Post by nastygirl on Jul 8, 2006 1:15:54 GMT -5
I found these "facts" on a website that I have no remembery of how I found it....erm...anyway. I found these and I think it would be facinating if they were true...
If you take teh first two letters of your surname; first two of your first name; first two of your mother's maiden name; first two of teh county/state you live in - add in that order, you will get your star wars name.
In Star Wars Episode One, in teh pod-racing scene ET and Indiana Jones are spectators in teh crowd
teh composer Robert Schumann fancied himself to have many different personalities. He gave them all names, then wrote a multi movement piece about them. In teh final movement all of his personalities get together and have a party and praise Schumann for his excellent musical skills.
Glass is a liquid. After approximately 10 years a window will be thicker at teh bottom than at teh top.
Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on teh university science team which developed teh first portable ice cream machines used in ice cream vans. Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy icecream by developing a special type of antifreeze when she was a chemist.
Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland has a temperate climate, they were named so to confuse Viking invaders.
teh footprints of teh first men on teh moon will still be there after teh pyramids have eroded.
Norway has a longer coastline than USA
'Coca-Cola' translates to Chinese as 'Bite teh wax tadpole'
Coca-Cola was originally green.
there are 256 different words for 'rice' in China
Who is teh only person to legally travel through a red traffic light? A postman delivering a declaration of war
It is illegal to flush teh loo in Switzerland after 10pm
all teh clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20pm
teh word loo came about when British soldiers went to France and teh French would put them in hotels with 100 rooms; teh last room would be teh toilet, which happened to be teh 100th room in teh hote
teh nose on teh statue of liberty is 6ft 4"
teh catalytic converter on teh new Porsche 911 is so powerfull that if driven in LA teh exhaust fumes are cleaner than teh poluted air taken in.
If you stretch both your arms fully across and measure from teh distance from teh tip of your middle finger - that will be your height
teh artery of a blue whale is so large that a human can swim in it
teh largest living thing on Earth is a mushroom formation that spans over four miles of caverns underneath Minnesota.
did you know a carboard box can only be recycled up to three times
More people are killed by donkeys every year than are killed in plane crashes.
Why do we clink glasses when we 'cheers' someone before drinking? Because in mediaeval times they would clash glasses so that liquid from each glass would spill into one another's glass & prove that both were drinking with good will and not to poison each other!
Big Ben was slowed by five minutes one day in 1945 when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on teh minute hand of teh clock.
teh most poisonous spider is not teh black widow but teh wingless daddy longlegs however their fangs cannot pierce human skin and so pose no threat.
In China, teh beer we drink (Tsing Dao) is made with formaldehyde (that's embalming fluid). Gives you a rotten hangover but it's very drinkable.
There is a sea squirt (found in teh seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When teh sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So - waste not want not - it eats it!
American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
If you stir liquid Helium III and stop, it will continue to swirl forever, it can also flow uphill. It is what's known as a super liquid.
If you take teh first two letters of your surname; first two of your first name; first two of your mother's maiden name; first two of teh county/state you live in - add in that order, you will get your star wars name.
In Star Wars Episode One, in teh pod-racing scene ET and Indiana Jones are spectators in teh crowd
teh composer Robert Schumann fancied himself to have many different personalities. He gave them all names, then wrote a multi movement piece about them. In teh final movement all of his personalities get together and have a party and praise Schumann for his excellent musical skills.
Glass is a liquid. After approximately 10 years a window will be thicker at teh bottom than at teh top.
Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on teh university science team which developed teh first portable ice cream machines used in ice cream vans. Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy icecream by developing a special type of antifreeze when she was a chemist.
Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland has a temperate climate, they were named so to confuse Viking invaders.
teh footprints of teh first men on teh moon will still be there after teh pyramids have eroded.
Norway has a longer coastline than USA
'Coca-Cola' translates to Chinese as 'Bite teh wax tadpole'
Coca-Cola was originally green.
there are 256 different words for 'rice' in China
Who is teh only person to legally travel through a red traffic light? A postman delivering a declaration of war
It is illegal to flush teh loo in Switzerland after 10pm
all teh clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20pm
teh word loo came about when British soldiers went to France and teh French would put them in hotels with 100 rooms; teh last room would be teh toilet, which happened to be teh 100th room in teh hote
teh nose on teh statue of liberty is 6ft 4"
teh catalytic converter on teh new Porsche 911 is so powerfull that if driven in LA teh exhaust fumes are cleaner than teh poluted air taken in.
If you stretch both your arms fully across and measure from teh distance from teh tip of your middle finger - that will be your height
teh artery of a blue whale is so large that a human can swim in it
teh largest living thing on Earth is a mushroom formation that spans over four miles of caverns underneath Minnesota.
did you know a carboard box can only be recycled up to three times
More people are killed by donkeys every year than are killed in plane crashes.
Why do we clink glasses when we 'cheers' someone before drinking? Because in mediaeval times they would clash glasses so that liquid from each glass would spill into one another's glass & prove that both were drinking with good will and not to poison each other!
Big Ben was slowed by five minutes one day in 1945 when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on teh minute hand of teh clock.
teh most poisonous spider is not teh black widow but teh wingless daddy longlegs however their fangs cannot pierce human skin and so pose no threat.
In China, teh beer we drink (Tsing Dao) is made with formaldehyde (that's embalming fluid). Gives you a rotten hangover but it's very drinkable.
There is a sea squirt (found in teh seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When teh sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So - waste not want not - it eats it!
American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
If you stir liquid Helium III and stop, it will continue to swirl forever, it can also flow uphill. It is what's known as a super liquid.