methodistgirl
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You are right about that.
judy tooley:grin:
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Totally useless facts ...
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Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Judy, there IS a grain or two of truth among the chaff here, that's for sure.
intet_at_tabe
Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Totally Useless Facts
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers
failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches
tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.tall.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
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Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A
cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.
combined.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand
which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would
have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that
they were descendants of the devil.
right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand
which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would
have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that
they were descendants of the devil.
Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to
describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).
describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured
by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc. (A reader of this page stated that this statement is not true: Aerogel is the densest solid in the world at 1mg/cc.)
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than
light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed
to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed
to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a person’s
head.
head.
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it)
cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it)
If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.
atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. ( In your next life do you want to be a pig?)
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Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
There are 1,196 species of Geckos.
intet_at_tabe
Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
It is reckoned that 50% of the entire population on our commen planet, use a mobile phone every day.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
According to the International Astronomical Union there are 70 sextillion stars in the visible Universe or 7 followed by 22 zeroes which can also be expressed as 7*10^22. Thats a big number which causes my brain to seize up in a debilitating migraine. :shake::shake::shake::shake::shake::shake::shake:
Andrew Roussak
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Margaret,
now I know what was wrong with my bed all this time - I just had to pull the ropes!!
Well, if you once chance to buy a car in China, you may be sure that at least the make-up mirror there will be in a perfect order. Because the 70 percent of all car sellers in China are women!
intet_at_tabe
Rear Admiral Appassionata (Ret.)
Margaret,
now I know what was wrong with my bed all this time - I just had to pull the ropes!!
Well, if you once chance to buy a car in China, you may be sure that at least the make-up mirror there will be in a perfect order. Because the 70 percent of all car sellers in China are women!
Andrew, you´re hilarious :tiphat::clap::wave::banana::trp::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Margaret - again you're a bottomless pit of knowledge. I like the mattress quote (hard to proove but convincing).
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Margaret - I just didn't get your "if you were to spell out numbers ..." one, my brain's far too feeble.
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
I'm too fat so string wouldn't work, I'd need threaded steel likely ...
methodistgirl
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I didn't know that it almost takes a chisel to cut up Mexican chocolate.
I bought it in cakes and you have to chop it up before using it.
That stuff is like a rock. But it's good!
judy tooley
I bought it in cakes and you have to chop it up before using it.
That stuff is like a rock. But it's good!
judy tooley