Did you know?
 

I guess this is kind of game, not really though. Here you post interesting facts that start off with did you know?

Did you know that on average right handed people live nine years longer than left handed people?

Did you know that May 16-26 is International Pickle Week? (to big to fit into a normal 7 day week!)

Pickles!!!
It's just so wrong!


MissInformation

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While in Europe, don't assume a pickle is a pickle as you know it...

Did you know, on april 29, it's Matt Attallah's birthday?! :D

Did you know if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

There, 2 at ya! ;)

A happy B-day
B: that is no longer true. China has a law stating that only one child may be born per couple. So eventually if the law were to stay in effect forever the population would be lowered to two people than one then extinction.

did you know that there is actually a type of deer so small it can fit in the palm of your hand...when it reaches it's adult size...

There has been more information published in the past 30 years than in the previous 5000.

Here's one I thought was common knowledge (amongst FIRSTers, that is), until several people stared at me blankly, and one wouldn't even believe me.

Did you know that Dean Kamen owns his own Island, and has seceded from the Union? (Island name is North Dumpling I think, or thereabouts. He even issued currency with the exchange rate of pi! At least he's got a sense of humour :D)

Stephen

[EDIT]http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html

After checking a few sources, nobody agrees on all the facts, but everybody includes most of the details (sligthly different from version to version).
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http://www.daily-camera.com/business/a294909a.html

Yes, and 1 Dollar = Pi Dumplings

Did you know that air craft carriers have their own ZIP codes?


Heh, imagine trying the look on some poor clerks face when you demand 2.14159256.... dollars back!

Did you know...
Ketchup is believed to be a descendant of a Chinese brine sauce called 'Ketsiap' which was the result of making either pickled poultry or pickled fish. Ketsiap has been known in China since around 1690 and the name is most commonly applied to a type of fish sauce. The Chinese word 'Ketsiap' simply means 'sauce.' There is also a Malay version of this fish sauce by the name of 'kechap' and this Malaysian word means 'taste.'

Sometime in the 17th century, British sailors were out sailing around for a breath of fresh air and adventure, not to mention plunder, when they discovered this fish sauce in China and carried a mess of it back home. There, probably in an effort to make it taste like anything but pickled fish, cooks mutated and reformulated this concoction until, somewhere along the way, someone invented tomatoes and history was made. Tomato Ketchup was born.

Infield Fly Rule
 

Suprisingly many people do not know this rule.

from The Glosiversity

With runners on first and second base, or the bases loaded and zero or one out, a ball hit in the air that does not go past the infield (or fifteen feet into the outfield). The batter is automatically declared out, thus preventing the fielders from purposely dropping the fly ball in an attempt to force out runners.

Re: Infield Fly Rule
 

Wow... someone who actually knows and can explain the Infield Fly Rule... I'm impressed.

I seriously thought that you were kidding about that one... I believe stuff that's not true, but then when I try to be all smart and not gullible, what I don't believe ends up being true.

But it's kind of strange it isn't more well known that Dean has his own island... you'd think that it would be. (especially amung FIRSTER-ers)

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.

also..the human swallows an average of 3 spiders per year in their sleep.

Did you know that snails can sleep for up to three years?