useless facts
Justa Hillbilly
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it
has a cathedral.
A hydrodaktulpsychicharmonica is a variety of musical glasses.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox car can be flattened into a
sheet the size of a tennis court.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a epithalamium.
Justa Hillbilly
"Merlyne" said....
> > 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong
> cover.
>
> Could be interesting if "The joy of sex" accidently got the cover from a
> bible verses book...
LOL
> > 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
> You mean misspelt?
'Zactly!
> > A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
>
> Ever seen an angry bull?
LMFAO No doubt!
Roger Elizabeth De Bris
The Americans lost the Battle of Bunker Hill when they ran out of gunpowder and
had to retreat.
A pin-up photo of Rita Hayworth adorned the first test atomic bomb dropped on
Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in July 1946.
At the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty
men.
In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
In medieval China, it was not unusual for a mother to breast-feed a child until
the child was seven years old.
In olden days, barbers also performed as surgeons. Bloodletting, a remedy of
the time believed to cure diseases, was one of their main tasks. The
red-and-white striped barber pole originally symbolized a bleeding arm swathed
in bandages.
During the Spanish American War in 1898, there were 45 stars on the American
flag.
During World War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was
execution.
During World War II, bakers in the United States were ordered to stop selling
sliced bread for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves
were made available to the public. It was never explained how this action
helped the war effort.
The British Broadcasting Company played the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth
Symphony in all its broadcasts to Europe during World War II. The familiar
"dah-dah-dah-DAAAAH" opening is the same as Morse code for the letter "v"
(dot-dot-dot-dash) - the symbol adopted for "victory."
The color khaki was first used in the Afghan War in 1880 - the color was
considered good camouflage.
The expression "the whole nine yards" comes from WWII aircraft whose ammunition
belts was 27 feet long. When you used your entire ammo belt on a target, you
exhausted "the whole nine yards."
In the winter of 1724, while on an outing at sea, Peter the Great of Russia
caught sight of a foundering ship, jumped in the water, and helped in the
rescue. He caught cold, suffered from a high fever, and died several weeks
later.
France and Mexico were involved in a yearlong conflict popularly known as the
Pastry War in 1838. Mexico refused to pay for damage done by Mexican army
officers to a restaurant run by a French pasty chef in Tacubaya, now a section
of Mexico City.
The Hessian soldiers hired by the British to fight the colonists during the
Revolutionary War were paid about 25 cents a day.
Long before Detroit became renowned for the production of automobiles, the city
had earned a national reputation for the manufacturing of cigars and chewing
tobacco. Tobacco companies were among the city's leading employers at the turn
of the twentieth century, employing more than 10,000 people. In the mid-1920s,
it was estimated that 210 million cigars and 14 million pounds of chewing
tobacco were produced in Detroit each year.
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
Nearly 87 percent of 103 people polled in 1977 were unable to identify
correctly an unlabeled copy of the Declaration of Independence. (The poll was
conducted at a shopping area in Fort Lauderdale, Florida).
The last person to be guillotined in France, Hamida Djandoubi, was
executed in 1977.
New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1893.
The name of the Pilgrim's second ship that was to accompany the Mayflower to
the New World was the Speedwell. It had to turn back because it wasn't
seaworthy.
The United States in World War II used the Navajo Indian language successfully
as a code.
Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its
independence from Mother England - full six months before the Declaration of
Independence was signed.
The official time ball for the U.S. is on top of the U.S. Naval Observatory in
Washington, D.C. As early as 1845, the U.S. Navy dropped a time ball every day
at noon from atop a building on a hill overlooking Washington, D.C. People from
many miles away could set their watches at noon. Ships anchored in the Potomac
River could check their chronometers.
Ohio, commonly know as the seventeenth state, technically did not
become a state until August 7, 1953. Due to an oversight, Congress never voted
on the resolution to admit Ohio to the Union until that date.
In 1871, Queen Victoria and the people of Britain shipped cartons of books to
the city of Chicago. English novelist Thomas Hughes helped organize the books,
which were the basis of the city's first library.
In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach.
They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.
The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is treason - Article III,
Section 3.
The pinball machine was one of the few successful industries that grew out of
the Depression in the United States. The early models typically charged 5 cents
for 10 balls, did not have side flippers, and the player had to add up his own
score. Because it offered inexpensive and interactive entertainment value, the
pinball machine remained popular for decades, until the advent of
electronic video games.
On May 16, 1991, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch in
history to address Congress during her U.S. tour.
The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols.
Only eight men were killed in the Battle of Lexington.
The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Parties at the White House during President Herbert Hoover's term were big
events. As many as 4,000 invitations to a gala would be loaded on trucks and
hand delivered around Washington, D.C.
The tax imposed on tea that triggered the infamous Boston Tea Party in 1773 was
3 cents per pound.
Philadelphia was second only to London as the largest English-speaking City in
the world.
Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Annapolis, Princeton, Trenton, and
New York City were the cities serving as the seat of government for the
fledgling United States of America before Washington, D.C. became the nation's
permanent capital in December 1800.
Piercing nipples with rings and the like is not a new punk fad. It was popular
among ladies in the late 1800s.
Poland was the dominant power in Eastern Europe from the fourteenth to the
seventeenth century.
1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and
rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible
will be 6009!
According to Douglas Adams, a Salween is the faint taste of dishwashing
liquid in a cup of fresh tea.
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
All Hebrew originating names that end with the letters el have something to
do with God.
Alma mater means bountiful mother.
Amphibious is based upon Greek words that mean living a double life and
amphibians live in both land and water.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of
your mouth.
Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecphobia, the fear of the number 13. He
died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham University.
Before the turn of the century, the papers were called Tabloids,
Chronicles, Gazettes, etc. Most had local stories and far away stories were
quite old as it took awhile for stories to travel ( and of course they were
subject to changes from hand to hand. With the event of the teletype,
stories could be broadcast all over at unheard of speed. Several of the
papers started carrying a section with stories from all over - North, East,
West, & South and that's why they are called Newspapers.
Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive
double letters.
Chevrolet tried marketing a Chevrolet Nova in Spanish speaking countries -
it didn't sell well because NOVA means "doesn't go" in Spanish.
Clans long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them use to burn down their houses--hence the expression get fired.
Claustrophobia is the fear of small spaces.
Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA level C.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Corduroy comes from the French, cord du roi or cloth of the king.
Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate.
Dendrology is the study of trees.
Dibble means to drink like a duck.
Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it would rhyme with rejoice.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters m and t.
During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red
Vineyard at Arles.
Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off his left ear. His Self-portrait with
the Bandaged Ear shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror
image.
EEG stands for Electroencephalogram.
EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments'.
Entomophobia is the fear of insects.
Eosophobia is the fear of dawn.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel Gatsby without any word
containing "e."
Ever wonder where the phrase two bits came from? Some coins used in the
American colonies before the Revolutionary War were Spanish dollars, which
could be cut into pieces, or bits. Since two pieces equaled one-fourth
dollar, the expression two bits came into being as a name for 25 cents.
Ever wonder where the term Work Smarter...Not Harder originated? Allan F.
Mogensen, the creator of Work Simplification, coined the phrase in the
1930's. The 1990's equivalent term is probably Business Process
Reengineering.
Every minute 47 bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning containing arsenic.
For much of the way, the Lewis and Clark expedition was led by a woman,
Sacagawea, a Shoshone Indian. That's where that saying came from... Behind
every successful man, there is a woman with a road map.
Forget-me-not: According to German legend this flower gets its name from
the last words of a knight, who was drowned while trying to pick some from the
riverside for his lady.
Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet
and Macbeth.
Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he
had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the
postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the
name of the country of origin. However, every stamp carries a relief image
or a silhouette of the monarch's head instead.
Groaking is to watch people eating in hopes that they will offer you some.
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 fists).
Happy as a clam is from the expression happy as a clam at high tide. Clams
are only harvested when the tide is out.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word seppuku which
means, literally, belly splitting.
Hawaiian words do not contain consonant clusters. For example, Kahlua is
not a hawaiian word.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest
anagrams.
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If each count were one second long, it would take about twelve days to
count to a million and thirty-two years to count to a billion.
If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge
in the background.
Ignoramus: The grand jury used to write ignoramus on the back of
indictments not found or not to be sent to court. This was often
constructed as an indication of the stupidity of the jury, hence its
present meaning.
In England, in the 1880's pants was considered a dirty word.
In English, four is the only digit that has the same number of letters as
its value.
In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into
Schweppes Toilet Water.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is
10:10.
In Papua New Guinea, there are villages within five miles of each other
which speak different languages.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would
pronounce it 'Bitch.'
In the Philippines, MABUHAY means Hello.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James
Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the
first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is impossible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning'
refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused
by that process.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, before there were jets.
Karoke means empty orchestra in Japanese.
Kemo Sabe means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
Naked means to be unprotected-Nude means unclothed.
Polish is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is
changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality.
Quisling is the only word in the English language to start with quis.
Race car is a palindrome.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only The left hand.
Strange-but-real college courses offered: advanced cereal science, amusement
park administration, clay wheel throwing, fatherhood & soil judging.
The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator.
The infinity character on the keyboard is called a lemniscate.
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers
and compline.
The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague.
Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around
the rosey...), these sores would smell very badly so common folk would put
flowers on their bodies somewhere(inconspicuously), so that it would cover the
smell of the sores (....pocket full of poseys..), People who died from the
plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the
disease (...ashes, ashes we all fall down!).
THE PRACTICIONER, a British medical journal, has determined that bird-
watching may be hazardous to your health. The magazine, in fact, has
officially designated bird-watching a hazardous hobby, after documenting
the death of a weekend bird-watcher who became so immersed in his subject that
he grew oblivious to his surroundings and consequently was eaten by a
crocodile.
The slang word crap comes from T. Crapper, the man who invented the modern
toilet.
Three dog night (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on
especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs to keep from
freezing.
Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends
with the letters und.
Zorro means fox in Spanish.
53,312 inmate lawsuits were filed nationwide in 1995.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not
inside the house.
According to British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a
capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in
every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
In a tradition dating to the begining of the Westminster system of
government, the bench in the middle of a Westminster parliarment is two and a
half sword lengths long. This was so the government and oppositon
couldn't have a go at each other if it all got a bit heated
In Alaska it is illegal to shoot at a moose from the window of an aeroplane
or other flying vehicle.
In Baltimore, it is illegal to wash or scrub a sink regardless of how
dirty it is.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In England during Queen Victoria's reign, it was illegal to be a homosexual
but not a lesbian. The reason being that when the Queen was approving the
law she wouldn't believe that women would do that.
In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on
Sundays.
In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or
wood.
In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of a
private home.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
In Texas, it is illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
In the UK, there is no act of parliament making it illegal to commit
murder. Murder is only illegal due to legal precedent.
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.
It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a
man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight
rates.
Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
3,000 teens start smoking a day.
314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1995.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells
all while you have been reading this sentence.
75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
A 5ft 5 inch tall 27-year old woman weighing 374 pounds outflabbed 1,000
competitors to win the title of fattest woman in China. Her prize - a
supply of diet food.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.
A lifetime supply of all the vitamins you need weighs only about eight
ounces.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
A new born baby breathes five times faster than an adult man.
A noisy restaurant is 100,000 times as loud as a watch ticking. Rock
concert is 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000.
Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000.
A pack-day smoker will approx. lose 2 teeth every ten years.
A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb.
A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if
a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste
buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and
the salt is dissolved, a definite taste sensation results.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few
weeks.
A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
About one third of American adults are at least 20 percent above their
recommended weight.
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can
press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front
of the flap of the ear.
After 27 years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flinstone Vitamin in 1996.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to
the feet, and leaves the same way it came--head to toe.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Bernard Clemmens of London managed to sustain a fart for an officially
recorded time of 2 mins 42 seconds.
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for a paint.
Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems
than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand.
Canada declared national beauty contests canceled as of 1992, claiming they
were degrading to women.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster
than the rest of us.
Children grow faster in the springtime than they do the rest of the year.
Devoid of its cells and proteins, human blood has the same general makeup
as seawater.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
During a lifetime, one person generates more than 1,000 pounds of red blood
cells.
During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.
Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every two thousand frowns create one wrinkle.
Experiments conducted in Germany and at the University of Southampton in
England show that even mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the
eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and
others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by noise. The
sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Fluoridated toothpaste came about as the result of a discovery made in
Naples, Italy in 1802, when local dentists noticed yellowish-brown spots on
their patient's teeth - but no cavities. Subsequent examination revealed
that high levels of fluoride in the water caused the spots and prevented
tooth decay, and that less fluoride protected teeth without causing the
spots. It took a while for the discovery to be implemented; the first U.S.
fluoridated water tests didn't take place until 1915, and Crest, the first
toothpaste with fluoride in it didn't hit stores until 1956.
Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Half of all people who have ever smoked have now quit.
Hay fever is the sixth most prevalent chronic condition in the United
States.
Heroin is derived from the opium poppy, Papaver Somniferum, which means the
poppy that brings sleep.
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its journey through the
arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back through the venules and
veins.
Humans are the only primates that do not have pigment in the palms of their
hands.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon
dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the
force it would be capable of producing is about 2,000 tonnes.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create an atomic bomb.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision,
but all your sense of depth.
If you have a tapeworm in your stomach, it will come up while you're asleep
to lick the salt off your lips.
If you lock you knees while standing long enough, you will pass out.
If you suffer from polythelia, you have three nipples.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because
there's no air pressure.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon wil
be about three statute miles away.
If your mouth were completely dry, you wouldn't be able to taste anything.
In a lifetime, we replace our skin approximately 1000 times.
In Michagan, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
Ingrown toe nails are hereditary.
It's impossible to have grey eyes.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Just a moderate sunburn can cause such damage to the blood vessels that it
takes three to ten months for them to return to their normal condition.
Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830's it
was sold as Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato.
Most humans can guess someone's sex with 95 percent accuracy just by
smelling their breath.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Smelling bananas or green apples can help you lose weight.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth
everyday.
99% of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun.
A person from Glasgow is called a Glaswegian.
A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000
gallons of moisture.
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to
a high official.
Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development,
India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in
the early 17th century.
American astronauts must be under 6 feet.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 3,212 feet
(979 m).
Antarctica has no native population.
Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea
level.
Antarctica's residents are scientific and support staffs who usually stay
no more than a year at a time.
Approximately 1/3 of the Earth's land surface is desert.
At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.
Australia is the richest source of mineral sands in the world.
Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto was closer to the sun than
Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999.
Because of heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled
vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.
Because of the salt content of the Dead Sea, it is difficult to dive below
its surface.
Bird droppings are chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western
Pacific.
Britain's shortest river is the Brun which runs through Burnley in
Lancashire.
China's largest city is Shanghai.
City with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
Cyprus has a map on its flag.
Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family
names.
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their
flags.
England is smaller than New England.
Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches.
French speaking residents of Belgium are called Walloons.
If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a
depth of 12,000 feet.
If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there
were 1,800 of them in China.
If you travel across the Russia, you will cross seven time zones.
In 1825, Upper Peru became Bolivia.
In 1845, ice shipped to Tallahassee cost $1 per pound.
In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.
In 1990, Engineers digging a railway tunnel under the English Channel broke
through the last dividing rock and joined Britain to mainland Europe for
the first time since the Ice Age.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their
finals.
In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks.
In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-
the-Pooh.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In France, there's a place called Y.
In May 1948, Mt. Ruapehu and Mt. Ngauruhoe, both in New Zealand, erupted
simultaneously.
In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow.
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a
cigarette.
In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.
In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.
In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the Zone of
Silence. You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say
fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island only if
it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
Kilauea (in Hawaii) is generally regarded as the world's most active
volcano.
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system. All the moons of
the solar system are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the
moons of Uranus which are named after Shakesperean characters.
There is a city called Rome in every continent.
$203 million is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
$26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20
years.
277 medical institutions in the United States operate an organ transplant
program.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it
expects what never was and never will be." (Jefferson, 1816)
Regards,
Tom
Justa Hillbilly
"Roger Elizabeth De Bris" said....
> In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
Can that work today I wonder?
I wonder what kinda salt?
> Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.
It's good to be queen.
> The only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution is treason - Article III,
> Section 3.
Gotta love the US....NOT!
> Piercing nipples with rings and the like is not a new punk fad. It was
popular
> among ladies in the late 1800s.
Cool! but it would hurt like helll.......no thankys!
> 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and
> rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible
> will be 6009!
That's a neat bit of info....;-)
> According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
Well of course...
> Dibble means to drink like a duck.
Ducks are cool;-)
> Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
Wow I didn't know that!
> Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it would rhyme with rejoice.
Really?? Hmmmm
> Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters m and t.
Dreaming will get you no where....
> Forget-me-not: According to German legend this flower gets its name from
> the last words of a knight, who was drowned while trying to pick some from
the
> riverside for his lady.
How sweet ;`-)
> In England, in the 1880's pants was considered a dirty word.
LMAO Reminds me of Suzie.
> In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is
> 10:10.
I have heard the reasoning for this but I cannot think of it right now to
save my life....
altho I wouldn't want it saved, but anyways....
> Naked means to be unprotected-Nude means unclothed.
*is terribly naked*
> Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
There are a buncha bunnies in my yard....heheh they are so cute....
> In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 km of
a
> private home.
You hear that Cow??? LOL
> A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
Oh and that makes it a person?
> A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
> Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few
> weeks.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
I can do this! 10 days huh.....
> About one third of American adults are at least 20 percent above their
> recommended weight.
America is the fattest nation......buncha fuckin pigs we are....
> If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon
> dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
hmmmmm
> If you lock you knees while standing long enough, you will pass out.
BTDT.
> In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears
flow.
I bet I could.....
wanna bet??????
Sally
This part is wrong. Read Fluoridation 101
(http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof) and find out why, when they
discovered calcium fluoride in drinking water reduced decay,
over-zealous dentists believed erroneously that it was the fluoride
part that reduced decay when, actually, it was the calcium.
Nonetheless, these PR dentist smartees got us all fluoridated anyway.
We would have been bettered served to be calcidated.
Amazing how the media and legislators trust those drill, fill and bill
guys in the white coats.
marika
>
> In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
I cannot believe I made it....
> According to British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a
> capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
do not eat table salt in England
>
> If you have a tapeworm in your stomach, it will come up while you're asleep
> to lick the salt off your lips.
>
so eat a pound of salt so that you have no nighttime visitors!
>
> Because of the salt content of the Dead Sea, it is difficult to dive below
> its surface.
>
mortality rate?
>
> If you travel across the Russia, you will cross seven time zones.
cool
does anyone else know anyone who dated Irra Einhorn
--
mk5000
"Basically, a tone is a very loud signal - much louder than the
regular voice signal on the line. The engine tries to adapt to it and
perhaps enters invalid values in the adaptation files. This is clearly
a bug. It is also a misguided feature (uncontrollable automatic
adaptation for the duration of the recognition - it has to be
controlled somehow!)."--alexander nickolov
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