Tag: facts
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December 21, 2009 05:24 PM EST --
The Amazing Cucumber
This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their "Spotlight on the Home" series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve . . .
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December 20, 2009 08:47 PM EST --
No particular theme, just some fascinating, er, ahh, different facts for your enjoyment.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world. . . .
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December 20, 2009 02:17 PM EST --
Perhaps you will be able to win a bet or two with these bits of knowledge:
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In the . . .
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February 27, 2009 03:19 AM EST --
1. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
2. Eggplants aren't vegtables they're really fruits.
3. Only one . . .
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December 21, 2009 06:03 AM EST --
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March 11, 2009 01:29 AM EDT --
1. The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.).
2. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
3. The parachute was invented . . .
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December 14, 2008 04:50 AM EST --
1. Winter was a time of celebration to pre-Christian Romans and they decorated fir trees in honor of this seasonal change.
2. The use of a Christmas wreath as a decoration on your front door, mantel . . .
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July 13, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (This applies to most of my friends, as well.)
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all . . .
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March 07, 2009 02:16 AM EST --
1. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
2. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. (poor birds)
3. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
4. Until . . .
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March 08, 2009 11:40 PM EDT --
1. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
2. A snail can sleep for three years.
3. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
4. The average person who stops smoking requires . . .
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March 14, 2009 02:59 AM EDT --
1. If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
2. The strongest human bite force ever recorded: 350 pounds. The strongest shark bite force ever recorded: 132 pounds.
3. Car accidents . . .
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July 01, 2007 04:03 PM EDT --
Startling is the only 9-letter word in the English language which, if you remove one letter, will result in a real English word, which, if you remove one letter, will result in another real English word, . . .
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May 14, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, Facts."
My mother's cousin made this demand with her pencil poised to record the facts of WWII. I glanced to the hospital bed where my once giant grandfather . . .
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October 05, 2009 05:01 AM EDT --
There was a post yesterday about why people post political posts here on Gather. The poster was asking why if all that's going to happen is that those who agree are going to cheer and those who disagree . . .
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April 03, 2009 05:16 PM EDT --
This is a really neat website. You can enter the year you were born and get all sorts of interesting information.
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
This is some of what . . .
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January 10, 2009 02:02 AM EST --
Alcohol Trivia
President Lyndon B. Johnson's favorite drink may have been scotch and soda. He would ride around his Texas ranch in an open convertible in hot weather. He drank his "scotch . . .
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July 13, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
A cumberbun is to be worn with the pleats pointing up. Supposely this is effective for catching crumbs at dinner.
Angora wool comes from rabbits, not sheep.
There is no such things as naturally blue . . .
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December 01, 2007 04:46 PM EST --
I found this on strangefacts.com..... too funny
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms . . .
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December 21, 2007 02:24 PM EST --
Plants run fevers when they are sick.
The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, hated having his picture taken.
Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.
Alaxender Graham Bell would . . .
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November 27, 2008 02:02 AM EST --
1. Turkeys can have heart attacks: turkeys in fields near the Air Force test areas over which the sound barrier was broken were known to drop dead from the shock of passing jets.
2. Turkeys have . . .
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