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Post by Phalon on Jun 22, 2007 5:00:39 GMT -6
It takes 25 pea plants to produce 1 1/4 cup of shelled english peas.
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Post by Siren on Jun 24, 2007 22:23:26 GMT -6
Yick! English peas! But my big sis loves them, sprinkled with vinegar.
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Post by mabd on Jun 25, 2007 14:47:23 GMT -6
El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured. America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%.
Maeve
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Post by moonglum on Jun 25, 2007 15:07:41 GMT -6
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of Dynamite.
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Post by mabd on Jun 25, 2007 15:13:19 GMT -6
There is no Nobel Prize awarded for History.
Maeve
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Post by moonglum on Jul 1, 2007 14:44:40 GMT -6
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X.
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Post by Siren on Jul 3, 2007 21:16:49 GMT -6
*singing* "She used to tie her hair with ribbons and bows, sign her letters with X's and O's..." (by Trisha Yearwood)
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Post by Siren on Jul 7, 2007 13:55:11 GMT -6
There are more fatal traffic accidents in July than in any other month.
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Post by moonglum on Jul 7, 2007 14:11:22 GMT -6
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
(Who finds out these things?)
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Post by Siren on Jul 11, 2007 22:04:35 GMT -6
Yech! What a ghastly little factoid, MG.
A baby gray whale drinks enough milk daily to fill more than 2,000 bottles.
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Post by mabd on Jul 12, 2007 6:28:52 GMT -6
Every field tractor I have seen has a two cylinder engine. My 76 Ford does, the 47 Deere does, etc. So why does every manual include the cylinder firing sequence? Is it that hard to guess that the cylinders would fire 1, 2?
Maeve
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Post by moonglum on Jul 12, 2007 10:19:04 GMT -6
Every field tractor I have seen has a two cylinder engine. My 76 Ford does, the 47 Deere does, etc. So why does every manual include the cylinder firing sequence? Is it that hard to guess that the cylinders would fire 1, 2? Maeve Depends on your perspective Maeve. If you are sitting in the seat then the order would be 1,2. If you are about to be run over by said tractor, then the order would be 2,1. LOL.
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Post by moonglum on Jul 12, 2007 10:22:19 GMT -6
It takes a week to make a Jelly Bean!
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Post by Phalon on Jul 13, 2007 5:50:51 GMT -6
When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in volcanic lava in A.D. 79, it also buried more than 200 wine bars.
Beer was often served for breakfast in medieval England; it is liquid bread. (When I live in Germany - long ago, but not quite as far back as medieval times - McDonald's served beer at breakfast time)
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Post by moonglum on Jul 14, 2007 2:04:36 GMT -6
There is a word in the english language with only one vowel, which occurs six times.
Indivisibility.
The only fifteen letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is....
Uncopyrightable.
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Post by mabd on Jul 15, 2007 3:06:28 GMT -6
The "D" in D-Day stands for nothing -- tis a military form for "day."
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Post by fallenangel on Jul 17, 2007 14:56:12 GMT -6
Window puppet shows are illegal in New York.
Ferrets attack more people than grizzly bears.
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Post by Phalon on Jul 24, 2007 0:28:10 GMT -6
I don't water my lawn....never, ever. This is a conservation effort on my part; even my gardens require minimal water - I plant things that can handle the dryness, (although, even they require water now - it's beyond just dry here; it's dust-bowl drought dry). The lawn turns brown; it goes dormant, and its crunchiness does not feel good to walk on barefoot. In fact, it hurts. But the girls' feet are tough; they can stand it. Our ravine is green, and if I get the urge to go barefoot in the nice cool grass, I can do it down there without getting sharp grassblade slivers in my feet.
Interesting lawn facts.
Today, 58 million Americans spend approximately $30 billion every year to maintain over 23 million acres of lawn.
The average lawn requires 626 gallons of water per week.
60% of the water consumed in the western U.S. is used to water lawns.
Lawnmowers consume 580 million gallons of gasoline per year in the U.S.
There are between 1,000 and 3,000 blades of grass in a square foot of lawn, depending upon the type of grass.
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Post by Siren on Jul 30, 2007 17:45:52 GMT -6
McDonald's serves more than 52 million pounds of tomatoes each year.
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Post by mabd on Jul 31, 2007 13:10:59 GMT -6
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer."
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR.
Maeve
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Post by Siren on Aug 3, 2007 0:40:22 GMT -6
"Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR." Lucille Ball appeared on the cover of "TV Guide" 29 times - more than any other celebrity.
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Post by moonglum on Aug 8, 2007 14:12:56 GMT -6
90% of all the scientists ever born are still alive.
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Post by mabd on Aug 9, 2007 18:37:10 GMT -6
90% of all the scientists ever born are still alive. Hey, MG, would you consider Jethro Tull a scientist? This famous statement was first made by Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Chancellor for two different PMs. The only problem is that, according to Ferdinand Mount (then an officer of the Conservative Research Department at the LSE) pointed out that somewhere between 88% and 93% of all people who had ever been born were alive at that moment. (Really odd fact, Eric Hobsbawn held an endowed chair at LSE). In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness. Therefore most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags. This one is I've never been able to figure out: iguanas, by some unknown means, can suicide. Maeve
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Post by moonglum on Aug 10, 2007 0:35:22 GMT -6
90% of all the scientists ever born are still alive. Hey, MG, would you consider Jethro Tull a scientist? This famous statement was first made by Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Chancellor for two different PMs. The only problem is that, according to Ferdinand Mount (then an officer of the Conservative Research Department at the LSE) pointed out that somewhere between 88% and 93% of all people who had ever been born were alive at that moment. (Really odd fact, Eric Hobsbawn held an endowed chair at LSE). Maeve Ah, more a sweeping generalization then, on my part, rather than a fact. I shall be returning my 'Readers Digest Pocket Book of Dubious Factoids' and asking for a full refund. As for Jethro Tull, yes I think I would. He studied the agricultural problems he found and designed ways around them. MG
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Post by mabd on Aug 10, 2007 13:27:59 GMT -6
Hey, MG, would you consider Jethro Tull a scientist? This famous statement was first made by Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Chancellor for two different PMs. The only problem is that, according to Ferdinand Mount (then an officer of the Conservative Research Department at the LSE) pointed out that somewhere between 88% and 93% of all people who had ever been born were alive at that moment. (Really odd fact, Eric Hobsbawn held an endowed chair at LSE). Ah, more a sweeping generalization then, on my part, rather than a fact. I shall be returning my 'Readers Digest Pocket Book of Dubious Factoids' and asking for a full refund. As for Jethro Tull, yes I think I would. He studied the agricultural problems he found and designed ways around them. You know, I think that the real issue is about progress and Gods knows a progressive message was needed as the 1960s burnt out. In the early Victorian period (ouch, this pun is going to hurt), King's College (Oxbridge, not London) factually established that only by following the spermatic economy, could men be healthy. And at King's London, it was scientifically proved at autopsy that a woman's womb, left to long to wander about, could actually collide with her liver and so kill her. I published a dry (sorry) journal article on the mapping of the female body, especially the clitoris, from the early modern to the death of QV in 1901. I was stunned by the correlation between political mood and how the clitoris was used in medical texts. Sometimes it was clearly present and marked as such; sometimes it was suggested by lines of dashes; and sometimes it just disappeared. Essentially, the yadda, yadda about the modern fact somehow never made anyone doubt the notion of fact. I do doubt it, btw. Facts are nothing until they are interpreted. Even the act of writing, filming or recording an act is itself an interpretation. Now, see here Mr. MG, I set you up with Jethro Tull and his fallow fields and "patented deep penetrating plough." Some times, my friend, you just have to put your mind into the gutter.... oh, here, try these. More than a third of the time, Icelanders don't show up for work, which could account for why research also shows that Iceland is the world's happiest nation. Uma Thurman's father was the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Maeve
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Post by Siren on Aug 11, 2007 20:14:07 GMT -6
"Now, see here Mr. MG, I set you up with Jethro Tull and his fallow fields and "patented deep penetrating plough." Some times, my friend, you just have to put your mind into the gutter...."
LMAO! By all means, MG, join the rest of us, with minds in the gutter. Lol!
Here's an interesting fact I discovered when my cousins went outside the bar to have a smoke: it is illegal to smoke indoors in the state of Colorado.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Aug 11, 2007 22:37:29 GMT -6
And also Arizona.....pfft. Damn republicans.
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Post by moonglum on Aug 14, 2007 13:22:57 GMT -6
Pinocchio was made of pine.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Aug 14, 2007 22:25:35 GMT -6
A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 15, 2007 0:31:11 GMT -6
To cure that dryness, there is KY, an acronym of which I don't know the meaning, but let's just call it a massage inhancement product. "Massage in a Bottle", and maybe Sting and the Police will know - subliminal massages hidden in song lyrics.
Which brings us to Jethro Tull. Not really, but let's just say it does. Jethro Tull is not a scientist; they are a heavy metal rock band. No, they are not that either. A progressive rock, concept album, flutist band? I can't remember amid all the controversy - I'm kinda fluity at times, with head as Thick as a Brick.
Which brings us to Useless Fact Number 148, (or there about):
Jethro Tull won the Grammy in 1989 for Best Heavy Metal Performance, beating out Metallica - an honor that caused controversy amongst the heavy metal crowd. Metallica finally got theirs a few years later, and with it, Lars said something to the effect of 'Damn good thing Jethro Tull didn’t put out an album this year.'
Phalon ~ just playing with the useless information in my head when I should be sleeping.
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