Fun facts about anything

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:19 pm

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - which crossing Chesapeake near its mouth, at Norfolk, Virginia - uses a combination of bridge spans and tunnels. Manmade islands allow the roadway to enter the tunnels beneath the Bay's shipping channels.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:54 pm

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:53 pm

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:00 am

A Hawaiian stamp of 1851 with a face value of 2 cents was the sole reason Gaston Leroux, a Parisian philatelist, murdered its owner, Hector Giroux.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:17 am

The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - "As Good As It Gets", is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop".

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:25 pm

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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Did you know...the history of Labor Day goes back more than 100 years?

While there's still a lot of uncertainty about the original founder of Labor Day, we do know the city of New York celebrated the first Labor Day holiday on Tuesday, September 5, 1882. The Central Labor Union put it on.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:17 am

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:29 pm

On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:35 pm

In Dante's "Inferno" the Ninth Circle of Hell is reserved for those who betray family or country. The denizens of this deepest circle, who are frozen in ice, include Judas (betrayer of Christ) and Cassius and Brutus (betrayers of Julius Caesar).

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:08 am

Not all Golf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. There are also all different kinds of dimple patterns.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:19 pm

A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:14 am

In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar) must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:37 am

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:23 am

A black cow is a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. The term dates from the Roaring Twenties, although it also came to be used to describe a root beer float. Another term for a black cow was a mud fizz.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:56 am

Two out of three people sleep on their sides, and they're about equally divided as to WHICH side. Of the remainder, slightly more sleep on their stomachs than sleep on their backs.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:51 am

A couple robbing a store caught on camera could not be identified until the police reviewed the security tape. The woman filled out an entry form for a free trip prior to robbing the store.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:42 am

No automobile made after 1924 should be designated as antique.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:43 am

Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 - as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halves of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar).

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:30 pm

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:51 pm

15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:56 pm

Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:56 am

The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:24 pm

The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.

Subject: Re: Fun facts about anything Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:45 pm

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.