Totally useless facts ...

[marval]

Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters.

 

[Corno Dolce]

In other words, a horny bugger...........

 

[methodistgirl]

My knitting video never did upload on you tube. I gave up and went to
bed. I will try it again today.
judy tooley

 

[Corno Dolce]

At an ocean depth of 36,000 feet the water pressure is 16,000 pounds per square inch or eight tons per square inch - I pity the fool who finds themselves at that depth.

 

[marval]

In ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a girl was a way to propose for marriage.. If the girl caught it, that would mean she accepts.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Dame Margaret - hope it wasn't a really hard throw at the hapless girl's head!

 

[Contratrombone64]

Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves

 

[marval]

That's a shame CT, then we could do without a visit to the dentist.


When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Dame Margaret. That horrid witch also died with the blood of many humble, wise and faithful men on her hands.

 

[Corno Dolce]

The world record for tossing Haggis without bursting it is 180' 10'' - the record was set in 1984.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Ruth Ellis was executed by hanging in 1955; the suspension of capital punishment throughout England made her the last woman to be executed by this method

 

[Corno Dolce]

The Provincial French Government in Algiers was still using the Guillotine during the Algerian War to punish certain lawbreakers.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Hum! Where I live they use molasses to flavor Dr. Pepper. They have
a bottling company where you can actually watch. They use molasses
here instead of prune juice. That can also give your stomach the
urge to go too!
judy tooley

Judy, it always pays to get your facts correct. I wrote to Dr. Pepper, most vexingly they didn't deny or claim the use of molasses. They did however state the following to me:

Thank you for contacting us about Dr Pepper. Your comments and inquiries are appreciated because they provide valuable feedback about our brands.
Because we do not own Dr Pepper outside of the US and Canada, we cannot confirm whether or not the manufacturing process for this product abroad is the same as ours. However, we can certainly confirm that Dr Pepper does NOT contain prune juice, it is simply a rumor that was never founded.
Our Company has been making great brands that make a splash for more than 100 years. We are proud of our family of products and are committed to providing a wide range of choices for all individuals.
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. We hope that you will continue to purchase and enjoy our products.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Thanx for dispelling the rumor which I helped along by publishing what I had read about on another site - You da man, CT64!

 

[Contratrombone64]

point of fact: I don't like Dr. Pepper ... tastes horrid to me.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Except to the Scots ... this is cool but totally useless:

Scotland is geologically alien to Europe, comprising a lost sliver of the ancient continent of Laurentia (which later formed the bulk of North America). During the Cambrian period the crustal region which became Scotland formed part of the continental shelf of Laurentia, then still south of the equator. Laurentia was separated from the continent of Baltica (which later became Scandinavia and the Baltic region) by the diminishing Iapetus Ocean. The two ancient continents moved toward one another through the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, with tectonic folding during the Silurian pushing the first Scottish land above water. The final collision occurred during the Devonian period, with the Scottish segment of the Laurentian plate smashing into Avalonia (which contained what is now most of England and Wales), a motile subcontinent which had previously joined with Baltica. This impact threw up a massive chain of mountains (at least as tall as the present-day Alps) and saw the formation of the granitic West Highland and Grampian mountain chains and (through the Carboniferous) a period of volcanic activity in central and eastern Scotland. During the Permian and Triassic periods, with the Iapetus Ocean entirely closed, Scotland lay near the centre of the Pangaean supercontinent. With the advent of the Tertiary, a constructive plate boundary became active between Laurentia and Eurasia, pushing the two apart (and parting Scotland from Laurentia forever). This recession opened the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, and the consequent subduction zone at the western plate margin led to a renewed period of vulcanism, this time on Scotland's west coast, producing fresh mountains on Skye, Jura, Mull, Rùm, and Arran.
This tectonic activity produced the basis of Scotland's topography: ancient mountains in the North and South of the country, partially eroded by 400 million years of water and ice with a wide fertile valley between them, and a newer, wilder western terrain. With Scotland now in the northern temperate zone, it was subjected to numerous glaciations in the Neogene and Quaternary periods, the ice sheets and their attendant glaciers carving the landscape into a typical postglacial one, overdeeping river valleys into the characteristic U-shape and leaving the upland areas covered with glacial corries and dramatic pyramidal peaks. In lowland areas the ice deposited rich fields of fertile glacial till and eroded the softer material surrounding the extinct volcanoes (particularly the older Carboniferous ones), leaving many crags.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha CT64,

That was totally cool to read a bit of geologic history in re to Scotland.

Cheerio,

CD

 

[Corno Dolce]

The scientific name for goosebumps is *Horripilations*.

 

[marval]

Singer Paula Abdul used to be a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers.

 

[Mat]

The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as philtrums.