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9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
A baby in Florida, America was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. Only in America.
A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.
A nihilist believes in nothing.
A notaphile collects bank notes.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
According to ancient chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.
Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
The Californian state of America has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in America. No surprise there.
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper.
Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. So a lot of films are wrong!
Rice paper does not have rice in it.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
Someone within 200 miles of every town in America claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
Students at colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.
That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.
The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The average web page contains 500 words.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, U.S.S.R., in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.
The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Our UK is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Phillipines, with an enrollment of 25,000. Wow, my school has less than 1,000 students!
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.
The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.
The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.
The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall. (Even smaller than Mini Me!)
The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm
The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
The University of Calgary (in Canada) offers a two-day course in igloo building.
The Victoria Cross is our highest military decoration.
The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1996
The World Trade Center in New York had 43,600 windows.
The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.
The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
More to come as I do more research.
9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
A baby in Florida, America was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. Only in America.
A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.
A nihilist believes in nothing.
A notaphile collects bank notes.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
According to ancient chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.
Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
The Californian state of America has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in America. No surprise there.
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper.
Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. So a lot of films are wrong!
Rice paper does not have rice in it.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
Someone within 200 miles of every town in America claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
Students at colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.
That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.
The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The average web page contains 500 words.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, U.S.S.R., in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.
The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Our UK is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Phillipines, with an enrollment of 25,000. Wow, my school has less than 1,000 students!
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.
The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.
The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.
The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall. (Even smaller than Mini Me!)
The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm
The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
The University of Calgary (in Canada) offers a two-day course in igloo building.
The Victoria Cross is our highest military decoration.
The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1996
The World Trade Center in New York had 43,600 windows.
The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.
The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
More to come as I do more research.
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If you jump every time they say jump in House of Pain's "Jump", you burn enough calories to cover eating 2 dry Ryvita biscuits.
Leftback wrote:
> Mr. Nice Guy wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without
> sleep
is currently 86
> years, with the man never sleeping in
> his
life."
--
Bollix.
My
> thoughts exactly.
I went for 25
> hours without sleep the first time I flyed in an airplane, I was a little
> stoopid with tiredness.
how could anyone go 86 years without sleep.
I've slept about 36 hours without sleep before, but I'm bloody knackered the next day.
I'm quite sure that the guy DID indeed go 86 years without sleep. If you were tired enough and stayed awake, you could die. How about the guy who wrote up his entire life on a typewriter.
Get Up.
Post.
Sleep.
Repeat.
No monkeys were harmed in the making of this post.
MOW
> Mr. Nice Guy wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without
> sleep
is currently 86
> years, with the man never sleeping in
> his
life."
--
Bollix.
My
> thoughts exactly.
I went for 25
> hours without sleep the first time I flyed in an airplane, I was a little
> stoopid with tiredness.
how could anyone go 86 years without sleep.
I've slept about 36 hours without sleep before, but I'm bloody knackered the next day.
I'm quite sure that the guy DID indeed go 86 years without sleep. If you were tired enough and stayed awake, you could die. How about the guy who wrote up his entire life on a typewriter.
Get Up.
Post.
Sleep.
Repeat.
No monkeys were harmed in the making of this post.
MOW
Mr. Nice Guy wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without sleep
is currently 86
> years, with the man never sleeping in his
life."
--
Bollix.
My
> thoughts exactly.
I went for 25 hours without sleep the first time I flyed in an airplane, I was a little stoopid with tiredness.
how could anyone go 86 years without sleep.
> Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without sleep
is currently 86
> years, with the man never sleeping in his
life."
--
Bollix.
My
> thoughts exactly.
I went for 25 hours without sleep the first time I flyed in an airplane, I was a little stoopid with tiredness.
how could anyone go 86 years without sleep.
Mr. Nice Guy wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without sleep
is currently 86
> years, with the man never sleeping in his
life."
--
Bollix.
My
> thoughts exactly.
S'true, I read it in a book. He is in good health with above-average intelligence. If it's in a book, it's got to be true ;)
MOW
> Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without sleep
is currently 86
> years, with the man never sleeping in his
life."
--
Bollix.
My
> thoughts exactly.
S'true, I read it in a book. He is in good health with above-average intelligence. If it's in a book, it's got to be true ;)
MOW
Stryke wrote:
"The world record for time without sleep
is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his
life."
--
Bollix.
My thoughts exactly.
"The world record for time without sleep
is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his
life."
--
Bollix.
My thoughts exactly.
interesting stuff there....
Stryke wrote:
> Monkey Of War wrote:
> "The world record for time without
> sleep
> is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his
>
> life."
--
Bollix.
S'true, I read it in a book. He is in good health with above-average intelligence. If it's in a book, it's got to be true ;)
MOW
> Monkey Of War wrote:
> "The world record for time without
> sleep
> is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his
>
> life."
--
Bollix.
S'true, I read it in a book. He is in good health with above-average intelligence. If it's in a book, it's got to be true ;)
MOW
Monkey Of War wrote:
> "The world record for time without
> sleep is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his
> life."
--
Bollix.
> "The world record for time without
> sleep is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his
> life."
--
Bollix.
I see the little spider in the 1 dollar bill, I haven't found the owl yet though.
Nice little facts there. I know someone that walked up every step of the Eifel Tower. Also, here's a correction:
"The world record for time without sleep is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his life."
MOW
"The world record for time without sleep is currently 86 years, with the man never sleeping in his life."
MOW
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