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Post by RYTCHZ MAGIC on Oct 15, 2005 17:24:58 GMT 9
***Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
***Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
***The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
***No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
***Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
***You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
***Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
***The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
***The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
***A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
***American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
***Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
***Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
***The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
***Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
***The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
***Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
***Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
***All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
***Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
***Pearls melt in vinegar.
***Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are alrea dy married.
***The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
***It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
***A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
***The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
***Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
***Turtles can breathe through their butts
***Butterflies taste with their feet.
***In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
***On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
***On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
***Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
***Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
***Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
***Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
***It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.(try it!)
***The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
***A snail can sleep for three years.
***No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
***Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
***Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
***The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
***All polar bears are left handed.
***In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
***An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
***TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
***"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
***If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
***A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
***The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
***Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
***Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know. They will get a kick out of it !!
Footnote: So, did you try to lick your elbow?(huh! naglaway-laway nalang ko wa jud ko kaabot, hehehehe)
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Post by RYTCHZ MAGIC on Oct 15, 2005 17:26:50 GMT 9
1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
2. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.)
3. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
4. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the ..50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
5. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
6. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, GP.
7. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
8. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
9. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
10. Many years ago in England, pub frequent s had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.
And last but not least...
11. In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King & the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.U.C.K. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
Now you know where that came from.
Don't you feel smarter???
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Post by RYTCHZ MAGIC on Oct 15, 2005 17:29:03 GMT 9
8 gifts that do not cost a cent.
1) THE GIFT OF LISTENING . . . But you must REALLY listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening.
2) THE GIFT OF AFFECTION . . . Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends.
3) THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER . . . Clip cartoons. Share articles and funny stories. Your gift will say, "I love to laugh with you."
4) THE GIFT OF A WRITTEN NOTE . . . It can be a simple "Thanks for the help" note or a full sonnet. A brief, handwritten note may be remembered for a lifetime, and may even change a life.
5) THE GIFT OF A COMPLIMENT . . . A simple and sincere, "You look great in red," "You did a super job" or "That was a wonderful meal" can make someone's day.
6) THE GIFT OF A FAVOR . . . Every day, go out of your way to do something kind.
7) THE GIFT OF SOLITUDE . . . There are times when we want nothing better than to be left alone. Be sensitive to those times and give the gift of solitude to others.
8) THE GIFT OF A CHEERFUL DISPOSITION . . . The easiest way to feel good is to extend a kind word to someone, really it's not that hard to say, Hello or Thank You. Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.
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Post by RYTCHZ MAGIC on Oct 15, 2005 17:32:36 GMT 9
A 2,000 year old shoe???
LONDON - Perhaps it was left for symbolic reasons, or simply forgotten in the mud. Archaeologists said Tuesday they had found a 2,000-year-old shoe hidden in a hollow tree used to construct an ancient well near Wellington in southwest England.
"As far as we know, this is the oldest shoe ever found in the United Kingdom," said Stephen Reed, who led the team from Exeter Archaeology that made the find on the site of a modern day quarry. "It is reasonably well-preserved, with stitch and lace holes still visible in the leather."
The shoe is being studied by conservationists in Salisbury, southwest England, and is expected to be displayed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.
It was found when the owners of Whiteball Quarry began working in the area, where a Bronze Age iron-smelting site had been discovered in 1989.
Nearby, researchers from Exeter Archaeology found two water troughs, along with two timber-lined wells, preserved by waterlogging and probably dating from the early part of the Iron Age (700 BC to AD 43).
One of the wells had been constructed over a spring using a hollowed tree trunk set into the ground. "The tree trunk was removed from the site so that its contents could be excavated under laboratory conditions," Reed said. " The truly remarkable discovery of the shoe was made when this work was being undertaken by the Wiltshire Conservation Center."
The shoe is nearly 12 inches long, suggesting its owner was male, archaeologists said.
It may have been left for symbolic reasons when the site was closed or simply been lost in the mud within the spring. "The importance about this shoe is that these sort of things don't really survive at all on the archaeological record, usually because they rot down," Reed said.
He said the shoe was the first of its kind to be found in Britain, while even in Europe they numbered only "in the tens."
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