Portion of U.S. annual rainfall in April: 1/12.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28.
Tip for the Day: Men, make dinner when ever possible. Women,
Be especially
nice to your husband that night. ;-)
Friday, April 27, 2001
In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Tip for the Day: At meetings, refrain from turning around to see who
has
arrived late.
Thursday, April 26, 2001
Portion of land in the U.S. owned by the Government: 1/3.
James Buchanan was the only President to remain a bachelor.
Did you know that ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Tip for the Day: Never ride a bicycle or motorcycle barefoot.
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Portion of potatoes sold that are French Fried: 1/3.
Number of U.S. states that claim test scores in their elementary schools
are
above national average: 50.
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5.
Tip for the Day: Write the names, dates, etc. on the back of photos
as soon
as you get them back from the developer.
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Tip for the Day: Help a small child plant a small garden.
Monday, April 23, 2001
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Did you know that they have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
Starfish have eight eyes -- one at the end of each leg.
Tip for the Day: Don't eat any meat loaf but your Mom's.
Sunday, April 22, 2001
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36.
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43.
City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists:
Washington, D.C. (Also has the highest murder rate in the country)
Tip for the Day: When apologizing, look the person in the eye.
Saturday, April 21, 2001
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Bet you didn't know that Armadillos can be housebroken.
Men can also be housebroken, but it takes a lot more effort.
Tip for the Day: Never watch Hot Dogs or sausage be made
Friday, April 20, 2001
Number of different familial relationships for which Hallmark makes
cards:
105.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
Percenage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or DisneyWorld: 70.
Tip for the Day: Win without boasting.
Thursday, April 19, 2001
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44%
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear:
7.............OK, I have to wonder HOW they were able to get that info
but, I
DON'T want to know.
Tip for the Day: Wash your hands after shaking hands with a West German.
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
You have one in seven chance of being born on a Monday.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.
The chances of a white Christmas in New York is one in four.
Tip for the Day: Listening with your eyes is as important as listening
with
your ears-Look for body language.
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Ronald Reagan was originally cast in the immortal role of "Rick" in
the movie
"Casablanca."
It would take a snail eight days to travel one mile.
Snakes continue to grow until the day they die. If George
Burns had been a snake, he would have been 82 feet tall.
Scientists can tell the age of a dolphin or porpoise by
counting the rings on the inner part of their teeth. Each
ring represents one year of age and one year of not flossing
and brushing properly
Tip for the Day: Do 2 push-ups and 2 sit-ups a day. OK, My book said
50 but
like...........who ever listens to my tips of the day?
Monday, April 16, 2001
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945, edition of Life magazine there was a picture
of a
chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Tip for the Day: Share your knowledge and talents.
Sunday, April 15, 2001
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay."
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Tip for the Day: Be easy on the environment.
Saturday, April 14, 2001
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
Tip for the Day: Don't work for a company led by someone of questionable
character.
Friday, April 13, 2001
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Popeye was 5"6.
Tip for the Day: Learn three knock-knock jokes so you will always be
ready to
entertain children.
Thursday, April 12, 2001
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place
in the
world.
Ants never sleep.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Tip for the Day: Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Singapore only has one train station.
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Tip for the Day: Act with courtesy and fairness regardless of how others
treat you.
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all
the
states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
Tip for the Day: In a verbal confrontation, lower your voice the same
degree
that the other person raises his or hers.
Monday, April 9, 2001
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862
089986280348253421170679.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes
it
was 3A.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
Tip for the Day: Take a picture of every car you've owned and every
house you
have lived in. It will help you remember wonderful memories.
Saturday, April 7, 2001
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
Tip for the Day: Let your children see you do things for your wife that
lets
them know how much you love and treasure her.
Friday, April 6, 2001
Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
The percent of women who wash their hands
after leaving a restroom is
80%. The percentage of men who wash their hands after using a restroom
is
55%.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
Tip for the Day: The fastest way to a women heart is a kind word and
a smile.
THEN, the diamonds, the flowers, the chocolates and charge cards!
Thursday, April 5, 2001
Arch supports were invented by Konrad Birkenstock in 1897. He designed
shoes
that followed the shape of the foot so that comfort would increase.
The basic
design revolutionized the footwear industry.
Strangeray Springs cattle station in South Australia is the largest
ranch
in the world. It's area, 30,029 square kilometers, and is only slightly
smaller than the European country of Belgium.
Up until 1623 in England, criminals could escape their pursuers by claiming
sanctuary in a church by grasping the ring of the door knocker called
a
Hagoday.
Tip for the Day: Don't take a good marriage for granted.
Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance together
in
public, according to their movie contracts.
The first lithographed American lunchbox appeared in 1902. It was shaped
like
a picnic basket and had children at play painted on it.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone,
was originally an
instructor for deaf children and invented the telephone to help his
deaf wife
and mother to hear.
Tip for the Day: Stop and watch an artist paint a picture.
Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Did you know:
Dartmouth was the last Ivy League college to go coed, in 1972.
Nyctitropism is the tendency of the leaves or petals
of certain plants
to assume a different position at night.
Frank Sinatra was offered the male lead in the film
Funny Girl (1968), but Barbra Streisand, who had performed the role
successfully on Broadway, refused to take second billing, as did Sinatra.
Even though this was her film debut, Streisand would not back down,
and
Sinatra, in a frustrated huff, dropped out. A film deal with David
Janssen to
take the role fell apart. The part was ultimately given to the exotic
Omar
Shariff, on the heels of his success in Doctor Zhivago.
Tip for the Day: (Males) Keep your head high and your hair short.
Monday, April 2, 2001
WERE RED M&M'S EVER MADE WITH A CARCINOGENIC
DYE?
No. In 1976, M&M's responded to publicity
about the
carcinogenic effects of red dye number 2 by taking
red M&M's
off the market. However, red M&M's were not
made with red dye
number 2: The company acted because people wrongly
believed
that the dye was being used. Red M&M's have
since been
reintroduced.
Waste industry experts estimate that Americans
discard 250 million tires each
year, and that more than 3 billion are stored
in landfills or litter
backyards and "wildcat" dumps. Tires burning
at landfills generate huge
amounts of noxious air pollution. This problem
first came to national
attention when hundreds of thousands of tires
at an East Coast landfill in
the US burned for three years during the 1980s.
Tire fires are difficult, and
sometimes impossible, to extinguish.
Tip for the Day: Never ignore a ringing fire alarm.
Sunday, April 1, 2001
In Bavaria, beer is not an alcoholic drink. It is legally defined as
a
staple food.
According to a 1999 survey conducted
by the National Sleep Foundation,
of those people who snore, 19 percent snore so loudly that they can
be heard
through a closed door.
According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million
things that are
shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them,
in the
course of one day.
"It's an ill plan that cannot be changed."---Latin proverb
Tip for the Day: Tell family members you love them before they leave
for more
than a day.
Saturday, March 31, 2001
Did you know:
While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard
da Vinci
was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section
of a
tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between
the
rings indicated the annual moisture.
Time magazine reports that in Russia, buying carnations
or roses is a
prerequisite for a first date. They must be given in odd numbers, because
flowers given in even numbers are reserved for funerals.
A couple living together for two years in Russia is considered married.
This is called a citizen marriage.
Tip for the Day: Wear clean underwear.
Friday, March 30, 2001
Dimpled Chad, an official of ancient Greece decreed that mollusk shells
be
used as ballots, because once a vote was scratched on the shell, it
couldn't
be erased or altered.
On April 10, 1946, women voted for the first time in Japan.
On average in the United States, 150,000 new laws and about 2 million
new
regulations from various local, state, and federal governments are
put into
place every year.
Tip for the Day: Always offer anyone in your home at least a drink.
In many
cultures, it is considered VERY rude not to offer food or drink to
a guest.
Thursday, March 29, 2001
The first patent issued for modern suspenders – those
with the familiar
metal clasp – was issued in October 1894.
Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on
the telephone, an
"Improvement in Telegraphy," on Valentine's Day, 1876.
Until about 150 years ago, churchgoing was required by law in England.
Tip for the Day: Look before you leap.
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Didja Know...
The record for ketchup drinking belongs to Dustin Phillips (USA), who
drank a
14-oz. bottle of tomato ketchup through a 1/4" straw in 33 seconds
on
September 23, 1999.
The great library of Alexandria, founded in 295 BC, held 700,000 books
at its
peak. But much of it was destroyed by fire in AD 47
when Julius Caesar laid siege to the city. Caesar had borrowed
several books that were substantially overdue. Thus one of history's
most
famous disasters may have been a cover-up to avoid paying a fine.
Didja know...Astaire's feet were insured for $650,000. Betty
Grable's legs
were insured for $250,000. And Jimmy Durante's
nose was for a measly $140,000.
Tip for the Day: Sunday evening's should be as much a family night as
Monday
evening is.
Tuesday, March 27, 2001
There are over 375 organizations around the world devoted to Sherlock
Holmes.
The largest group is the Japan Sherlock Holmes Club with over 1,200
members.
One study indicates that 1 in 5 Native Americans
die in accidents,
compared with 1 in 17 of the general American population.
Only 3 percent of Americans ages 18 to 21 attended college in 1890.
Tip for the Day: Don't be afraid to take big steps.
Monday, March 26, 2001
In the United States, 26 million out of more than 40 million dogs can
perform at least one trick. According to a survey, 5,400,000 dogs sit,
3,800,000 shake paws, and only 379,508 dogs "say prayers."
The classic "Radio Flyer" toy wagon was designed by Antonio Pasin,
who founded his company in 1918. Pasin wanted to give his wagons a
modern
flair, and chose the word "radio" for what was then a new form of
communication, and "flyer" for the wonder of flight –
hence, "Radio Flyer."
There are more than 200 different types of Barbie® dolls.
Tip for the Day: Remember that a turtle only makes progress when he
sticks
his neck out.
Sunday, March 25, 2001
One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing
of class rings. Approximately 2.8 million are made each year.
In the United States, about 4 percent of first-born, school-aged children
are
enrolled in parochial schools.
There are more than 10,000 golf courses in the United States.
Tip for the Day: Pride makes us do things well, but it is love that
makes us
do them to perfection.
Saturday, March 24, 2001
The ferret has the largest pancreas to weight ratio than any other
animal,
including humans.
Roses may be red, but violets are, indeed, violet.
Illinois Avenue, GO, B&O Railroad,
Free Parking and Tennessee Avenue
are the five squares in Monopoly on which you're most likely to land.
Tip for the Day: Never mow a lawn without wearing shoes or boots.
Friday, March 23, 2001
It's a proven fact that you will live longer if you always breathe
thru your
nose.
Cows salivate over 100 lbs. per day.
Wearing a Superman suit does not enable you to fly.
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
--Abigail Van Buren
Tip for the Day:
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."
--Vince Lombardi
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Thursday, March 22, 2001
A typical thoroughbred racehorse can go at top speed for
only about a quarter of a mile. It's the jockey's job to decide
when that surge can most contribute to winning a race. His
timing will help determine if man and beast are headed for a
dash to the finish line, or the finished line.
George Washington's presidential salary was $25,000. a year.
"I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better."--Sophie Tucker
Tip for the Day: Ethic joke are almost ALWAYS not funny.
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
HOW MUCH WEIGHT IS SAVED WHEN AN AIRLINE
DOESN'T PAINT AN MD-11 JUMBO JET?
Almost 300 pounds
IN WHAT COUNTRY DID THE WINDMILL ORIGINATE?
In Iran, in AD 644. It was used to grind grain.
WHICH FIVE RULERS REIGNED THE LONGEST?
With their periods of reign, they are:
1. Pepi II, king of Egypt - 90 years (c. 2566-2476 BC)
2. Louis XIV, king of France - 72 years (1643-1715)
3. John II, prince of Liechtenstein - 71 years (1858-1929)
4. Franz Joseph, emperor of Austria - 68 years (1848-1916)
5. Victoria, queen of England - 64 years (1837-1901)
Tip for the Day: When you have been wronged, a poor memory is the best
response.
Tuesday, March 20, 2001
 HOW MANY CHILDREN DID FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER HAVE
      BESIDES HIS HIGH-PROFILE
DAUGHTER, AMY?
Three--sons Jack (John William), Chip (James Earl), and Jeff
(Donnel Jeffrey).
Why do we say that the person receiving the largest share of
something has gotten the lion's share?
Most people probably assume that the expression stems from
the idea of the lion being king of the beasts, the most ferocious and
powerful individual in the jungle.
That's the right spirit, but the phrase's origin is more
specific. In an Aesop fable a lion, a cow, a sheep and a
goat form a hunting party. They kill a deer and the lion
divides it into four equal parts. He takes three of the
parts – the lion's share -- and lets the others divide
one.Â
Tip for the Day: Learn to be a good speller.
Monday, March 19, 2001
British and Americans call many things the same, but are talking about
different things all together. For example, the Brits wear "vests"
under
their shirts. Yanks call them "undershirts." Americans wear suspenders
to
hold up their pants, while in Britain suspenders push back one's teeth
(the
equivalent of the "braces"). My favorite is the American "orchestra
seats,"
which offer a close-up view of a play or concert. In Britain you would
be
sitting in the "stalls" or on the "Lou."
WHO CAME UP WITH THE PHRASE "SURVIVAL
OF THE FITTEST"? Not Charles
Darwin. The British philosopher and scientist
Herbert Spencer introduced the phrase in Principles of
Biology (1864 - 1867) as a way of describing Darwin's theory
of natural selection.
Tip for the Day: "Examine the contents, not the bottle." --The Talmud
Sunday, March 18, 2001
Why so sailors wear those funky 60's style bell bottoms pants?
For one thing, bell-bottoms make it easier to roll up one's pants
when swabbing the deck is the order of the day. Sailors have
been doing that since the beginning of history.
This style of pants leg also facilitates getting the pants
off quickly. Uhh, not for that......... we're talking
here about what happens if a sailor suddenly finds himself
overboard and needs to swim, free of encumbrances.
Did you know that the original name of the comic strip "Peanuts" was
"Li'l
Folk."
"Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds
appear." --Elbert Hubbard
Tip for the Day: Do a good job because you want to, not because you
have to.
This puts you in charge instead of your boss.
Saturday, March 17, 2001
The white trail that follows a plane is actually ice.
The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating
a
female fly.
If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height,
you
get pi to the fifteenth digit!
Tip for the Day: Wipe off the sticky jelly jar before putting it back
in the
cupbaord.
Friday, March 16, 2001
India has 50 million monkeys.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tip for the Day: When you carve the Thanksgiving turkey, give the first
piece
to the person who prepared it.........yeah............whatever.....
Thursday, March 15, 2001
August 8th is the start of "National Pickle Week."
The octopus can change it's color in less than a second.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of big words.
Tip for the Day: Hold your child's hand whenever you get the chance.
The time
will come when he or she won't let you.
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."
The celebration of Maryland Day began
in Maryland's schools in 1903.
That year, teachers from around the State agreed that a special day
needed to
be set aside for school programs that would help students appreciate
the
State and its history. They chose March 25 as the day to call Maryland
Day.
It was on that day in 1634 that Maryland's first colonists left their
ships,
the Ark and the Dove, and came ashore to give thanks for a safe passage
across the Atlantic Ocean.
66,000 people are airborne over the US any given hour.
The Aztec ruler Montezuma II consumed upwards to fifty cups of chocolate
(chocolate what?) daily in the belief that the substance possessed
aphrodisiacal qualities.
Tip for the Day: Deadlines are important, meet them.
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Word of the Day: Calipygian - (adj.) Characterized by having shapely
buttocks. i.e. " Whoa chick, you got a nice calipygian on that backend
of
yours."
If you lock you knees while standing long enough, you will pass-out.
A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
Montana has a bear to person ratio of 4:1, dear to person ratio 9:1
yet no
posted speed limit.
"The family you come from isn't as important as the family
you're going to have."--Ring Lardner
Tip for the Day: Lose without excuses.
Monday, March 12, 2001
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
Dentist to Patient: "Would you help me? Could you give out a
few of your loudest, most painful screams?"
Patient: "Why, Doc? It isn't all that bad this time."
Dentist: "There are so many people in the waiting room right
now and I don't want to miss the 5 o'clock football game."
Tip fot the Day: Win without boasting. ( I don't know if us Brooke's
can do
that!)
Saturday, March 10, 2001
Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official
name,
used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Tip for the Day: Be engaged at least six months before getting married.
Friday, March 9, 2001
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."
The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle fingernail grows the fastest.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean
language.
Tip for the Day: You can't sleep all you want.
Thursday, March 8, 2001
277 medical institutions in the United States operate an organ transplant
program.
Children spend more time learning about life through media than in any
other
manner. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching
television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school.
Montgomery, Alabama, was the birthplace of the Civil War as well as
the
modern Civil Rights Movement.
Tip for the Day: Don't spend all you have.
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
In ancient Greece, "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.
The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan.
Tip for the Day: Don't believe all you hear.
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
Animators drew nearly 6.5 MILLION black spots for the film "101 Dalmatians."
The toes of mummies are wrapped individually.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered
a
100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and
that is softness of head." --Teddy Roosevelt
Tip for the Day: What you must do, do cheerfully.
Monday, March 5, 2001
A single bushel of corn can produce:
32 pounds of cornstarch or 33 pounds of corn sweetener or
2.5 gallons of ethanol PLUS
1.6 pounds of corn oil
11.4 pounds of 21% protein gluten feed
3 pounds of 60% gluten meal
One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of soda.
Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily
requirement for Vitamin C.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
Tip for the Day: Don't dismiss a good idea simply because you don't
like the
source.
Sunday, March 4, 2001
Orange juice helps the body absorb iron more easily when consumed with
a meal.
Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
During 1994-95, the drugs used to treat hypertension and cardiovascular
disease in the elderly (65 years and over) cost an average of $200
per
person? That's more than a 500 per cent increase over 1985-86, when
the cost
was only $36.56 per person.
"If you don't control your mind, someone else will." --John Allston
Tip for the Day: Don't buy a cheap mattress.
Saturday, March 3, 2001
Weightlifting first appeared on the original Olympic program in
Athens in 1896. It reappeared in 1904, and has been on the program
permanently since 1920.
Ties in weightlifting are awarded to the lifter with the lighter body
weight. If the lifters' bodyweights are exactly the same, the tie is
awarded
to the lifter who lifted first.
Essay in French means 'to try, attempt'.
"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being
unhappy is wasted." -- Ruth E. Renkl
Tip for the Day: When a good man or woman runs for political office,
support
him or her with your time and money.
Friday, March 2, 2001
The hotel that Lloyd and Harry go to in Dumb and Dumber is the Stanley
Hotel. The Stanley Hotel is Stephen King's inspiration for The Shining,
and
was the place were they filmed "The Shining" TV mini-series.
AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian"
and "Post-Meridian," respectively,
and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change
the
way you think about it."-- Mary Engelbreit
Tip for the Day: Get a car with a sun roof.
Thursday, March 1, 2001
WHAT DO AMERICANS FEAR MOST?
A poll of 3,000 Americans yielded the following top five fears:
1. Speaking before a group - 41%
2. Heights - 32%
3. Insects and bugs - 22%
4. Financial problems - 22%
5. Deep water - 22%
HOW MANY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN
NAMED FOR QUEEN VICTORIA?
There are eight:
1. Victoria, Australia - The smallest, most densely populated
state in Australia
2. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - The largest city on
Vancouver Island
3. Victoria Falls - On the Zambezi River at the borders of
Zambia and Zimbabwe
4. Victoria Island - A large in the Arctic Ocean off northern Canada
5. Lake Victoria - The largest lake in Africa, also known as
Victoria Nyanza, located on the borders of Uganda and Tanzania
6. Victoria Land, Antarctica - A row of mountains
7. Victoria Nile - Part of the White Nile, located in Uganda
8. Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada - A town in the province
of Quebec
Tip for the Day: Don't expect the best gifts to be wrapped in the pretty
paper.
Wednesday, February 28, 2001
A vast majority of married men sleep on the right hand side of the
bed
(facing from the headboard), regardless of race, creed or age. Divorced
men
often switch to left side.
Two dogs
survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that's right, two DOGS
survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying
so few people that no one
objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought
her Pomeranian with her in
lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of
the publishing family boarded
boat No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
Sperm whales sleep
vertically with their heads pointed towards the
bottom of the ocean
Tip for the Day: Try not to become a person of
success but rather, try to
become a person of value.
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
Didja Know...
Jack Mercer was the longest-serving vocal actor
in a cartoon, providing
the "voisk" of Popeye the Sailor for 45 years
(Source: Guinness World
A little known fact about Roman architecture
is that they were one of the
first civilizations to use cement. The Roman's actually discovered
cement by
accident. A volcano (I believe it was Mount Vesuvius) dumped the raw
materials together in one place and provided enough heat to form raw
cement.
The Roman's were able to mine cement from the area and use it in their
buildings. Many of the ancient buildings in the area are made of cement
or
concrete (cement mixed with sand and gravel) covered with a layer of
marble.
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a
time."
--Abraham Lincoln
Tip for the Day: Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.
Sunday, February 25, 2001
An average American will eat 350 cows, 310 hogs, and 225
lambs in a lifetime.
Cats can't taste sweet things.
The Australian gov't has rejected the birth certificate of a couple
who had
named their kids "Maytag" and "Kenmore."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
--Darrel Royal
Tip for the Day: It's more important to dress your kids in clean clothes,
not the most expensive.
Saturday, February 24, 2001
Roosevelt and Churchill employed a secret Astrologer to inform them
what
German Astrologers were telling Hitler.
Nostradamus based all his predictions on Astrology.
One human hair can support 3 kg.
Tip for the Day: REALLY slow down in school zones.
Friday, February 23, 2001
Given the choice of being either Lord Darth Vader
or Chewbacca, former
professional weightlifter David Prowse joined
the Dark Side of the Force.
Carrie Fisher is now a best-selling writer and
is in demand as one of
Hollywood's best script rewriters.
An oyster produces a pearl when foreign material
becomes trapped inside the
shell. The oyster responds to the irritation
by producing nacre, a
combination of calcium and protein. The nacre
coats the foreign material and
over time produces a pearl.
Tip for the Day: Treat your employees as good as your treat your clients.
Thursday, February 22, 2001
By 1779, as many as one in seven Americans in
Washington's army was black! At
first Washington was hesitant about enlisting
blacks. But when he heard they
had fought well at Bunker Hill, he changed his
mind. The all-black First
Rhode Island Regiment -- composed of 33 freedmen
and 92 slaves who were
promised freedom if they served until the end
of the war -- distinguished
itself in the Battle of Newport. Later, they
were all but wiped out in a
British attack.
Louis Pasteur is the actual discoverer of penicillin.
His laboratory notes
contain the following statement: 'This damned
mold keeps destroying my
cultures.'
Tip for the Day: Pay attention!
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Didja Know...
John Wilkes Booth first planned only to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, holding
the
president hostage until all Confederate prisoners of war were released.
There were women in the Continental Army, even
a few who saw combat! Probably
the best known is Mary Ludwig Hays, nicknamed
'Molly Pitcher.' She replaced
her wounded husband at his cannon during the
Battle of Monmouth in 1778.
Another wife of an artillery man, Margaret Corbin,
was badly wounded serving
in her husband's gun crew at the Battle of Harlem
Heights in 1776. Thousands
of other women served in Washington's army as
cooks and nurses.
Tip for the Day: Don't expect anyone to know what
you want for Christmas
unless you tell them.
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
2.2 Percent of American households do not have complete
plumbing facilities.
The only brothers to sign the Declaration
of Independence
were Francis Lightfoot Lee and Richard Henry Lee.
The Bank of America was originally called
The Bank of Italy.
Tip for the Day: Every year celebrate something special just for your
family.
Monday, February 19, 2001
At 4.2 million square feet, the Mall of America becomes Minnesota's
third-largest population center at peak activity.
This is something New York taxi drivers might find interesting. The
middle
finger, as opposed to other fingers, is given as the "Welcome to NY"
sign
because in medieval times, the middle finger, a useful finger, was
cut off as
a form of punishment. So.........it is raised high and shown as in
"Hey @%*/#
I still have my middle finger!"
"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."
--Gertrude Stein
Tip for the Day: "We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
--Jean Toomer
Sunday, February 18, 2001
Only right-handed players can play polo according to the
U.S. Polo Association.
The little rubber thingy at the end of a toothbrush is called a
"stimulator tip."
Does root beer have ANY alcohol in it?
No, but the name made people think it did. In fact, the
Women's Christian Temperance Union called for a boycott of
the soft drink. Quite a controversy raged, and the Charles
E. Hires Co. was nearly devastated. Finally, a lab analyzed
samples of the drink and determined that it contained "less
alcohol than a loaf of bread." The Women's Christian
Temperance Union apologized.
Tip for the Day: Live with your pet for a few days before naming it.
Saturday, February 17, 2001
40 percent of Americans suffer from shyness.
What are you supposed to do with the wine cork when a
waiter hands it to you? (as if we care)
You're not supposed to sniff! The idea is to READ the cork
and ensure that the words on it are the same as on the label
of the wine bottle. You should also feel the cork to ensure
that it's wet. The custom originates in a time when some
restaurants would refill wine bottles with expensive labels
with less expensive wine. You check the cork to make sure
it matches the bottle and feel for wetness to ensure that the
cork didn't dry out and let air inside the bottle (that would
spoil the wine).
Tip for the Day: Spend some time alone.
Friday, February 16, 2001
Why do we say a computer or computer program has a
"bug" in it when it malfunctions?
Because once the problem really WAS a bug. In 1945, a
computer at Harvard malfunctioned and a woman
investigated and found a moth in one of the circuits.? She
removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a
computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
Giraffes can't swim.
99 percent of Americans own a television.
Tip for the Day: Before taking a long trip, fill your tank and empty
your
bladder.
Thursday, February 15, 2001
Your bedroom is the scene of about 40 percent of all
accidents in the home. No other spot in your home ranks
higher.
Lloyd Copeland is credited with developing
the microwave
oven. His granddaughter is Linda Ronstadt.
In colonial Boston, schoolteachers earned
about seven
cents per day.
Tip for the Day: When it comes to worrying or painting a picture, know
when to stop.
Wednesday, February 14, 2001
How did the tradition of Valentine's Day come about?
The tradition of Valentine's Day comes from St. Valentine. He
was a Roman who lived around the mid 200s AD Valentine was
supposedly martyred for secretly conducting Christian marriages
when Christianity still wasn't very popular round about 496
AD Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honor him.
Gradually, February 14 became the date for exchanging love
messages and St. Valentine became the patron saint of lovers.
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see
who
their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves
for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy
for other people to know how you are feeling.
Women DO prefer diamonds over chocolate.
Tip for the Day: Men, don't let your wives see this DDD.
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
The real name of television's Mister Ed was Bamboo
Harvester.
Jim Hogg, the governor of Texas from
1891 to 1895, named
his only daughter "Ima."
Your bedroom is the scene of about 40
percent of all
accidents in the home. No other spot in your home ranks
higher.
Tip for the Day: Open up to change, but don't let go of your values.
Monday, February 12, 2001
How much did someone pay recently for the Ryder truck
that was used to haul Palm Beach County ballots to
Tallahassee three weeks ago?
Budget Group Inc. says someone paid $67,100 in an online
auction for the Ryder truck that was used to haul Palm
Beach County ballots to Tallahassee three weeks ago.
Budget -- the parent group of Ryder -- put the truck up for
auction after getting several offers to buy it, and turned the
proceeds over to the American Red Cross on Monday. The
truck -- a 1999 Ford F 350 with 31,297 miles on it -- was
worth an estimated $17,000. It gained fame -- and value,
apparently -- as a result of its appearance in TV news
coverage of its 430-mile trip to the state capital, where the
ballots were to be used as evidence in Al Gore's legal
contest of the Florida election.
90 percent of a tree is made up of air with the rest being
made up of minerals from the soil.
Tip for the Day: Everyone deserves a birthday cake. Never celebrate
without
one. (except Rob would rather have an apple pie),
Sunday, February 11, 2001
Where did the expression "son of a gun" originate?
"Son of a gun" has its origins with sailors. When a ship was
in port for an extended period of time, wives and other
women were permitted to live on board with the ship's crew.
Occasionally, children would be born on board and a
convenient place for the birth to happen was between guns
on the gun deck. If the child's father was unknown, the child
was entered in the ship's log as "Son of a gun."
A gorilla sleeps about 70 percent of its twenty-three year life
span.
Tip for the Day: Be an original.
If that means being a little eccentric, so be it.
Saturday, February 10, 2001
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
"No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Tip for the Day: Be ruthlessly realistic when it comes to your finances.
Friday, February 9, 2001
Paprophobia is the fear of paper.
In 1958 as a fraternity initiation,
a bunch of MIT freshmen had to
see how many times one of their fellow students, Oliver Smoot, could
be laid
head-to-toe across the Harvard Bridge over Boston's Charles River.
They
reported the length of the bridge as '364.4 Smoots + 1 ear.' A bronze
plaque
on the bridge commemorates the event.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
"Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time
or
another."
Tip for the Day: Learn to bake bread. (Joan has mastered this one!)
Thursday, February 8, 2001
A patent has been issued on a 'Secret Keeping Machine.' Two people
know a
secret, but are reluctant to talk about it for fear of betraying a
confidence. They both tell their secrets to the computer, which lets
them
know if its the same one and they can safely discuss it.
The only Rebel pilot besides Luke to survive all three Star War films
was
Wedge Antilles, also the only other pilot to help destroy both Death
Stars.
The title 'Return of the Jedi' was changed from 'Revenge
of the Jedi'
when Lucas read a thesis by a college student explaining why the moral
code
of a Jedi Knight excludes revenge.
Tip for the Day: Drive carefully and follow all traffic laws when kids
are in
the car.
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most
definitions.
The very peak of the Washington Monument
is not stone at all, but a 100-ounce solid aluminum pyramid, constructed
as part of the monument's
lightning protection system. In the 1880s, aluminum was a rare metal,
selling for $1.10 per ounce and used primarily for jewelry.
The Americans of 1776 had the highest standard of living and the lowest
taxes in the Western World
"Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength."--Eric Hoffer
Tip for the Day: Hate sin, but love the sinner.
Tuesday, February 6, 2001
WAS THERE A MOTHER GOOSE?
Yes, according to legend. She was Elizabeth Goose, a New
England widow who married Isaac Goose, adopting a family of
10, and later bore 6 children. In 1719, her book of rhymes-Mother Goose's
Melodies for Children-was said to have been
published by her son-in-law. No copy of the book has been
found. A more likely choice for the originator of Mother
Goose is French author Charles Perrault. In 1697, he
published Tales of Mother Goose. The character in German
folklore, Frau Gosen, or else invented by Perrault himself.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
Tip for the Day: Never threaten unless you plan to back it up.
Monday, February 5, 2001
A shark is the only fish that blinks with both eyes.
How did the characters on Sesame Street Bert and Ernie get there name?
Bert and Ernie were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the
taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
Tip for the Day: Be 5 minutes early for all your appointments.
Sunday, February 4, 2001
Did you know......A rod is equal to 16 1/2 feet; 320 rods equal one
mile.
Where's the world's largest airport, covering 91 square miles?
In Saudi Arabia, near Riyadh.
The King Khalid International
Airport is more than four times the size of Bermuda.
In the Bahamas, they call a "banana wind" a strong wind--strong enough
to
blow fruit off the trees, but not as dangerous as a hurricane.
Tip for the Day: Don't go looking for trouble.
Saturday, February 3, 2001
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Tip for the Day: Know your limits.
Friday, February 2, 2001
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as
substitute for blood plasma.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Tip for the Day: Send a letter to Scott and our missionaries this week.
Thursday, February 1, 2001
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.......
.....................No kidding the way Margie snores!
Tip for the Day:
Park at the end of the parking lot when shopping and walk
for a little exercise.
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
WHAT KIND OF STATISTIC HAS BEEN SHARED BY U.S. PRESIDENTS WHO
HAVE HELD THE OFFICE IN 20-YEAR INCREMENTS SINCE 1840?
1840 - William Henry Harrison (Died in Office)
1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Assassinated)
1880 - James A. Garfield (Assassinated)
1900 - William McKinley (Assassinated)
1920 - Warren G. Harding (Died in Office)
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Died in Office)
1960 - John F. Kennedy (Assassinated)
1980 - Ronald Reagan (Survived assassination attempt).
WHAT IS THE FIRST BIRD MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE?
The raven. It appears in Genesis 8:7, when it is sent out
from the ark by Noah to see if the flood waters have abated.
Tip for the Day: Learn to forgive easily.
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
IF THE SEATED FIGURE IN THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON,
D.C., WERE TO STAND UP, HOW TALL WOULD IT BE?
If the seated figure in the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C. were
to stand
up It would be 28 feet tall. Lincoln himself stood 6 ft. 4 in.
.HOW MANY OF CANADA'S TEN PROVINCES DO NOT BORDER ON THE UNITED STATES?
Three--Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Tip for the Day: Pack a lunch.
Monday, January 29, 2001
WHO CAME IN SECOND TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT IN A 1945
FORTUNE MAGAZINE POLL TAKEN TO DETERMINE THE
MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN AMERICA?
The fictitious Betty Crocker, the symbol created in 1921 for
General Mills' baking products.
WHO WAS THE ONLY WOMAN IN HISTORY TO HAVE MARRIED
THE KINGS OF BOTH FRANCE AND ENGLAND?
Eleanor of Aquintaine. Her husbands were Louis VII of France
and Henry II of England.
Tip for the Day: Marry only once.
Sunday, January 28, 2001
Those famous "dogs playing poker" pictures were painted by an artist
named Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844-1937), whose nickname was "Cash."
What bird grows to a height of 8 feet and can weigh
in at 350
pounds?
? It's the ostrich, of course. In addition to coming in the large,
economy
size, ostriches are hearty enough to tolerate temperatures down to
about 20 below zero Fahrenheit and they can live to about age
50, even in the wild. Despite their size, captive birds can
thrive on about $75 worth of food a year.
Tip for the Day: When traveling, leave the good jewelry at home.
Saturday, January 27, 2001
Chewing Gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for up to three
hours.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody."
--Bill Cosby
Tip for the Day: Never miss as opportunity for someone to rub your
back..............and scratch your back............and then your legs
and
then your stomach and then...........
Friday, January 26, 2001
BY WHAT NAME WAS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER AGNES
GONXHA BOJAXHIU BETTER KNOWN?
Mother Teresa, India's "saint of the gutter".
WHAT DOES THE WORD KOALA MEAN IN AUSTRALIA'S
ABORIGINE LANGUAGE?
Koala means "no drink". This Australian marsupial gets all
the liquid it needs from the eucalyptus leaves it eats.
Tip for the Day:
Give a smile to everyone you see today.
Thursday, January 25, 2001
Why do we measure water depth in fathoms?
Do you ever get the feeling that you are in over your head?
That you just can't fathom something? That, in short, it's too deep?
There is something so elemental about the ocean depths that
we embrace it as a metaphor for the unknown or the unknowable.
But ancient mariners sometimes needed literally to plumb
the depths ? to see if a passage was safe for ships, for example.
Mariners determined depth by lowering a weighted rope until
it touched bottom and then marking the point on the rope
where it broke the surface. When they hauled in the rope
they extended their arms repeatedly, fingertip to fingertip,
along this length to measure it. They called this unit of
measurement a fathom, from an Anglo-Saxon word for embrace
(holding out your arms). Today we're more precise: a fathom
is six feet.
Tip for the Day: Count your change.
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from
each
salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Tip for the Day:
Spend at least two hours a week doing something you really
enjoy.
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties
of
pickles the company once had.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Tip for the Day: Compliment family.
Monday, January 22, 2001
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Tip for the Day: Be considerate to your neighbors.
Sunday, January 21, 2001
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE CHINESE PHRASE
"GONG HAY FOT CHOY"?
"Wishing you a prosperous New Year."
WHAT DID THE WRIGLEY COMPANY DO TO PROMOTE
ITS CHEWING GUM NATIONWIDE IN 1914?
It mailed Doublemint gum to everyone listed in U.S. phone books.
Tip for the Day: Listen with your heart.
Friday, January 19, 2001
CONGRESS FOUNDED THE NATION'S FIRST MINIMUM WAGE IN 1938.
WHAT WAS IT?
Twenty-five cents an hour.
HOW CAN YOU TELL A FISH'S AGE?
From the number of growth rings on each of its scales. Each
pair of rings represents a year--the dark narrow rings rep-
resent winter; the wider, lighter rings represent summer.
Tip for the Day:
Clean and organize at least one room a month in your home.
Thursday, January 18, 2001
WHO COINED THE WORD HELLO AND INTRODUCED IT AS
THE PROPER WAY TO ANSWER A TELEPHONE CALL?
Thomas Edison. Alexander Graham Bell favored ahoy but lost out
to Edison, whose hello was derived from halloo, the
traditional call to rouse hounds to the chase.
CAN A JEW BE EXCOMMUNICATED?
Yes. The Hebrew word for excommunication is herem; it
involves the cutting of all religious, social, and business
ties with someone considered to be dangerous to the community.
One of the most famous cases of herem involved the seventeenth-century
Dutch
philosopher Spinoza.
Tip for the Day: Listen more and talk less.
Wednesday, January 17, 2001
IN WEAVING, WHAT IS THE WEFT, OR WOOF?
It's the yarn that is threaded over and under the strands
of yarn that run parallel along the length of the cloth.
The parallel strands are known as the warp.
The barn owl--even though its ears can't be
seen is considered to have
the best hearing of any animal. Its face is dish-shaped, enabling the
owl to
receive sounds like sonar. However, the spotted owl is considered to
take
most like chicken.
More than one of every five of us pick the
topping off pizza before
downing it. Women are twice as likely as men to do so and younger folks
and
married people are much likelier than elderly people and singles to
do so.
Tip for the Day: Take a self defense class.
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
WHAT STRANGE PETS DID JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND HIS WIFE,
LOUISA, BRING WITH THEM TO THE WHITE HOUSE?
Several hundred silk worms, which the First Lady fed and
cared for while trying to make raw silk.
WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO HAVE
HIS PORTRAIT ENGRAVED ON A U.S. COIN?
Booker T. Washington, on a commemorative silver half-dollar
issued from 1946 to 1951.
Tip for the Day: Sometimes it's better NOT to give your opinion.
Monday, January 15, 2001
WHAT DID JOHN F. KENNEDY COMMISSION PIERRE SALINGER TO
DO ON THE EVE OF SIGNING THE CUBAN TRADE EMBARGO?
Buy and stockpile 1,500 Havana cigars.
THE WARMEST MONTH OF THE YEAR IN THE ARCTIC?
The month of July, when the average temperature is no more
than 50 degrees F, 10 degrees C.
Tip for the Day: Buy the same brand socks in the same color for everyday use.
Sunday, December 17, 2000
Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
In 1994, total pizza sales in the United States
exceeded $20 billion
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his book
"If I Ran the Zoo."
In 2000 BC, Egyptians used crocodile dung as
a contraceptive.
Tip for the Day: Learn a foreign language.
Saturday, December 16, 2000
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales
of "Happy Meals."
Long ago, the
people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw
beautiful young women into a volcano it would
stop erupting.
The dolphins that live in the Amazon River are
pink.
Tip for the Day: Wear sun block when you are
outside. Even in the winter.
Friday, December 15, 2000
Elephants are the only animal that can't
jump.
A new man-made
fountain opposite the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is now
the world's highest geyser, at 600 feet. The
geyser's is powered by three 800
HP pumps and discharges water at up to 200 feet
per second. The geyser will
keep 1,100 gallons of water, weighing 9,200 pounds,
in the air when in
operation.
Humans are the only animals that
cry tears.
Tip for the Day: Visit Rome at least once in
your lifetime.
Thursday, December 14, 2000
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
An estimated 80%
of animals on earth have six legs. The more than 10
quintillion bugs fall into some 800,000 species.
In Vermont, USA,
it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without
the written permission of their husbands.
Pigs can become alcoholics.
Tip for the Day: Hug a friend today.
Tuesday, December 12, 2000
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed
set of teeth.
The word electricity
derives from the Greek word 'elektron' meaning
amber. The Greeks noted that rubbing amber produced
a static charge.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San
Diego.
Tip for the Day:
Save some of your child's childhood toys for
when they get
married and have their own children.
Monday, December 11, 2000
Something like 4% of what you spend on any given
product goes to pay
for the packaging.
Nobel laureate
physicist P.A.M. Dirac was married to the sister of
Nobel Laureate physicist Eugene Wigner.
A water-balloon filled with one cubic foot of
water weighs 62.4 lbs.
Tip for the Day:
Have family traditions.
Sunday, December 10, 2000
Less than 7% of the population donates blood
Human blood travels 60,000 miles per day on its
journey through the
arteries, arterioles and capillaries and back
through the venules and veins.
The United States
has 5% of the world's popluation, yet consumes 25%
of it's energy supply................and their
point is?
Tip for the Day:Visit a zoo once a year.
Saturday, December 9, 2000
The words "assassination"and "bump" were invented
by Shakespeare.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
From the Middle Ages up until the end of the
19th century, barbers performed
a number of medical duties including bloodletting,
wound treatment,
dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting.
The barber's striped red pole
originates in the Middle Ages, when it was a
staff the patient would grip
while the barber bled the patient.
Tip for the Day: Recycle- make it a family priority.
Friday, December 8, 2000
The queen termite can live up to 50 years
and have 30,000 children every day
and 500,000,000 children in its life.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Why are those
gossip-hunting spies called eavesdroppers? It is because
in Middle English, the water that falls from
the eaves of a house was called
eavesdrop, and eavesdropper was first used
to describe someone who would
stand close to a house in order to hear what
was going on inside.
Tip for the Day: Pull weeds in your garden
or landscape once a week for 15
minutes.
Thursday, December 7, 2000
A sparrow has more bones in its neck than a giraffe.
Cockroaches favorite
foods are the glue on the back of stamps &
envelopes.
Kurdish villages in northern Iraq are currently
(1993) being overwhelmed
by an invasion of thousands of poisonous snakes
including rattlesnakes and
yellow vipers. The snakes moved into buildings
destroyed by Saddam Hussein's
troops and proliferated following an unusually
mild winter.
Tip for the Day: Never bite or chew ice.
Wednesday, December 6, 2000
HOW MUCH IS THE HUMAN BODY WORTH?
Newspaper columnists and others have claimed
that the body's
chemical worth is between 98 cents and $5. But
one doctor
argues that, at the rates currently charged by
large chemical
distributors, the body's worth is at least $169,834
- not
counting $1,200 worth of blood. The key is to
market the
body's products intelligently and not reduce
them to basic
elements like carbon and zinc........Yeah that's
it!
The first professional football player was William
"Pudge"
Heffelfinger, who made his professional debut
for the
Allegheny Athletic Association on November 12,
1892.
He was paid $500 for his performance against
the
Pittsburgh Athletic Club, in which he led his
team to
victory, 4-0.........................4-0?
The only father & son to be in the White House
were John Adams and John
Quincy Adams.................not any longer dude!
Tip for the day: NEVER pop your gum when chewing!
Tuesday, December 5, 2000
The Piraroa Indians of Venezuela roast tarantulas
over an open fire and eat them. They taste like nuts.
Risk of having
a heart attack is 50% higher on Mondays.
The Vampire Bat has chemicals in its saliva to
prevent the victim's blood
from clotting for 2-3 minutes.
Tip for the Day: When buying a computer, always
buy one faster (processor)
and bigger (hard drive) than you think you'll
need.
Tip for the Day:
Keep a World History book in your home library.
Sunday, December 3, 2000
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The home team must provide the referee with 24
footballs for each
National Football League game.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Tip for the Day:
Make a real effort to do something better today
than you did yesterday.
Saturday, December 2, 2000
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) was the first bacillus
ever seen and identified under the microscope. The discovery by Robert
Koch in 1876 led Louis Pasteur to developed an attenuated anthrax vaccine,
the first such vaccine. This in turn led him to develop the rabies vaccine.
Anthrax is a highly infectious animal disease which can be transmitted
to humans on contact.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will
breathe 23,040 times;
exercise 7 million brain cells;
and speak 4,800 words...........and fart 7 times!
Tip for the Day: Take your vitamins.
Tuesday, November 28, 2000
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by
a
lightning strike.
The clippings from one acre of grass can produce 235 pounds of nitrogen,
77
pounds of phosphorus and 210 pounds of potassium in a single season.
You spend approximately one seventh of your life on Mondays.
Tip for the Day: Send your Christmas cards by the end of the month (except
us).
Monday, November 27, 2000
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They
hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
Tip for the Day: A parents role is one of more than teaching and less
preaching, more listening and less lecturing, more discussion and fewer
demands, more praise and less punishment. -Andeth Greene Kapp
Thursday, November 23, 2000
Did you know that the IRS has a "Dinah Shore
Rule." A dress can be
deducted as a professional expense if it is too
tight to sit down in. The
ruling was issued after singer Shore deducted
gowns worn in public
appearances as business expenses and insisted,
when challenged by the IRS,
that they were only worn onstage while performing.
If Benjamin
Franklin had had his way, the Eagle would not be the
symbol of the United States. In 1789 he proposed
that it be replaced by the
turkey.
Chickens and turkeys
have been known to crossbreed. A friend in
Florida has some and he calls the 'turkins'.
This is really
sad but...........100% of all commercially bred Turkeys
are Artificially Inseminated. Why? The Toms (male
turkeys) have been bred to
have abnormally large breasts. Because of this
they can no longer come close
enough to mate.
Tip for the Day: Consideration for others means
taking a wing instead of the
drumstick.
Wednesday, November 22, 2000
How ar US highways numbered?
Odd-numbered highways
move north and south, while those with
even numbers move east and west. Highways with
one or two-
digit numbers are through routes, often long
ones used for
distance driving. Three-digit routes that begin
with an even
number are usually beltways around a city. Three-digit
routes
that begin with an odd number are spur routes
in a city or
town.
All 2700 species of snakes, originated from one
species millions and millions
of years ago.
Tip for the Day: Live dangerously at least once a month.
Tuesday, November 21, 2000
The typical person spends 35-40 minutes
in the grocery store. Every
minute thereafter you will spend about $2 per
minute.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet
while they're still sitting
on it.
Tip for the Day: Say something every day that encourages your children.
Monday, November 20, 2000
9% of Americans report having been in the
presence of a ghost.
There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.
The Earth's magnetic field is not permanent. It
reverses polarity every few
hundred thousand years.
Tip for the Day: Remember that much truth is spoken in jest.
Sunday, November 19, 2000
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had
been over mixing the soap
formula causing excess air bubbles that made
it float. Customers wrote and
told how much they loved that it floated, and
it has floated ever since.
The underwater mating song of the toadfish is
so loud that sometimes it can
be heard by humans on the shore.
Knitted socks discovered in
Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back
as far as the 3rd century AD
Tip for the Day: Give generously.
Saturday, November 18, 2000
There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color
combinations possible on a
Rubik's Cube.
The "huddle" in football was
formed due a deaf football player who used
sign language to communicate and his team didn't
want the opposition to see
the signals he used and in turn huddled around
him.
Ever been laying in bed, almost asleep and
your leg jerks ? It's a
conditiion called "hypnagogic myoclonus".
Tip for the Day: Think quickly, love simply and
commit yourself to a mighty
purpose.
Friday, November 17, 2000
Did you know that different species have different
colors of blood.
The blood of mammals is red,
the blood of insects is
yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
Ever wonder where gangster
got the scar on his cheek?
Al ("Scarface") Capone claimed he received the
scar while
fighting with the Last Battalion in France during
World War I.
Actually, he was knifed in Brooklyn while working
as a bouncer
in a saloon -- in a fight over a woman, Capone
never served in
World War I.
The world's largest (though
not the tallest) office building is World
Trade Center in New York City. Each of its twin
towers contains 4.37 million
square feet of space.
Experienced waitress say that married men tip
better than unmarried men.
Tip for the Day: Love deeply...................Whatever
the heck that means?
Thursday, November 16, 2000
Maine is the only state that borders only
one state.
Rubies are more valuable than sapphires because
they are more rare. The best
come from Burma. Opals are valued for their color
flashes. The finest opals
in the world come from Australia.
It is illegal to swim in central park.
There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York
City in 1994.
The first coin minted in the
United States was a silver dollar. It was
issued on October 15, 1794.
Tip for the Day: Remember that all important truths are simple.
Tuesday, November 14, 2000
If you took a standard slinky and stretched
it out, it would measure 87 feet.
The average surface temperature of the earth climbed
to a record high in
1995, 58.7 degrees. Moreover, the years 1991
through 1995 were warmer than
any similar five-year period, including the two
half decades of the 1980s,
the warmest decade yet recorded.
The underwater mating song
of the toadfish is so loud that sometimes it
can be heard by humans on the shore.
Tip for the Day: Plant more flowers than you pick.
Monday, November 13, 2000
The first automobile to cross the United States
took 52 days and did it
in 1903. They trip went from NYC to San Francisco.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
was among the first Westerners to become
addicted to tobacco. He was so fond of the evil
weed that he refused to stop
smoking even while being executed. His pipe was
reportedly found clenched
between his teeth even after his head was removed
from his body by the ax.
The capital of N. Carolina, the leading tobacco
producer in the US, bears his
name.
The first coin minted in the
United States was a silver dollar. It was
issued on October 15, 1794.
Tip for the Day: Don't eat anything covered in
chocolate unless you know
what's inside.
Sunday, November 12, 2000
The words for north, south, east and west are
the same in English as in
Chinese and Brazil's Tupi Indians.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Texas has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than twice as large hasn't any.
Tip for the Day: Never call anyone stupid, even when your kidding.
Saturday, November 11, 2000
The average cost of having a recreational boat
towed if it breaks down on the
water is $263.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners
sent their laundry to Honolulu
for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely
high costs in California
during these boom years it was deemed more feasible
to send the shirts to
Hawaii for servicing.
Tip for the Day: Get wise before you get old.
Friday, November 10, 2000
Experienced waitress say that married men tip
better than unmarried men.
Moose are the most anti-social animal, they
do not hang out with other
moose. The procreation ritual is simple, the
female moose calls out, male
moose come running, the female picks, and within
a few moments they all go on
their way.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
Tip for the Day: Never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on.
Thursday, November 9, 2000
The release of Star Wars in 1977 was beset by
many problems, not the
least being lack of enthusiasm by the film's
distributors. In fact, so sure
were they that the film would not appeal to a
mass audience they wanted to
split it into 20 minute segments and release
it as a kids' Saturday morning
serial.
The most popular name for a boat in 1996 was
Serenity.
Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States in 1789.
Tip for the Day: Don't forget to vote!
Wednesday, November 8, 2000
The black mamba snake of southern Africa has
been said to move 25 to 30 miles
per hour while chasing a man on horseback.
Who built the
Taj Mahal?
It was built between 1632 and 1650 in Agra, India,
by Shah
Jahan as a tomb for his wife. The marble structure
is
considered a superb representation of the Mogul
style.
Cleo and Caesar were
the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Tip for the Day: Weigh yourself everyday.
Tuesday, November 7, 2000
All doors exiting a public building must swing
outwards. That way if
there is a fire, or something else to cause a
stampede, no one will get
crushed, by everyone else trying to get out,
while they are trying to pull
the door open.
The first nation to receive
foreign aid in 1812. They were fighting for
independence from Spain and had a devastating
earthquake.
A pregnant goldfish is called
a twit.
Tip for the Day: Never refuse a holiday dessert.
Monday, November 6, 2000
The black mamba snake of southern Africa has
been said to move 25 to 30 miles
per hour while chasing a man on horseback.
Who built the
Taj Mahal?
It was built between 1632 and 1650 in Agra, India,
by Shah
Jahan as a tomb for his wife. The marble structure
is
considered a superb representation of the Mogul
style.
Cleo and Caesar were
the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Tip for the Day: Weigh yourself everyday.
Sunday, November 5, 2000
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WHO IS THE "TOOTSIE" OF TOOTSIE ROLLS?
It is Clara Hirschfield, the daughter of the
candy's creator,
Leo Hirschfield, who had given her this pet name.
He gave the
name to the candy as well, which entered the
American market
in 1896.
`The 1984 film
"Red Dawn" is considered the most violent movie ever
made. It was directed by John Milius and contains
134 acts of violence per
hour, or 2.23 per minute.
How much does a 1-carat diamond weigh? Any guesses?????
It weighs 200 milligrams, or 3.086 grains troy.
The measurement
originally represented the weight of a seed of
the carob tree.
Tip for the Day: Sisters--Learn the difference
between diamonds and CZ.
Saturday, November 4, 2000
Men working on railroad track repair groups are
called "gandy
dancers."
There have been four US Presidents that have
been assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A.
Garfield in 1881,
William McKinley in 1901, and John
F. Kennedy in 1963.
John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company was considered
the first monopoly in
the United States. In which it made him the wealthiest
person in the United
States and allowed him to found the Astor Library,
one of the cornerstones of
the New York Public Library.
Tip for the Day: Shave facial hair.
Friday, November 3, 2000
Ever contemplate how hot the sun is? At its surface,
the sun is about
7,640 degrees Fahrenheit. In the sun's interior,
temperatures can range above 18 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Shooting stars
are not stars, they are meteorites -- particlesfrom
space entering and burning up in the earth's
atmosphere.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Tip for the Day: Listen to talk radio in the car and less music. You might actually learn something.
Saturday, October 28,
2000
The "L. L." in L. L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The Church regarded the knight
as her defender against evil. The dragon
was often seen as the symbol of evil, so many
stories of this period told of
brave knights doing battle with dragons.
The Eiffel tower grows six inches every year.
In the summer the metal expands
to make the tower grow but also in the winter
the metal contracts to shrink
the tower back down.
Tip for the Day: You will be heard more with
a softer voice and tone.
Thursday, October 26, 2000
Most people know that the legendary trumpet player
Louis Armstrong was
nicknamed Satchmo. However, did you know that
Satchmo was short for Satchel
Mouth?
The world's smallest mammal
is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing
less than a penny.
Armadillos have four babies
at a time and they are always the same sex.
Tip for the Day: Think nice.
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Crossword puzzles are said to be the 'most
popular and widespread word
game in the world,' yet has a short history.
The man credited with inventing
the crossword puzzle was a journalist named Arthur
Wynne from Liverpool. His
first crossword appeared in a Sunday newspaper,
the New York World, on
December 21, 1913.
Soap Operas are so called
because they were originally used to advertise
soap powder. In America in the early days of
TV, advertisers would write
stories around the use of their soap powder.
Tip for the Day: Be nice.
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
The first book of crosswords was introduced
on April 10, 1924, for a
steep $1.35 per book and each one came with a
freshly sharpened pencil. The
publishers, Simon and Schuster, were advised
to use an alias for their first
run because their advisors were skeptical and
thought it might fail, ruining
them in the publishing industry. They took the
advice and named themselves
Plaza Printing Company. Within three months,
book sales reached an
astonishing 40,000! Needless to say, the editions
of crossword puzzle books
that followed bore their real name.
To celebrate the New Year
in Tibet, Buddhist monks create elaborate
yak-butter sculptures depicting a different story
or fable each year. The
sculptures reach 30 feet high and are lit with
special butter lamps. Awards
are given for the best butter sculptures.
In the classic movie,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the bridge keeper
asks what the capital of Assyria is. The capital
of Assyria is Kalah, modern
day Nimrud.
Tip for the Day: Don't buy it on sale if you
DON'T need it.
Monday, October 23, 2000
James Watt did not
invent the steam engine; Thomas Newcomen did,
in 1712. By 1778, more than seventy Newcomen
engines were pumping away in the
mines of Cornwall alone. When Watt was asked
to repair a Newcomen engine, he
devised a modified engine that was much more
efficient and that could be used
to turn wheels. This modified steam
engine was so useful that the earlier Newcomen
engine was soon forgotten.
The longest baseball game
on record was a game running eight hours and
six minutes was played by the Chicago White Sox
and the Milwaukee Brewers in
May 9, 1984. The White Sox won, 7-6.
On average, 160 couples get married in Las Vegas
each day.
Tip for the Day: Marry only once, but make it
last an eternity!
Sunday, October 22, 2000
In the middle ages, 'nunchion' was the
word for liquid lunches. It was a
combination of the words 'noon scheken,' or noon
drinking. In those days, a
large chunk of bread was called lunch. So if
you ate bread with your
nunchion, you had what we still today call a
luncheon.
The name of the horse pictured
on the Wyoming license plate is: Steamboat
In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell of
Sussex, England became the first person in
history to discover a dinosaur fossil while correctly
identifying it as
something that was a part of a large reptile;
earlier discoveries were
identified as giant men, dragons, and other such
large, dead things. However,
her husband, Dr. Gideon Mantell, took credit
for the discovery and identified
the teeth that she found as part of an Iguanodon.
Later, he wrongfully
identified a body part as a horn, which turned
out to be part of the
creature's thumb.
Tip for the Day: Help your children understand
their homework without doing
it for them.
Saturday, October 21, 2000
40 below is the only temperature common to both
Celcius and Fahrenheit
scales.
Comoto Dragons have two male
sex organs.
Onions, onions, who's got the onions?
Did you know that California produces
25 percent of the nation's onions and 43 percent
of the nation's green onions?
A hat trick originally meant
three goals scored in a row, with no
intervening goals by the other team. We use it
to mean three goals scored by
the same player.
Tip for the Day: Make your dinner the smallest
meal of the day.
Friday, October 20, 2000
There is an annual
spitting-for-distance contest held in
Raleigh, Mississippi. Every year, individuals
compete to see
who can spit the farthest, most accurately, and
most compactly.
The record to date, held by Don Snyder, is 25
feet 10 inches.
Snyder's prize? A gold-plated spittoon.
The anaconda or water boa
can grow to 30 feet in length and can take on a
jaguar... and win!
Hitler owned 9000 acres of
land in Colorado (I don't know about that??).
Tip for the Day: Buy in bulk when possible.
Thursday, October 19, 2000
Eagle owls have been known to catch a full grown
fox, hawks, and even
other species of owl!
In his will, Shakespeare left
his wife his second best bed.
If you think snakes are slimy, you're wrong.
They are warm and dry.
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male
and gradually turns
female as it grows up.
One new McDonald's opens
somewhere in the world every six hours.
Adult cats shed their coats three times a year
spring, summer, and in autumn.
Tip for the Day: Always wash under clothing first
when all your clothes are
dirty.
Tuesday, October 17, 2000
The middle name of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother, is Angela.
Until 1997, China was the
country with most pigs in the world:
424,680,000! The US was in second place with
59,992,000 pigs.
Kangaroos are found
in Australia and New Guinea. Most are terrestrial
and all are herbivorous, grazing and browsing
for their food.
Telemarketers interrupt and
waste the time of up to 200 people a day,
without their permission, to obtain a single
sale or sales lead. To them, it
is merely a cost of doing business.
Tip for the Day:When a telemarketer calls, simply
state immediately that you
are on a "DO-NOT-CALL-LIST." They MUST
end the call at that moment.
Monday, October 16, 2000
The Union ironclad, Monitor, was the first
U.S. ship to have a flush toilet.
In the movie The Blue
Lagoon, with Brooke Shields and Christopher
Atkins, Christopher walked in a cut-out trench
in their scenes because Brooke
was so much taller than he was.
Five of
the top 15 selling cookies are Girl Scout Cookies!
Tip for the Day: Attend all family functions
if at all reasonably possible.
Saturday, October 14, 2000
Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins hockey
team was the first pro athlete to
be indicted for a crime during a play in a sports
match.
He was alleged to have used aggressive force
on an opponent.
On July 18, 1975, his trial for a criminal assault
ended in a hung jury.
Ever
wonder hoe long it would take to walk around the world?
It took David Kunst a little
over four years -- from June 10,
1970, to October 5, 1974. One other man - George
Schilling -
claimed in an unconfirmed report to have accomplished
the feat
between June 1987 and June 1904.
The Smithsonian National Museum
of Natural History houses the world's
largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens.
A smaller museum in
Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells
and claims to be the worlds
only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
Tip for the Day: When traveling to Mexico or any
country for that matter,
leave a detailed itinerary and the numbers of
your passport or other
citizenship documents with a friend or relative
in the United States.
Saturday, October 7, 2000
A US House subcommittee determined that
the chances your doctor is a
phony are 1 in 50.
Did you know that you
are just as likely to fall out of bed and die, as
you are to get hit by lightning and die?
Boys who have unusual first
names are more likely to have mental problems
than boys with common names. Girls don't seem
to have this problem.
The odds of having twins are
1 in 90. Having quintuplets are 1 in 85
million. Getting a twin like Dan is like.................
like...............
(What's that statistic of being struck and killed
by lightning again)?
Tip for the Day: Watch your back.
Friday, October 6, 2000
If you are over 100 years old, there is
an 80% chance you are a woman.
Pregnant mothers who eat heavily spiced foods
or foods with lots of seasoning
are more likely to have children born with hair
on their head.
Once a camel is beaten
by a person, it will never forget that person. It
will try to attack whoever beat him whenever
the chance arises. Some camels
have been known to kill their owners years after
they were beaten. This is
sometimes known as 'camel vengeance," .......................or
more
precisely, "female camel vengeance."
Thursday, October 5, 2000
You're more likely to get stung by a bee
on a windy day that in any other
type of weather.
Men are 1.6 times more
likely to undergo by-pass surgery than women.
Not sure about this................Andrew Jackson
was the first President to
be the object of an assassination attempt. Jackson
had attended a funeral,
and a man named Richard Lawrence came up to him
and fired a pistol at
pointblank range. The pistol misfired, and before
anyone could react,
Lawrence pulled another pistol and it too misfired!
Instead of running or
taking cover, President Jackson preceded to beat
the man over the head with
his cane.
Tip for the Day: When company are coming over
and the house is a
mess. Clean floors and hallways first.
Wednesday, October 4, 2000
I'm sure you are all wondering how Manhattan,
New York got it's name?
Well, it's a derivative of the Indian word Manahachtaniek,
which means "the
island where we all get drunk." It's apparently
referring to a spirited
encounter between the Native Americans and some
newly arrived Dutchmen.
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis
were married by Little Richard.
The only diamond mine in North America is in
Arkansas.
Tip for the Day: Both men and women can forgive.
But a woman NEVER forgets.
Tuesday, October 3, 2000
According to George Eastman, founder of
Eastman Kodak, the
name Kodak is his invention: "I knew a trade
name must be short,
vigorous, incapable, of being misspelled...and
in order to
satisfy trademark laws, it must mean nothing...
The k had
been a favorite with me -- it seemed a strong,
incisive sort
of letter...Then it became a question of trying
out a great
number of combinations of letters that made words
starting
and ending with k." The name Kodak is the result.
Ever wonder how Shell Oil
got it's name?
The company that eventually bore the name Shell
Oil Company
was originally a novelty shop in London called
the Shell Shop.
In the mid-1800s, shop owner Marcus Samuel became
successful
selling boxes of pretty seashells. Imported shells
also
brought in money, and his international trade
business really
expanded when he found he could also export kerosene.
The Shell
Shop became Shell Transport and Trading Company
- and
eventually Shell Oil Company.
Tip for the Day: Be the first to introduce yourself
and you will gain many
friends.
Monday, October 2, 2000
A regulation bowling pin need only tilt
7.5 degrees to fall over.
The Cleveland browns are the
only football team never to have a symbol,
mascot, or name on their football helmets.
This is what they tell incoming
freshman at Albright College during
orientation----I kid you not!.......Albright
College in Reading, PA is
located on the only street listed in Guinness
Book of Records as "The only US
street in which you can live your entire life."
The road has neighborhoods, a
hospital, an elementary school, a middle school,
a high school, a college, at
least one church, various businesses (employment),
and a cemetery. You can
live your whole life and not leave 13th Street..........I
hope they also have
a large building with lots of padded rooms!
Tip for the Day: NEVER give your medical history
or ask advise when talking
to a doctor unless he asks you for it!
Sunday, October 1, 2000
I don't believe
this but, the term, "It's all fun and games until
someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The
only rule during wrestling
matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else
was allowed. The only way to
be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
The lake that Jack Dawson
(movie: Titanic) talked about ice fishing in
is a man-made lake that wasn't made until 1917.
That was after the Titanic
sank.
In 1996, over 87 million Americans
participated more than once in some
type of recreational boating activity (fishing,
sailing, motorboating, water
skiing, canoeing, taxidermy, knitting and my
personal favorite-hammer
throwing)!
Tip for the Day: Definitely watch some Olympics.
Saturday, September 30, 2000
We all know that us Brooke's
have been blessed with nicely defined,
sometimes imposing gluteus maximus. But did you
know that there are three
gluteus muscles - They are the large, fleshy
muscles of the buttocks that
connect the hipbone (the pelvic girdle) and the
thighbone (the femur). The
gluteus maximus is the muscle at the surface
of the buttocks, below which is
the gluteus medius. The gluteus minimus is below
that.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STALAGMITE AND A STALACTITE?
Both are elongated deposits
of minerals at points where
slowly dripping water enters a void. Stalagmite
build from
the bottom of such a cavity; stalactites hang
from the
ceiling. When the same dripwater source creates
both a
stalactite and a stalagmite, the two may meet
and form a
column.
The United States won all
the Nobel Prizes in 1976.
Tip for the Day: It is better to look good and
be a little late than to be on
time and look like Rob in his 60's clothes and
dorky haircut.
Friday, September 29, 2000
"A doctor advises a patient;
'You want to improve your love
life? Get some exercise. Run ten miles a day.'
Two weeks later,
the man called the doctor. The doctor says 'How
is your love
life since you have been running?' 'I don't know,
I'm 140 miles
away."- Henry Youngman
Strong and light, the
skeleton of the average person accounts
for less than 20 percent of body weight.
What us Americans know as
the inch-(from Latin uncia, or "12th part")
was defined as 1/12 foot by the Romans. It was
roughly a
thumb's breadth, while a foot was roughly the
length of a
human foot. The Romans introduced the inch to
Britain, where
it was incorporated into the English system of
weights and
measures. The English made their own contribution
to inch
lore: In 1305, King Edward I decreed that an
inch should be
the measure of three dried barleycorns.
Tip for the Day: Wear clean socks and underwear!
Today is Thursday, Sept. 28, the 272nd day of
2000. There are 94
days left in the year.
Flamingos feed with their
hook-shaped bill by holding their head
upside-down and scooping through mud and shallow
water; ridges on their bill
act to filter debris.
There are more plastic
flamingos in America than real ones.
The custom of giving teachers apples originated
when public school teachers
were paid with whatever the community could afford,
often in food or goods.
Tip for the Day: Learning to type is a good investment
of time.
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 27, the 271st day of
2000. There are
95 days left in the year.
Did you know the origins of the word "goodbye"
is a contraction of the
sixteenth-century phrase "God be with ye."
What do the folllowing crayon colors have in common---maise,
raw-umber, lemon
yellow, blue gray, violet, blue, green-blue,
orange-red, and orange-yellow?
They were the first colors
ever dropped from the crayola line.
They were replaced in 1990 with bolder colors
- cerulean,
dandelion, wild strawberry, vivid tangerine,
fuchsia, teal
blue, royal purple and jungle green.
According to Aristotle, What
determined whether a baby would turn out to
be a boy or a girl?.......................wind
direction
Tip for the Day: Clip coupons! They really do add up savings.
Today is Monday, Sept. 25, the 269th day of 2000.
There are 97
days left in the year.
The hottest temperature ever recorded was
136 degrees (Fahrenheit) in Libya
on Sept. 13, 1922. The coldest temperature of
-128 degrees was recorded in
Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
The first Bryan Baptist
Church in Savannah lays claim to being the
oldest African-American church in the United
States. It was established in
1788, and services are still held. [Boston Globe]
Damascus is thought to be
the oldest city of the world. The origin of the
city is unknown. However its foundation is attributed
to Josephus Uz, the son
of Aram.
Tip for the Day: Learn to tie a truckers knot.
Today is Monday, Sept. 25, the 269th day of 2000.
There are 97
days left in the year.
The ancient Egyptians would put their right
hand on the onion when taking
an oath. It's round shape symbolized eternity.
Did you know that Jimi Hendrix
was the last act to perform at the 3-day
Woodstock Festival in New York in 1969. He sang
the "The Star-Spangled
Banner."
The liquid hydrogen in the Space Shuttle main engine is -423
degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees Centigrade),
the second coldest liquid on
Earth, and when burned with liquid oxygen, the
temperature in the engine's
combustion chamber reaches +6,000 degrees F.
(+3,316 degrees C.)
Tip for the Day: Being normal isn't necessarily a requirement.
Today is Saturday, Sept. 23, the 267th day of
2000. There are 99
days left in the year.
Zsa Zsa Gabor served three days in Jail
in 1989 for slapping a police
officer. She was also told to put her true age
on her drivers license or face
(or should I say facelift) losing it!
IN THE EARLY DAYS OF ENGLISH LAW, WHY DID
THE GRAND JURIES
SOMETIMES WRITE THE WORD IGNORAMUS ON THE BACK
IF INDICTMENTS?
Ignoramus is Latin for "we do not know." Jurors
wrote the word
on indictments when they found insufficient evidence
to indict.
According to the Guiness Book,
the fastest restaurant in the world serves
the client´s food within 13 seconds after
the order is made (in tables of
four). The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi
and is located in the
beautiful city of Guadalajara in Mexico.........just
don't drink the water!
Tip for the Day: You are NEVER to old to say Please and Thank You.
Today is Friday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2000.
There are 100
days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 1:27
p.m. EDT.
Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
'It depends on your definition
of asleep. They were not stretched out.
They had their eyes closed. They were seated
at their desks with their heads
in a nodding position.' -- John Hogan, Commonwealth
Edison Supervisor of News
Information, responding to a charge by a Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant operators
were sleeping on the job.
Homer Simpson works in Sector
7G at the nuclear power plant on "The
Simpsons."
Tip for the Day: Shining your