Tricky Teasers - Freakish Facts



Set 3


Answer 2


    Six square feet - exactly the same area as that by which the top sash overlaps the bottom sash.


Freakish Facts


    A Brazilian couple managed to produce five children while not speaking to each other for 35 years. 71 year old Geraldo Castro, of Rio, said, "I didn't want to interrupt the silence. It just seemed better that way."

Actions also speak louder than words for Ian Artingsall who spent £52,000 on a four-storey house then demolished it, brick-by-brick, in "a statement against all the bad things in the world".

The scientist, Sir Francis Galton, produced a Beauty Map of Britain. According to his statistics, London had the most beautiful women; and Aberdeen the least.

When Galton surveyed the size of women's bottoms in Africa, he did so at a distance, using a sextant, to avoid embarrassment.


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(C) David 2/9/2007

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