Tigers are the only members of the cat family that can not purr…and nobody knows why.
also, scientists still can not understand why flags wave in the wind. apparently, flags have the ability to stay perfectly still in the wind too…as proven by experiments done by the scientists. go figure.
Did you know that 7up was invented by Charles Ceiper Grigg of the Howdy Corporation in 1929. It was originally called “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, but the name was eventually changed to 7up. 7up was also the first soda to use 1 liter bottles.
The purest gold coin is made by the Canadian Mint.
did you know that racecar spelled backwards is racecar! amazing isint it:)
if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney Cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie
the winter of 1992 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid!!
We’re getting closer and closer to International Pickle Week!
Did you know good pickles have an audible crunch at ten paces? This is measured using an Audible Crunch Meter. Pickles that can only be heard at one pace are known as denture dills.
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Did you know that it is legal to duel in Paraguay as long as both parties are blood doners?
The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.
If a person in New Hampshire is caught raking the beaches, picking up litter, hauling away trash, building a bench for the park and many other activities without a permit, he/she may be fined $150 for “maintaining the national forest without a permit.”
Although bourbon is Kentucky’s leading export and its production directly employs thousands of people, it is illegal to buy the product in the very counties in which it is produced. They are all, to this day, still dry.
It’s illegal to hunt whales on Sunday in Ohio.
If someone beats a cow with porcelan figures he could be called a Nick Nack Patty Wack.
TODAYS ODD DISNEY FACTOID: All the waterways in the Magic Kingdom are connected. The highest point in the system is the 20000 Leagues Lagoon and flows to the lowest point, the Rivers of America.
384 acutally handed out rare gold & blue beeds at the VCU regional, while at Nats they handed out orange and blue. Freaky…
*Originally posted by supersy *
**did you know that racecar spelled backwards is racecar! amazing isint it:) **
Palindromes rock.
Madam, I’m Adam!
A man, a pan, a Panama!
Did u know…that in NYC jumping off a high building is punishable by death!
Crab Drive comes from the Crab car. I forget when it was introduced but I think it was the 60’s or 70’s. In the crab car, to parallel park all you need to do was to drive up beside the spot and press a button. Your wheels would rotate 90 degrees and you could drive straight in and out of your spot. Unfortunately this was ridiculously unreliable so many times your wheels would get stuck in one orientation. Currently, Engineers in major auto makers are looking into the idea of crab drive.
Did you know that elephants are the only ones that can’t jump?
Did you know my Birthday is on Valentines day?
the only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear??
my birthday is on leap year??
heh, about that 60’s crab drive.
My great grand-something (i never met him) unloaded a few hundred Popular Mechanics, from the 50’s through the 70’s.
One of them featured the parrallel parking system of which you speak . . . but not quite. It was indeed called crab car or something, but the main drive wheels did not actually rotate. Instead, a small set (read, 4 inche diameter) of wheels that were oriented perpendicular to the direction of normal travel lowered, and allowed you to drive the car (slowly) either left or right. It never caught on because it was buggy and expensive, and most people could parrallel park without it. Most people still can, its not that hard.
They featured several other parking systems. One I remember was a kinda forklift device. You would pull up in the spot and pay the man (or the machine, it may have been automated) and it would slide its forks under your car and park it in any of a honeycomb of spots that it controlled (it had two directions of motion.) It never caught on because of price and maintenence. And noone would let their BMW get forklifted up twenty feet by either a robot or the scruffy-looking operator.
did you know that what a company tells you is one kilobyte is only 1000/1024 of a kilobyte. And what a company tells you is one meg is really only 1000/1024 kilobytes, and so on and so forth?
*Originally posted by Frank(Aflak) *
**They featured several other parking systems. One I remember was a kinda forklift device. You would pull up in the spot and pay the man (or the machine, it may have been automated) and it would slide its forks under your car and park it in any of a honeycomb of spots that it controlled (it had two directions of motion.) It never caught on because of price and maintenence. And noone would let their BMW get forklifted up twenty feet by either a robot or the scruffy-looking operator.
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Walk around New York City sometime
They’re not quite as you described, but there are plenty of parking lots that put cars into big giant cabinet-like things.
They do it with boats, too, when they’re winterized.
I’ve heard a few nifty factoids lately and thought of this thread.
Did you know…
on every continent there is a city called Rome?
the pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle?
the electric chair was invented by a dentist?
ok this is completly random but did you know that it is illeagl to own a hedgehog in Pennsylvania. weird huh? just found that out.
did u know…
In chico california…Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine
In texas…When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
In new york… A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket.
In maine…You may not step out of a plane in flight.
and finally, In pensacola, florida…A women can be fined (only after death), for being electrocuted in a bath-tub because of using self-beautification utensils.
cant help but laugh at all the dumb laws in the US, for more go to
http://www.dumblaws.com/index.html
More dumb laws…
San Francisco:
-Prohibits elephants from strolling down Market Street unless they are on a leash.
-Persons classified as “ugly” may not walk down any street.
What good would a leash do on an elephant? Seriously! …So who classifies the person as ugly? A police officer? Or can any person call the police and report an “ugly person”?