Jack Aubrey Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 The first home microwave was introduced in 1952. It cost $1,295. In 1991, the average bra size in the U.S. was 34B. Today, it's 36C. Yelling for eight years, seven months and six days produces enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. One in five snake-bite victims is tattooed. One in three is drunk. Most toilets flush in E flat. 46 percent of the grades given out at Harvard are A's. The average elephant weighsless than a blue whale's tongue. Moscow is building a monument to processed cheese. An atomic bomb accidentally fell from a U.S. plane over New Mexico in 1957. It left a crater but did not detonate. In the time it takes to read this item, you'll lose 3 million blood cells and make 3 million more. An edible sea snail is called a "winkle." In Oklahoma, you can be fined for making funny faces at dogs. If you took all the Barbie dolls sold since 1959 and placed them head to toe, they would circle the Earth more than three times. A day on Mercury is twice as long as a year on Mercury. Bozo the Clown wore size 83AAA shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 "A day on Mercury is twice as long as a year on Mercury." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ES-335 Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Oct 20 2004, 10:23 AM) "A day on Mercury is twice as long as a year on Mercury." I guess it takes twice as much time to rotate on its axis as it takes to cirle the Sun I like the one about making funy faces at dogs. HA HA ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Did you know mincemeat has no meat in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ES-335 Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Oct 20 2004, 10:34 AM) Did you know mincemeat has no meat in it? Does it have Mince in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Notorious B.S.G. Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Oct 20 2004, 11:16 AM) In 1991, the average bra size in the U.S. was 34B. Today, it's 36C. (Did I ever imply I was NOT a dog?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 How about the fact that, in 1972, a UN Comission that all the Tea in China weighed 356,000 tons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Long Island Iced-Tea has no iced-tea in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madra sneachta Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Oct 20 2004, 04:16 PM) Most toilets flush in E flat. Some researchers have way too much time on their hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Notorious B.S.G. Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Oct 20 2004, 11:16 AM) One in five snake-bite victims is tattooed. One in three is drunk. How many are rednecks whose last words are "now watch me stomp this sucker flat?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 QUOTE (BSG @ Oct 20 2004, 11:04 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Oct 20 2004, 11:16 AM) One in five snake-bite victims is tattooed. One in three is drunk. How many are rednecks whose last words are "now watch me stomp this sucker flat?" Close. The average redneck's last words are usually: "Hey, somebody hold my beer and watch this!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 (edited) I've got a useful fact. Right now my feet stink. BLAHHH Edited October 21, 2004 by Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 QUOTE (Moonraker @ Oct 20 2004, 11:19 PM) I've got a useful fact. Right now my feet stink. BLAHHH I know a cure. Go for a shower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midway Hawker Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 (edited) QUOTE (madra sneachta @ Oct 20 2004, 05:24 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Oct 20 2004, 04:16 PM) Most toilets flush in E flat. Some researchers have way too much time on their hands I just had this image of a a guy in a white lab coat flushing a toilet while holding a recording device over the bowl. Edited October 21, 2004 by Earthshine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 QUOTE (Earthshine @ Oct 21 2004, 07:01 PM) QUOTE (madra sneachta @ Oct 20 2004, 05:24 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Oct 20 2004, 04:16 PM) Most toilets flush in E flat. Some researchers have way too much time on their hands I just had this image of a a guy in a white lab coat flushing a toilet while holding a recording device over the bowl. Thomas Crapper must be turning in his grave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pags Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 A duck's quack has virtually no echo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 If it weren't for food colouring, Coke would be green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Mincemeat has no meat in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted May 22, 2005 Author Share Posted May 22, 2005 Strange facts part II: The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." Camel's milk does not curdle. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. All porcupines float in water. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. Non-dairy creamer is flammable. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie", thus the name of the Don McLean song. When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 hildren. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life." "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep. The term "three dog night"(attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs(dingos, actually) to keep from freezing. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside, they would crack and break off, thus the saying. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted May 22, 2005 Author Share Posted May 22, 2005 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Oct 21 2004, 03:33 PM) If it weren't for food colouring, Coke would be green. Myth. Click here for the straight dope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted May 22, 2005 Author Share Posted May 22, 2005 QUOTE (paganoman @ Oct 21 2004, 03:25 PM) A duck's quack has virtually no echo. Also a myth. Click here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 The number 8 is good luck in chinese because it rhymes with the word "happy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-13 Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ May 22 2005, 01:58 PM) The number 8 is good luck in chinese because it rhymes with the word "happy" really? cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 QUOTE (D-13 @ May 22 2005, 05:31 PM) QUOTE (barney_rebel @ May 22 2005, 01:58 PM) The number 8 is good luck in chinese because it rhymes with the word "happy" really? cool! Yup - the number 4 is bad luck because if pronounced in a certain accent it means "to die". Silly, but true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaWanna Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 A Fresh Cranberry Can bounce like a rubber ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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