Fun Facts!

[SDsalsaguy]

You may not have known…

Coconuts kill more people than sharks do! :shock:

Each year there are around 150 coconut related deaths…and there are less than 10 shark related deaths each year.

[Swing Kitten]

and I hope we can all learn a lesson form this ;)

[Sarah]

and I hope we can all learn a lesson form this ;)

Don't swim with coconuts?
It's safer to sleep under a shark tree?

Cheers
Sarah <perplexed>

[SDsalsaguy]

Watch out for falling coconuts!!! :shock:

Vaguely leading to the next item you may not have known…

In a storm, turkeys like to look up. The only problem is, this causes some of them to drown due to the location of their nostrils. :shock:

[SDsalsaguy]

Yet one more, random fact you may not have known...

Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

[SDsalsaguy]

Here's one more for the "you may not have known" files... (and yes, this post should be linked to both the procrastination and IRU threads)...

Yo-Yos originated in the Philippines, during the sixteenth century, to be used as weapons! :shock:

[SDsalsaguy]

Hmmm, what are these about? :?

One in three snakebite victims is drunk. One in five is tattooed.

[SDsalsaguy]

Bet you didn't know this one either...

President James Garfield had a wonderfully talent. Being ambidextrous, he could write in both Latin and Greek simultaneously! :shock:

[SDsalsaguy]

One more fun fact...

More people walk to work in Alska than in any other state! :shock:

[borikensalsero]

There are 9 tons of garbage in mount everst...

[SDsalsaguy]

The first country to recognize the United States of America as a country was Croatia in 1776.

[dancersdreamland]

Are you watching Jeapordy or something? Tons of useless trivia...

They are pretty interesting though! :wink:

[Spitfire]

Comparisons between presidents Lincoln and Kennedy:

http://www.highrock.com/commentary/lincolnkennedy/

[SDsalsaguy]

Are you watching Jeapordy or something? Tons of useless trivia...

They are pretty interesting though! :wink:
Nope, no Jeopardy for me! Just sharing some of the various random trivia I've accumulated... G-d knows how and/or why! :lol:

And, for my next such miscellaneous fact...

More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year! :shock:

[Spitfire]

Count Dracula was actually based on a real life prince of the same name. For pure horror the one in fiction doesn't compare to the real life historical figure.

[SDsalsaguy]

One of every four Americans has appeared on television at some time! :shock:

[SDsalsaguy]

The pitcher who thre Babe Ruth's very last home run and Joe Dimaggio's very first was the same person, Guy Bush, a.k.a. "Mississippi Mudcat."

[Danish Guy]

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

[Spitfire]

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Just ask the people who live in the same area as my sister; they were hit by one of the largest fires last year. Thank god it did not actually go into the town.

[dancergal]

One of every four Americans has appeared on television at some time! :shock:

I was on the 11 o'clock news once for maybe 5 seconds. :D A friend taped it for me. I was dancing, of course!

[SDsalsaguy]

André-Jacques Garnerin was the first person to successfully do a parachute drop. He did this in 1979 in Paris, France.

I guess someone had to be the first to succeed… :shock:

[Spitfire]

André-Jacques Garnerin was the first person to successfully do a parachute drop. He did this in 1979 in Paris, France.

I guess someone had to be the first to succeed… :shock:

1979?

[SDsalsaguy]

André-Jacques Garnerin was the first person to successfully do a parachute drop. He did this in 1979 in Paris, France.

I guess someone had to be the first to succeed… :shock:

1979?
Oops! :shock: My bad!!! Make that 1797! This error does, however, clearly ad much to our understanding of various learning problems since grading too many student exams (what I was doing last night) clearly leads to episodic dyslexia! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Dyslexic's of the world, untie :!:

[SDsalsaguy]

One more for the fun facts file...

In Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid...which is Disney spelled backwards.

[Danish Guy]

In Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid...which is Disney spelled backwards.

There are a lot of Easter eggs like this.

In 2001 The Space Odyssey, the computer is named H.A.L.

This is the letters I.B.M. shifted a place left in the alphabet.

[SDsalsaguy]

An old law in Bellingham, WA (U.S.A.), made it illegal fo a woman to take more then three steps, in a row, backwards while dancing! :shock:

[Spitfire]

In Mayer, Arizona there still is a law left over from frontier period forbidding the riding of a horse while intoxicated. Someone was actually convicted of this about 15 years ago.

[SDsalsaguy]

In Mayer, Arizona there still is a law left over from frontier period forbidding the riding of a horse while intoxicated. Someone was actually convicted of this about 15 years ago.
Hey, technological lag is no excuse for drunk driving :!:

[SDsalsaguy]

Tuesday is the most productive day of the work week

(...not that you could tell from what I've done today -- or not done, as the case may be :?)

[SDsalsaguy]

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider! :shock:

[tasche]

how does one get killed by a wine cork exactly? I may have to take some precautions in future :o

[pygmalion]

I don't know for sure, but I'd be careful on New Year's eve, if I were you! :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

Yes, a champagne cork, not a wine cork... so I'll assume flying corks -- be it at New Year's or other festivities -- are a part of it.

[dancersdreamland]

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider! :shock:

:shock: No THAT is disturbing! :shock: I just don't see it... :D

[SDsalsaguy]

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. So there! :tongue:

[dancersdreamland]

Very random, miscellaneous, unimportant fact brought about by the tongue guy in SD's post...

I can nearly touch my tongue to my nose. :wink: :tongue:




Hey, when was this emoticon added? :banana: He's too adorable!

[Swing Kitten]

I can nearly touch my tongue to my nose. :wink: :tongue:

you must not be trying hard enough! ;)

[Adeline]

for the Lincoln and Kennedy coincidences... talk about history always repeating itself... :?

[SDsalsaguy]

Fun fact for today -- a dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

[ballroomboilergirl]

Courtesy of my ever-growing collection of Snapple Caps acquired from my addiction to Raspberry Iced Tea Snapple...

- There are more phones than people in Washington, D.C., and more caribou than people in Alaska

- Cats can hear ultrasound

- At birth, a dalmation is always pure white

- Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump

- The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano

- The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime

- Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers

- The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I, and N

- The oldest recorded animal was a tortoise that lived to be 152 years old

- The average smell weighs 760 nanograms

- The state of Hawaii has only 1 school district

- Female kangaroos are called Flyers, and male kangaroos are called Boomers

- The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips :wink:

- Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight

- You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours in order to lose one pound

- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber

- Holland is the only country with a national dog

- The average human being will spend 2 weeks of his/her life kissing :wink: Hmmm...

- Children grow faster in the spring

- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

[DancePoet]

The first country to recognize the United States of America as a country was Croatia in 1776.
:shock: Was it really called Croatia :?:

[DancePoet]

Count Dracula was actually based on a real life prince of the same name. For pure horror the one in fiction doesn't compare to the real life historical figure.
This is from a website called "pilotguides":

"Vlad Dracula (1431 - 1476)

In 1431, Romania's most famous son, Vlad Tepes, or Count Dracula as we know him familiarly, was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania. At least that's what the guide books say. Dracula is linked to many places in Transylvania on shaky evidence but there is no doubt that he roamed the forests and valleys of Romania during the 15th century. The popular image of Dracula is of a blood-sucking vampire, who snoozes in a coffin and turns into a bat when the sun goes down owes much to Bram Stoker who created this blood-thirsty Nosferatu based on the equally gory heroics of a real Romanian Prince in his novel published in 1897.

Who was Dracula?

Vlad Dracula was actually a Wallachian warlord who fought against the Turkish invaders during the 15th century. The name Dracula came from his father who also fought the Turks; Dracul meant Dragon (from a German order of knights) hence Vlad Dracula "son of the dragon". Vlad had a passion for impaling his enemies on huge stakes and picked up the catchy nickname of Tepes - the Impaler. Vlad was a little psychotic and regularly took to having his dinning table placed outside near the dying so that he could watch the show whilst having dinner. On one occasion there were so many impaled enemies hanging around that the area became known as the "Forest of the Impaled"."

Interesting ... he only lived to age 45. ;) :lol:

[DancePoet]

One of every four Americans has appeared on television at some time! :shock:
My sister has appeared on Night Line. 8)

And now that I think of it, I was on a local access cable station, twice. :roll:

[DancePoet]

Tuesday is the most productive day of the work week

(...not that you could tell from what I've done today -- or not done, as the case may be :?)
Are Wednesday and Thursday next in line :?:

Hmmm ... if I recall, Mondays usually have the most heart attacks happen, so Friday must be the least productive. ;)

[Medira]

One of every four Americans has appeared on television at some time! :shock:
My sister has appeared on Night Line. 8)

And now that I think of it, I was on a local access cable station, twice. :roll:I actually did a nightly news update for our local cable station for a period of about 6 months. It was kinda fun and my Nana always loved telling her friends that her granddaughter was on tv.

[cornutt]

Bet you didn't know this one either...

President James Garfield had a wonderfully talent. Being ambidextrous, he could write in both Latin and Greek simultaneously! :shock:

Fat lot of good it did him. Garfield is the only President ever assassinated for explicitly political reasons.

[DancePoet]

Courtesy of my ever-growing collection of Snapple Caps acquired from my addiction to Raspberry Iced Tea Snapple...

- There are more phones than people in Washington, D.C., and more caribou than people in Alaska

- Cats can hear ultrasound

- At birth, a dalmation is always pure white

- Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump

- The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano

- The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime

- Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers

- The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I, and N

- The oldest recorded animal was a tortoise that lived to be 152 years old

- The average smell weighs 760 nanograms

- The state of Hawaii has only 1 school district

- Female kangaroos are called Flyers, and male kangaroos are called Boomers

- The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips :wink:

- Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight

- You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours in order to lose one pound

- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber

- Holland is the only country with a national dog

- The average human being will spend 2 weeks of his/her life kissing :wink: Hmmm...

- Children grow faster in the spring

- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
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I once started collecting Nantucket Nectars caps, but one day I threw them all out. :(

Little did I know there would be this use for them. ;)

Hmmm ... I'll dig out the cap from the one I had this morning for breakfast ...

[DancePoet]

The dogs drawn on the NN label are Pete and Becky.

Bummer, I was hoping for something more fun then this fact. :roll:

[cocodrilo]

- You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours in order to lose one pound

One pound of WHAT? Ping pong balls?

[Zaratustra shaking it]

Five out of Ten men who watch TV, are the half.