Did you know????????

a teaspoonful of sugar stops hiccups instantly...

 

Can animals count?

Some animals can apparently count small numbers. Pigeons, magpies, rats and monkeys have all been shown to be able to count small quantities and distinguish approximately between larger quantities. Many animals can recognize if one of their young is missing, too.

Ray.... just sneezed.... I tried holding my eyes open.... yeah it didnt work

Mark

 

ha! ha! mark,good fun...try the hiccup cure next time.....

 

there are 10 times more stars in the visible Universe than all the grains of sand on the world's beaches and deserts.

 

did you know that smiles is the longest word in the dictionary!






answer :because theres a mile between the 1st and last letter,ha! ha! joke..

 

Aint this the truth!

As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States shows signs of addiction to the internet.

I am one of those eight

Mark

 

Who cares, its hysterical!

 

I got some!


Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973.

 

Good ones Slon!

Lets see what I have...

The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it

During World War ll, the British intelligence used the Colossus machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazi"s

Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies

 

On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

 

The "D" in D-Day originally represented nothing other than to create a name for the day a planned assault/attack was to take place by adding a "D." Similarly, the hour the attack was to start was H-Hour. After World War II, it became synonymous with the Allied assault on occupied France on June 6th, 1944.

 

Seeing as how I am halfway-dead, I better get busy!!


If you were ever grounded when you were little, you can thank WWII Aviation for that! Pilots would be 'grounded' due to bad weather and somehow the term became used when you were forced to stay in your room for being bad.

 

Muss,

interesting statistic indeed.... wonder when the age starts (15....19??), and when it ends?? and the variables in between

 

Don't worry guys, this rather small estimate I believe only applies to British

Regards
Kruska

 

That yesterday, August 2nd was special in American numismatic history?

Aug. 2, 2009, marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation. The U.S. Mint had been producing one-cent coins since its founding in 1792, but the 1909 penny (which replaced the Indian-head coin) was the first coin on which a President's likeness appeared. Teddy Roosevelt commissioned the coin to celebrate the 100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. While most people applauded the new design, former Confederate soldiers were upset at the prospect of carrying the image of Lincoln in their pockets.

From:

Land of Lincoln - Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About the Penny - TIME

Just found that myself, and thought it deserved to be in the "did you know" thread.

 

did you know!!! No American has died of old age since 1951? how/why?
because! That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates.

 

At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika”. All three were soon changed for PR purposes.

Jem

 

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

 

In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile? really!!

 

A unit of 29 amphibious Sherman tanks were launched from Allied ships on D-Day (June 6, 1944), but only two made it to land. The others sank in high seas. In 2000, divers were able to locate most of these tanks on the seabed.

ref: DK Eyewitness Books (World War II)

Jem