Totally useless facts ...

[marval]

In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Coca-Cola was originally green.

 

[marval]

Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Pearls melt in vinegar.

A twit is really a female goldfish.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Wow!!! Ms. Margaret, thanx for that piece of info. I honestly believed that hard hats came about in 1890 or there about. That they were invented during the construction of the Hoover Dam is news to me - Well they were certainly needed at that jobsite - all the falling rocks and what not else airborne there.

 

[marval]

Yes indeed, very risky I would think working on the Hoover Dam.

I didn't know that a female goldfish was called a twit.




According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.

 

[Corno Dolce]

100% of all lottery winners gain weight.

 

[marval]

Germany produces more than 5,000 varieties of beer and has about 1,300 breweries in the country.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Thats a whole lot of suds there Ms. Margaret.

The billionth digit of pi is 9.

There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different possible combinations on a rubix cube.

 

[marval]

Yes CD, a lot of suds, hic hic.

That is a lot of combinations on a rubix cube. My co-ordination was never good enough for that.



Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.


And to follow on from CD

In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.

 

[Corno Dolce]

WOW!!! Unscrambling a rubix cube in 22 seconds - Man, thats darn good...


Starfish have no brains.

 

[Mat]

22 seconds you say? I assume you haven't seen that :grin:

[YOUTUBE]http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZ9fsusMGc[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Corno Dolce]

Oh my goodness - 10.56 seconds!!!!!!!

That was a pretty well oiled rubix the guy was manipulating...

 

[Mat]

For those of you who like Rubik's cube - try Rubik's clock. It's fun.

 

[marval]

I hadn't seen that Mat, thank you. I never could get the hang of it.



In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

Eeeiikk

 

[Corno Dolce]

A snail has 1500 teeth.

 

[methodistgirl]

It takes all day to upload a video and then hope and pray that it down
loaded right. I had to redo a video twice to get Henry eats a grape
just like I wanted. Why is you tube so slow anyway?
judy tooley

 

[Contratrombone64]

Judy - YouTube needs to process a LOT of data to get your video online. Just be patient, it can take hours depending on the length.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Speaking of videos - I was in Brisbane for work, but spent last weekend there with one of my oldest friends. He's a viola player, like I was, and also has violins and pianos all over the place. Now, before the critical barbs puncture me like a porcupine attack. I have not played a violin (viola) for three years. So my technique's up the creek ...

$^*#&$ #$$*&^* !!

my movie has the extension 3GPP movie and it will play on Apple's QuickTime but it won't upload here ???