Napalm sticks to kids
08/20/08 Did you know...?
There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.
There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.
Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.
When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter’s atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.
27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia.
The world’s 350+ billionaires have more assets than the combined assets of the bottom 45% of the world’s population.
Thirteen percent of the human population reside in deserts.
In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships.
In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an empolyee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
In 1976 Rodrigo's Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
08/13/08 Did you know...?
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
In Greene, new york, you cannot walk backwards and eat peanuts on teh sidewalk during a concert.
In Hardford, Connecut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured by temple priests.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
In Casablanka, humphrey Bogart never said Play it again, Sam.
In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships.
In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an empolyee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
In 1976 Rodrigo's Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday.
Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her wedding gown was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all she had to do was rip up her dress.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
IN the flim 'Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. But new Zealand is missing.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
In the heart of the Antarctic winter, temperatures drop to as low as 127 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the Marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the Couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for injuring a human.
In the past 100 years only 12 people have been attacked by mountain lions in the state of California. Five died and two of those were because of rabies in 1909
In the United States there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death every 14 seconds.
In the White House, there are 13,092 Knives, forks, and spoons.
In Greene, new york, you cannot walk backwards and eat peanuts on teh sidewalk during a concert.
In Hardford, Connecut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured by temple priests.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
In Casablanka, humphrey Bogart never said Play it again, Sam.
In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships.
In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an empolyee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
In 1976 Rodrigo's Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday.
Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her wedding gown was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all she had to do was rip up her dress.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
IN the flim 'Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. But new Zealand is missing.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
In the heart of the Antarctic winter, temperatures drop to as low as 127 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the Marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the Couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for injuring a human.
In the past 100 years only 12 people have been attacked by mountain lions in the state of California. Five died and two of those were because of rabies in 1909
In the United States there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death every 14 seconds.
In the White House, there are 13,092 Knives, forks, and spoons.
08/12/08 Did you know...?
Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.
Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.
Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaper.
By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.
Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.
Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education.
Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world.
In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger.
In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring.
In a study done, moms that were very active had no effect on how active their daughter’s would be. However, dads that encouraged exercise, had more active daughters.
In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
In America, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce.
In an year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls.
In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries.
In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour.
In the UK, one third of accidental deaths that happen occur in the home.
In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year.
In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time.
It is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
Men are more likely to be colorblind than women. About one of out of 12 men are colorblind.
More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.
Most American women have their first baby when they are 24.3 years old.
On average men spend 51 minutes a day grooming themselves.
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually.
On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.
On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime.
On average, Americans spend five times more of their time in their cars than they do on vacation.
On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day.
One out of 200 women is colorblind.
One out of every five births in the United States are delivered by Cesarean section.
Over 1,600 people in North America have been victims of trunk entrapment (being locked inside of a car trunk).
Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.
Babies that wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to get a diaper rash than babies wearing a cotton diaper.
By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.
Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.
Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education.
Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world.
In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger.
In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring.
In a study done, moms that were very active had no effect on how active their daughter’s would be. However, dads that encouraged exercise, had more active daughters.
In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
In America, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce.
In an year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls.
In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries.
In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour.
In the UK, one third of accidental deaths that happen occur in the home.
In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year.
In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time.
It is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
Men are more likely to be colorblind than women. About one of out of 12 men are colorblind.
More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.
Most American women have their first baby when they are 24.3 years old.
On average men spend 51 minutes a day grooming themselves.
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually.
On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.
On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime.
On average, Americans spend five times more of their time in their cars than they do on vacation.
On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day.
One out of 200 women is colorblind.
One out of every five births in the United States are delivered by Cesarean section.
Over 1,600 people in North America have been victims of trunk entrapment (being locked inside of a car trunk).
Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
07/30/08 Did you know...?
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
The United States Mint once considered producing donut-shaped coins.
The USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.
The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.
The world’s first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.
There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.
Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.
When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter’s atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.
27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year.
American women, on average, spend 55 minutes per day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.
An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week.
Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world’s oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.
The United States Mint once considered producing donut-shaped coins.
The USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.
The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.
The world’s first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.
There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.
Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.
When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter’s atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.
27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year.
American women, on average, spend 55 minutes per day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.
An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week.
Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world’s oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.
07/25/08 Did you know...?
Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.
An average Briton will spend £1,537,380 during his or her lifetime, a survey from insurer Prudential suggests.
Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street.
Britain's smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, opens just once a year. It measures 4m by 3.6m and has one pew.
The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
Driving at 159mph - reached by the police driver cleared of speeding - it would take nearly a third of a mile to stop.
Liverpool has 42 cranes redeveloping the city centre.
A quarter of the world's clematis come from one Guernsey nursery, where production will top 4.5m plants this year alone.
Tim Henman has a tennis court at his new home in Oxfordshire which he has never used.
Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.
Parking wardens walk about 15 miles a day.
You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
Deep Throat is reportedly the most profitable film ever. It was made for $25,000 (£13,700) and has grossed more than $600m.
Antony Worrall-Thompson swam the English Channel in his youth.
The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.
The man who was the voice of one of the original Daleks, Roy Skelton, also did the voices for George and Zippy in Rainbow.
The average guest at a Buckingham Palace garden party scoffs 14 cakes, sandwiches, scones and ice-cream, according to royal accounts.
Oliver Twist is very popular in China, where its title is translated as Foggy City Orphan.
Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a month, according to research carried out by University of California.
You can bet on your own death.
MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.
It takes less energy to import a tomato from Spain than to grow them in this country because of the artificial heat needed, according to Defra.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's home number is listed by directory inquiries.
Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, created the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into.
The hotter it is, the more difficult it is for aeroplanes to take off. Air passengers in Nevada, where temperatures have reached 120F, have been told they can't fly.
Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its 1969 publication.
An average Briton will spend £1,537,380 during his or her lifetime, a survey from insurer Prudential suggests.
Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street.
Britain's smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, opens just once a year. It measures 4m by 3.6m and has one pew.
The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
Driving at 159mph - reached by the police driver cleared of speeding - it would take nearly a third of a mile to stop.
Liverpool has 42 cranes redeveloping the city centre.
A quarter of the world's clematis come from one Guernsey nursery, where production will top 4.5m plants this year alone.
Tim Henman has a tennis court at his new home in Oxfordshire which he has never used.
Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.
Parking wardens walk about 15 miles a day.
You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
Deep Throat is reportedly the most profitable film ever. It was made for $25,000 (£13,700) and has grossed more than $600m.
Antony Worrall-Thompson swam the English Channel in his youth.
The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.
The man who was the voice of one of the original Daleks, Roy Skelton, also did the voices for George and Zippy in Rainbow.
The average guest at a Buckingham Palace garden party scoffs 14 cakes, sandwiches, scones and ice-cream, according to royal accounts.
Oliver Twist is very popular in China, where its title is translated as Foggy City Orphan.
Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a month, according to research carried out by University of California.
You can bet on your own death.
MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.
It takes less energy to import a tomato from Spain than to grow them in this country because of the artificial heat needed, according to Defra.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's home number is listed by directory inquiries.
Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, created the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into.
The hotter it is, the more difficult it is for aeroplanes to take off. Air passengers in Nevada, where temperatures have reached 120F, have been told they can't fly.
Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its 1969 publication.
07/23/08 Did you know...?
A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti specially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can’t vomit.
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
A snail can sleep for three years.
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.
“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.
The average fart travels over 16 feet when released.
An ant can live underwater for over 14 days.
Camels have a straight spine despite their hump.
In some places in Egypt it is free to use the restroom but you must bring/buy your own toilet pater.
The pickle while only containing 7 calories has no nutritional value. Dill pickles have more calories than sweet ones, which only have 6.
The distance between railroad tracks is 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches, this standard was based on Roman war chariots which was the size of two Roman war horses side by side.
On the door to Tutankhamen's tomb, so goes the legend, was inscribed a curse: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king..." And in the years hence, it seemed like Tut's mummy was making good on his curse:
On the day the tomb was discovered, Carter's canary, which he had brought with him to Egypt for luck, was devoured by a snake.
A few months later, Carter's financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly, perhaps from an infected insect bite.
When Carnarvon died, all the lights in Cairo went out from a power failure.
Although Carnarvon died in Cairo, back at his estate in England, his favorite dog howled and dropped dead.
When Tut's mummy was unwrapped in 1925, his body bore a wound on his face in the exact same spot as Carnarvon's insect bite.
"By 1929," says Howard Carter and the Curse of the Mummy, "eleven people connected with the discovery of the Tomb had died early and of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury. Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building. He left a note that read, 'I really cannot stand any more horrors and hardly see what good I am going to do here, so I am making my exit.' "
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti specially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can’t vomit.
The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
A snail can sleep for three years.
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.
“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.
The average fart travels over 16 feet when released.
An ant can live underwater for over 14 days.
Camels have a straight spine despite their hump.
In some places in Egypt it is free to use the restroom but you must bring/buy your own toilet pater.
The pickle while only containing 7 calories has no nutritional value. Dill pickles have more calories than sweet ones, which only have 6.
The distance between railroad tracks is 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches, this standard was based on Roman war chariots which was the size of two Roman war horses side by side.
On the door to Tutankhamen's tomb, so goes the legend, was inscribed a curse: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king..." And in the years hence, it seemed like Tut's mummy was making good on his curse:
On the day the tomb was discovered, Carter's canary, which he had brought with him to Egypt for luck, was devoured by a snake.
A few months later, Carter's financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly, perhaps from an infected insect bite.
When Carnarvon died, all the lights in Cairo went out from a power failure.
Although Carnarvon died in Cairo, back at his estate in England, his favorite dog howled and dropped dead.
When Tut's mummy was unwrapped in 1925, his body bore a wound on his face in the exact same spot as Carnarvon's insect bite.
"By 1929," says Howard Carter and the Curse of the Mummy, "eleven people connected with the discovery of the Tomb had died early and of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury. Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building. He left a note that read, 'I really cannot stand any more horrors and hardly see what good I am going to do here, so I am making my exit.' "
06/06/08 Did you know...?
Bulls are color blind.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
“Babe” was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver’s locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
99,999 digits of pi can be seen at http://www2.gvsu.edu/%7Efeenstrk/pi.html
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can’t walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
“Babe” was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver’s locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
99,999 digits of pi can be seen at http://www2.gvsu.edu/%7Efeenstrk/pi.html
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can’t walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
05/19/08 Did you know...?
In 2006, the total unauthorized population in the U.S. was estimated at 11,550,000 by the Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more than 186,600 illegal aliens in 2006.
57% of the unauthorized population in 2006 was from Mexico; 12% from El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil, and Honduras; 10% from India, Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philipines; while 21% were from all other countries.
As of 2006, California contained 24% of the total illegal alien population. Texas had 14%, Florida 8%, New York 5%, and Illinois 5%.
2005-2006 population studies indicated that unauthorized immigrants work in the following industries: service occupations (32%); construction and extractive jobs (19%); production, installation and repair (15%); sales and administrative (12%); management, business, and professional (10%); and farming (4%).
40 tunnels and subterranean passages have been discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border from Sep. 11, 2001 to Mar. 16, 2006.
Polar bears are left handed
An estimated 3.1 million American citizen children have at least one illegal alien parent.
Being an undocumented alien in the U.S. is a civil offense, not a felony or a misdemeanor.
The first major U.S. immigration curtailment was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Immigration Act.
The estimated fiscal cost of those illegal aliens to the federal, state and local governments was about $33 billion. This impact was partially offset by an estimated $12.6 billion in taxes paid to the federal, state and local governments, resulting in a net cost to the American taxpayer of about $20 billion every year."
Feb. 2004, Federation for American Immigration Reform
"The criminal alien problem is growing. Criminal aliens—non-citizens who commit crimes—are a growing threat to public safety and national security, as well as a drain on our scarce criminal justice resources. In 1980, our federal and state prisons housed fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. By the end of 1999, these same prisons housed over 68,000 criminal aliens. Today, criminal aliens account for over 29 percent of prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and a higher share of all federal prison inmates. These prisoners represent the fastest growing segment of the federal prison population.
Over the past five years, an average of more than 72,000 aliens have been arrested annually on drug charges alone. New issue paper... Among the alien federal prisoners, over half (55 percent) were illegally in the United States at the time of their conviction. Administering justice to criminal aliens costs the taxpayer dearly. Incarceration of criminal aliens cost an estimated $624 million to state prisons (1999) and $891 million to federal prisons (2002), according to the most recent available figure from the Bureau of Justice Statistics."
07/10/07, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
"On the state level, the Minnesota Department of Corrections estimates that it cost approximately $14 million in FY 2005 to incarcerate illegal immigrants in Minnesota. Accounting for federal SCAAP payments that reimburse the state for some of these costs, the net total state cost was approximately $12.8 million in FY 2005. The costs have increased 22.3% over the FY01-FY05 period. During this period, the number of incarcerated illegal immigrants increased from 380 in FY 2001 to 501 in FY 2005. The 501 offenders constituted 5.9% of the FY 2005 overall average prison population in the state. In addition, Minnesota received less in federal SCAAP payments in FY 2005 than it did in FY 2001."
12/08/05, Minnesota Department of Administration
"As we have learned here in Colorado in recent months, some of the costs can be elusive. But efforts such as this hearing will help all of us identify and understand the fiscal impacts. In many cases, the states and local governments incur significant costs related to illegal immigration, often due to federal mandates... We are able to identify the impact to our state correctional system for housing illegal immigrants who are convicted of crimes. In Colorado prisons, we are housing over 950 illegal immigrants who, upon release, will be detained by the federal office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for likely deportation. At a cost of nearly $27,000 per prisoner, the annual cost to taxpayers to house these offenders is over $25 million."
Bill Owens, former Governor of the State of Colorado
"After conducting a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders for the time period of January 1999 through April 2006 , it is clear that the U.S. public faces a dangerous threat from sex predators who cross the U.S. borders illegally... Offenders were located in 36 states, but it is clear, that the most of the offenders were located in states with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes first cross the U.S. border illegally... There is a clear pattern of criminal escalation. From misdemeanors such as assault or DUI, to drug offenses, illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes break U.S. laws repeatedly... Their attacks are particularly brutal, and they use a hands-on method of controlling and/or killing their victims."
2006, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin - Criminal Profiler and Founder of the Violent Crimes Institute
In the [2005 U.S. Justice Department] population study of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien."
"Defendants charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies. All of these crimes would have never happened, i.e. they were preventable, has [sic] we had a serious program of deportation of the illegal aliens already here and proper border security to prevent both entry and re-entry... To get the full extent of the collateral damage, we need to apply the average number of offenses across all 267,000 currently incarcerated illegal alien criminals. Doing so results in 1,288,619 crimes!
Don’t let the mainstream media and illegal alien advocates tell you that illegal immigration is a 'victimless crime' and that they are here only to do the work Americans don’t want to do. Since each crime has a victim, 1,288,619 sounds like a lot of victimization to us. Also keep in mind that the 1,288,619 crimes are only the ones committed by the hard core illegal alien criminals who were finally caught and incarcerated. The ones not caught and the new criminals crossing daily are committing more crime each and every day."
02/16/07, Family Security Matters
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported more than 186,600 illegal aliens in 2006.
57% of the unauthorized population in 2006 was from Mexico; 12% from El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil, and Honduras; 10% from India, Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philipines; while 21% were from all other countries.
As of 2006, California contained 24% of the total illegal alien population. Texas had 14%, Florida 8%, New York 5%, and Illinois 5%.
2005-2006 population studies indicated that unauthorized immigrants work in the following industries: service occupations (32%); construction and extractive jobs (19%); production, installation and repair (15%); sales and administrative (12%); management, business, and professional (10%); and farming (4%).
40 tunnels and subterranean passages have been discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border from Sep. 11, 2001 to Mar. 16, 2006.
Polar bears are left handed
An estimated 3.1 million American citizen children have at least one illegal alien parent.
Being an undocumented alien in the U.S. is a civil offense, not a felony or a misdemeanor.
The first major U.S. immigration curtailment was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Immigration Act.
The estimated fiscal cost of those illegal aliens to the federal, state and local governments was about $33 billion. This impact was partially offset by an estimated $12.6 billion in taxes paid to the federal, state and local governments, resulting in a net cost to the American taxpayer of about $20 billion every year."
Feb. 2004, Federation for American Immigration Reform
"The criminal alien problem is growing. Criminal aliens—non-citizens who commit crimes—are a growing threat to public safety and national security, as well as a drain on our scarce criminal justice resources. In 1980, our federal and state prisons housed fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. By the end of 1999, these same prisons housed over 68,000 criminal aliens. Today, criminal aliens account for over 29 percent of prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and a higher share of all federal prison inmates. These prisoners represent the fastest growing segment of the federal prison population.
Over the past five years, an average of more than 72,000 aliens have been arrested annually on drug charges alone. New issue paper... Among the alien federal prisoners, over half (55 percent) were illegally in the United States at the time of their conviction. Administering justice to criminal aliens costs the taxpayer dearly. Incarceration of criminal aliens cost an estimated $624 million to state prisons (1999) and $891 million to federal prisons (2002), according to the most recent available figure from the Bureau of Justice Statistics."
07/10/07, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
"On the state level, the Minnesota Department of Corrections estimates that it cost approximately $14 million in FY 2005 to incarcerate illegal immigrants in Minnesota. Accounting for federal SCAAP payments that reimburse the state for some of these costs, the net total state cost was approximately $12.8 million in FY 2005. The costs have increased 22.3% over the FY01-FY05 period. During this period, the number of incarcerated illegal immigrants increased from 380 in FY 2001 to 501 in FY 2005. The 501 offenders constituted 5.9% of the FY 2005 overall average prison population in the state. In addition, Minnesota received less in federal SCAAP payments in FY 2005 than it did in FY 2001."
12/08/05, Minnesota Department of Administration
"As we have learned here in Colorado in recent months, some of the costs can be elusive. But efforts such as this hearing will help all of us identify and understand the fiscal impacts. In many cases, the states and local governments incur significant costs related to illegal immigration, often due to federal mandates... We are able to identify the impact to our state correctional system for housing illegal immigrants who are convicted of crimes. In Colorado prisons, we are housing over 950 illegal immigrants who, upon release, will be detained by the federal office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for likely deportation. At a cost of nearly $27,000 per prisoner, the annual cost to taxpayers to house these offenders is over $25 million."
Bill Owens, former Governor of the State of Colorado
"After conducting a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders for the time period of January 1999 through April 2006 , it is clear that the U.S. public faces a dangerous threat from sex predators who cross the U.S. borders illegally... Offenders were located in 36 states, but it is clear, that the most of the offenders were located in states with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes first cross the U.S. border illegally... There is a clear pattern of criminal escalation. From misdemeanors such as assault or DUI, to drug offenses, illegal immigrants who commit sex crimes break U.S. laws repeatedly... Their attacks are particularly brutal, and they use a hands-on method of controlling and/or killing their victims."
2006, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin - Criminal Profiler and Founder of the Violent Crimes Institute
In the [2005 U.S. Justice Department] population study of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien."
"Defendants charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies. All of these crimes would have never happened, i.e. they were preventable, has [sic] we had a serious program of deportation of the illegal aliens already here and proper border security to prevent both entry and re-entry... To get the full extent of the collateral damage, we need to apply the average number of offenses across all 267,000 currently incarcerated illegal alien criminals. Doing so results in 1,288,619 crimes!
Don’t let the mainstream media and illegal alien advocates tell you that illegal immigration is a 'victimless crime' and that they are here only to do the work Americans don’t want to do. Since each crime has a victim, 1,288,619 sounds like a lot of victimization to us. Also keep in mind that the 1,288,619 crimes are only the ones committed by the hard core illegal alien criminals who were finally caught and incarcerated. The ones not caught and the new criminals crossing daily are committing more crime each and every day."
02/16/07, Family Security Matters
05/12/08 Did you know...?
Vodka Edition:
Ah vodka, a wonderful drink that comes in many forms and flavors, we all know you can get trashed off it but did you know you can also do the following with it:
people have reported that if they immediately pour vodka over an area that has contacted poison ivy, the alcohol will wash away the culprit urushiol oil (has been said that the vodka needs to be at least 100 proof to work)
Vodka kills odor-causing bacteria, but doesn't leave a scent when dry so you can use it to keep your clothes smelling fresher. Simply spritz your duds with the stuff, then hang to dry in a well-ventilated area.
It's easy to get your chrome, glass and porcelain fixtures shining moisten a soft, clean cloth with vodka, then apply a little elbow grease.
Add a few drops of vodka and a teaspoon of sugar to the water in your flower vase. It should help keep your flowers fresh longer. Change out the mixture with fresh ingredients daily.
Who knew that vodka can kill pesky insects, Pour a little of the saucy spirit in a spray bottle and squirt on the little buggers, or yourself as a repellent.
Vodka can also disinfect and alleviate some of the bite of a jellyfish sting
Try this remedy for healthier, lush hair: Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo.
Got mold? Try filling a spray bottle with some bottom-shelf vodka. Spritz on, then let sit for 15 minutes. Scrub away
Fill a clean glass jar with fresh lavender flowers, then top off with pilsner vodka. Seal the lid tightly and place in the sun for three days
Strain the resulting liquid through a coffee filter, and poof! You have a homemade tincture to rub into aches and pains.
Got a toothache? Try swishing a shot of vodka over the affected area. It can help disinfect, and should numb some of the pain in your gums.
Ah vodka, a wonderful drink that comes in many forms and flavors, we all know you can get trashed off it but did you know you can also do the following with it:
people have reported that if they immediately pour vodka over an area that has contacted poison ivy, the alcohol will wash away the culprit urushiol oil (has been said that the vodka needs to be at least 100 proof to work)
Vodka kills odor-causing bacteria, but doesn't leave a scent when dry so you can use it to keep your clothes smelling fresher. Simply spritz your duds with the stuff, then hang to dry in a well-ventilated area.
It's easy to get your chrome, glass and porcelain fixtures shining moisten a soft, clean cloth with vodka, then apply a little elbow grease.
Add a few drops of vodka and a teaspoon of sugar to the water in your flower vase. It should help keep your flowers fresh longer. Change out the mixture with fresh ingredients daily.
Who knew that vodka can kill pesky insects, Pour a little of the saucy spirit in a spray bottle and squirt on the little buggers, or yourself as a repellent.
Vodka can also disinfect and alleviate some of the bite of a jellyfish sting
Try this remedy for healthier, lush hair: Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo.
Got mold? Try filling a spray bottle with some bottom-shelf vodka. Spritz on, then let sit for 15 minutes. Scrub away
Fill a clean glass jar with fresh lavender flowers, then top off with pilsner vodka. Seal the lid tightly and place in the sun for three days
Strain the resulting liquid through a coffee filter, and poof! You have a homemade tincture to rub into aches and pains.
Got a toothache? Try swishing a shot of vodka over the affected area. It can help disinfect, and should numb some of the pain in your gums.
05/01/08 Did you know...?
“Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter “E”.
Bulls are color blind.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
“Babe” was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver’s locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
99,999 digits of pi can be seen at http://www2.gvsu.edu/%7Efeenstrk/pi.html
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can’t walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive
too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 1262 lbs.
A mule won’t sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called “6”.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter “E”.
Bulls are color blind.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
“Babe” was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
Beaver Cleaver’s locker number is 9.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
99,999 digits of pi can be seen at http://www2.gvsu.edu/%7Efeenstrk/pi.html
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can’t walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive
too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 1262 lbs.
A mule won’t sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called “6”.
04/17/08 Did you know...?
The Door Close button is there mostly to give passengers the illusion of control. In elevators built since the early '90s. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority.
The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.
Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators. There are twenty times more elevators than escalators, but only 1/3 more accidents.
Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the U.S. There are 26 car deaths every five hours.
Most people who die in elevators are elevator technicians.
The Otis Elevator Company carries the equivalent of the world's population in their elevators every five days.
The New York Marriott was the first to introduce a smart elevator system that assigned passengers to elevators depending on what floor they were heading to.
Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.
The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.
Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.
The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that — myth. You can't jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn't know when to jump.
Due to the laws of physics, elevators can't be any taller than 1700 feet. Hoist ropes become too heavy after that, snapping at 3200 feet.
The only known occurence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.
Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators. There are twenty times more elevators than escalators, but only 1/3 more accidents.
Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the U.S. There are 26 car deaths every five hours.
Most people who die in elevators are elevator technicians.
The Otis Elevator Company carries the equivalent of the world's population in their elevators every five days.
The New York Marriott was the first to introduce a smart elevator system that assigned passengers to elevators depending on what floor they were heading to.
Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.
The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.
Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.
The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that — myth. You can't jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn't know when to jump.
Due to the laws of physics, elevators can't be any taller than 1700 feet. Hoist ropes become too heavy after that, snapping at 3200 feet.
04/10/08 Did you know...?
The universe is beige
Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum", published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.
In a Washington Post article, the color was displayed. Glazebrook jokingly said that he was looking for suggestions for a name for the new color. Several people who read the article sent in suggestions. "Cosmic Latte" was selected.
On the door to Tutankhamen's tomb, so goes the legend, was inscribed a curse: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king..." And in the years hence, it seemed like Tut's mummy was making good on his curse:
On the day the tomb was discovered, Carter's canary, which he had brought with him to Egypt for luck, was devoured by a snake.
A few months later, Carter's financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly, perhaps from an infected insect bite.
When Carnarvon died, all the lights in Cairo went out from a power failure.
Although Carnarvon died in Cairo, back at his estate in England, his favorite dog howled and dropped dead.
When Tut's mummy was unwrapped in 1925, his body bore a wound on his face in the exact same spot as Carnarvon's insect bite.
"By 1929," says Howard Carter and the Curse of the Mummy, "eleven people connected with the discovery of the Tomb had died early and of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury. Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building. He left a note that read, 'I really cannot stand any more horrors and hardly see what good I am going to do here, so I am making my exit.' "
Interestingly, Carter himself did not suffer the wrath of the mummy's curse, but died of natural causes at the age of 66.
Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum", published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.
In a Washington Post article, the color was displayed. Glazebrook jokingly said that he was looking for suggestions for a name for the new color. Several people who read the article sent in suggestions. "Cosmic Latte" was selected.
On the door to Tutankhamen's tomb, so goes the legend, was inscribed a curse: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king..." And in the years hence, it seemed like Tut's mummy was making good on his curse:
On the day the tomb was discovered, Carter's canary, which he had brought with him to Egypt for luck, was devoured by a snake.
A few months later, Carter's financial backer, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly, perhaps from an infected insect bite.
When Carnarvon died, all the lights in Cairo went out from a power failure.
Although Carnarvon died in Cairo, back at his estate in England, his favorite dog howled and dropped dead.
When Tut's mummy was unwrapped in 1925, his body bore a wound on his face in the exact same spot as Carnarvon's insect bite.
"By 1929," says Howard Carter and the Curse of the Mummy, "eleven people connected with the discovery of the Tomb had died early and of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon's relatives, Carter's personal secretary, Richard Bethell, and Bethell's father, Lord Westbury. Westbury killed himself by jumping from a building. He left a note that read, 'I really cannot stand any more horrors and hardly see what good I am going to do here, so I am making my exit.' "
Interestingly, Carter himself did not suffer the wrath of the mummy's curse, but died of natural causes at the age of 66.
04/08/08 Did you know...?
The Moon is moving away from the Earth
The Moon's orbit (its circular path around the Earth) is indeed getting larger, at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters per year. (The Moon's orbit has a radius of 384,000 km.) The reason for the increase is that the Moon raises tides on the Earth. Because the side of the Earth that faces the Moon is closer, it feels a stronger pull of gravity than the center of the Earth. Similarly, the part of the Earth facing away from the Moon feels less gravity than the center of the Earth. This effect stretches the Earth a bit, making it a little bit oblong.
It is expected that in 15 billion years, the orbit will stabilize at 1.6 times its present size, and the Earth day will be 55 days long equal to the time it will take the Moon to orbit the Earth.
Animals can naturally explode
Natural animal explosions can occur for a variety of reasons. On 2004, a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale, measuring 17 meters (56 ft.) long and weighing 50 tons, caused it to burst in Taiwan. The explosion was reported to have splattered blood and whale entrails over surrounding shop-fronts, bystanders, and cars.
A significant population of toads in Germany and Denmark were exploding in April 2005 in an act described as a self-defence mechanism that failed, as it consisted of puffing up to look bigger while under attack by crows.
You can still have an erection once dead
A death erection (sometimes referred to as "angel lust") is a post-mortem erection which occurs when a male individual dies vertically or face-down with the cadaver remaining in this position. During life, the pumping of blood by the heart ensures a relatively even distribution around the blood vessels of the human body. Once this mechanism has ended, only the force of gravity acts upon the blood. As with any mass, the blood settles at the lowest point of the body and causes edema or swelling to occur; the discoloration caused by this is called lividity.
If an individual dies vertically such as in a hanging, the blood will settle in the legs and pool at the feet. The pressure will be greatest as the weight of the blood pushes down. This causes the blood vessels and tissues in the feet to engorge to their greatest elastic capacity and hold the greatest volume of blood possible. This effect occurs right up the legs although to a lesser extent than the feet and is also notable at the waist. The blood which remains in the torso attempts to move to a lower position due to gravity, and as the blood in the waist (which cannot move down due to the legs being full) causes the penis, consisting of erectile tissue, to fill with blood and expand. This is the death erection. As long as the body remains in this position the effect will continue.
The Moon's orbit (its circular path around the Earth) is indeed getting larger, at a rate of about 3.8 centimeters per year. (The Moon's orbit has a radius of 384,000 km.) The reason for the increase is that the Moon raises tides on the Earth. Because the side of the Earth that faces the Moon is closer, it feels a stronger pull of gravity than the center of the Earth. Similarly, the part of the Earth facing away from the Moon feels less gravity than the center of the Earth. This effect stretches the Earth a bit, making it a little bit oblong.
It is expected that in 15 billion years, the orbit will stabilize at 1.6 times its present size, and the Earth day will be 55 days long equal to the time it will take the Moon to orbit the Earth.
Animals can naturally explode
Natural animal explosions can occur for a variety of reasons. On 2004, a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale, measuring 17 meters (56 ft.) long and weighing 50 tons, caused it to burst in Taiwan. The explosion was reported to have splattered blood and whale entrails over surrounding shop-fronts, bystanders, and cars.
A significant population of toads in Germany and Denmark were exploding in April 2005 in an act described as a self-defence mechanism that failed, as it consisted of puffing up to look bigger while under attack by crows.
You can still have an erection once dead
A death erection (sometimes referred to as "angel lust") is a post-mortem erection which occurs when a male individual dies vertically or face-down with the cadaver remaining in this position. During life, the pumping of blood by the heart ensures a relatively even distribution around the blood vessels of the human body. Once this mechanism has ended, only the force of gravity acts upon the blood. As with any mass, the blood settles at the lowest point of the body and causes edema or swelling to occur; the discoloration caused by this is called lividity.
If an individual dies vertically such as in a hanging, the blood will settle in the legs and pool at the feet. The pressure will be greatest as the weight of the blood pushes down. This causes the blood vessels and tissues in the feet to engorge to their greatest elastic capacity and hold the greatest volume of blood possible. This effect occurs right up the legs although to a lesser extent than the feet and is also notable at the waist. The blood which remains in the torso attempts to move to a lower position due to gravity, and as the blood in the waist (which cannot move down due to the legs being full) causes the penis, consisting of erectile tissue, to fill with blood and expand. This is the death erection. As long as the body remains in this position the effect will continue.
03/24/08 Did you know...?
A chicken's top speed is 9 mph.
A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
Lobsters like to eat lobster.
To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000.
Crocodiles can't move their tongues.
Wolves could bark like dogs, they don't because they don't want to.
An adult crocodile can go two years without eating.
A roadrunner purrs when it is content.
A cow has four stomachs.
The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.
Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizzard of Oz.
The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds.
A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.
Both gorillaz and housecats purr.
A hibernating bear can go as long as 6 months without a bathroom break.
The only time a turkey whistles is when it is panicking.
Whales and Buffalos both stampede.
A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
Lobsters like to eat lobster.
To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000.
Crocodiles can't move their tongues.
Wolves could bark like dogs, they don't because they don't want to.
An adult crocodile can go two years without eating.
A roadrunner purrs when it is content.
A cow has four stomachs.
The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.
Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizzard of Oz.
The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds.
A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.
Both gorillaz and housecats purr.
A hibernating bear can go as long as 6 months without a bathroom break.
The only time a turkey whistles is when it is panicking.
Whales and Buffalos both stampede.
02/25/08 Did you know...?
That polar bears are left handed.....
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