. Luckily, crewman William Reeves had a premonition of impending disaster and yelled “Danger ahead!” to the navigator shortly before the iceberg beamed visible in the darkness. Reeves was born on 15 April 1912 – the day the Titanic sank.

Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers rock band was killed in a motorbike accident in Macon, Georgia, in 1971. A year later, fellow Allman Brother’s member Berry Oakley was killed in another motorbike crash just three blocks away.

In 1799 and American privateer, the Nancy, was seized by a British warship in the Caribbean. Prior to capture, the Nancy’s skipper, Thomas Briggs, managed to throw the ship’s American paper overboard and replace them with Dutch forgeries. Charged in Jamaica with running a British blockade during wartime, Briggs looked set to go free for lack of evidence, But in the course of the trial another British warship, HMS Ferret, arrived in port and produced the incriminating papers. The ferret, had caught a large shark off Haiti and inside the shark’s stomach were the papers.

For three successive seasons between 1956 and 1958, Leeds United were drawn at home to Cardiff City in the third round of the FA Cup. Each time, Cardiff won 2-1.

Four of the first six US Presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Quincy Adams - were 57 when they were inaugurated.

In 1975 a Bedfordshire family were stunned when a huge chunk of ice dropped out of the sky and crashed through the roof of their house. At the time they were watching a film on TV about the Titanic.

On 23 May 1939, the recently built American submarine Squalus sank off the eastern seaboard. A sister ship, the Sculpin succeeded in rescuing half of the 56-man crew. The Squalus was subsequently salvaged and renamed the Sailfish. In 1943, the Sculpin was sunk by the Japanese who took 42 men prisoner, placing half of them on board the aircraft carrier Cuyo. Approaching Japan, the Cuyo was torpedoed by the Sailfish and everyone on board was killed. So the crew of the Sailfish had killed half of the survivors of the submarine that had come to their rescue four years previously

Fact 1: Chuck Norris is able to make the sound of one hand clapping. The rest of humanity perceives this sound as a solar eclipse.

Fact 2: The Martial Arts Hall of Fame was inducted into Chuck Norris.

Fact 3: Chuck Norris body is able to cash any check that his mouth writes. On a hot summer day Chuck Norris body even cashed a check for $537 Million that his mouth wrote. Chuck Norris used the money to buy 17 Ice Cream factories, 16 to cool himself off and 1 to obliterate for roundhouse kick practice

Fact 4: Most people understand that their bank deposits are insured by the FDIC. What most people dont understand is that the FDIC is insured by Chuck Norris.

Fact 5: Chuck Norris knows the meaning of every word in the dictionary - except mercy.