- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- 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."
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- "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.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Some Facts ..
Some facts you never wanna know
- For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
- The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
- By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
- The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
- If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
- Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Engineers One liners
- Good engineers are not born, they are Pre-fabricated
- Pi - Gods way of telling you to get a bigger calculator
- Bio-engineers, now everyone gets a drumstick at thanksgiving.
- If God didn't want perfect circles he wouldn't have invented Pi.
- Warning - Inversion intolerant
- Contents liable to Over reaction
- Sorry, I only drink Decalitres
- If found please return to (insert GPS co-ordinates)
- Civil engineers, Lifes way of saying your rubbish at sports.
- I can calculate your interest in me to 9 decimal places
- Could I interest you in my Na2Ca2Al6Si9O30·8(H2O) collection ?
- I prefer the term Bio-culture harvester instead of "Fat"
- (R-CH2OH) fueled love machine
- Opinions crushed while you wait
- Bio-engineers - Life forms created, your place or mine ?
- I came, I saw, I adjusted the azimuth a bit
- I could go on for days ....
- Please remove upon installation
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