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How to get vistor visa for in-laws?

2010-05-21T22:18:00.000-07:00

Thanks 1st of all for replying.

My background: I am US citizen and wife is conditional green card (going to apply I-571 before 2 years).

We want to bring her parents over from China to visit United States.

I read that I can apply B2 visa for them?

How long does it take, the whole process?

How much does it cost?

What do they need to do in China?

If you have experience this, your step by step procedures is greatly appreciated.

How to get vistor visa for in-laws?
You may not apply a B2 visa for your in-laws. They will have to apply for themselves in China. It takes 30 days for a visitor visa to be processed in China. They will have to prove that they will return after their visit and have to show adequate funds to go on the trip. Everything you need to know is on the link I have attached.**
Reply:You do not have to file for anything. The applicants (who want the visa) have to apply for B2 visa from China. The forms are on USCIS website and also the detailed procedure is on us consulate website for the site in china.

Need help with something?

2010-05-21T22:17:00.003-07:00

Need help finding direct numbers and/or e-addresses to get my green card from INS and the number to get my birth certificate from china. Respond only if you have useful info

Need help with something?
These are the only people that can help you.

http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/
Reply:Toll Free 1 + 877.898.6937

local 713.874.1420

fax 713.874.1245

email info@texastower.net

This website out of Texas says they can obtain your birth certificate from China. Good luck.

Chinese student, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?

2010-05-21T22:17:00.002-07:00

Chinese student , grace wang, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?

2010-05-21T22:17:00.001-07:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24176485/

The story was she was trying to console anti china and pro china crowds.

A chinese student name grace wang of duke university has a father who is a Communist Party member.

My question is :

Is this just another attempt to fool the government in giving her and her family green cards?

If her father works for the government how much money does he actually make in order to be able to send her daughter to study in Duke and live in USA

Also when the parents apartment was attack, they can just move? It takes lots of money to be able to do that.

Chinese student , grace wang, Another cheap attempt to get americans tax money?
You're being completely ridiculous. She's a person with her own opinions on things, and if she doesn't agree with the overly nationalistic counter-protestors nor with the ill-informed pro-Tibet protestors, how does that give you the right to go around trashing her reputation? She's a college freshman, and it's disgusting how many idiots have decided to attack her and her family.

Why would she want green cards when her family is quite well off?!

And lots of government officials make a lot of money in China, just because you're a government official doesn't mean you're poor. No US Senators are anything even close to poor, most of them are multi-millionaires several times over, and it's no different when you're a high-ranking Communist Party official.

Seriously, get a reality check and stop dreaming up insane conspiracy theories. She's just a random college freshman behaving like an educated college student should.
Reply:well, I dont think she's after the greencard, but i REALLY believe she's after the fame.

I know people who lives in the same dorm with her, and apparently, she does not have a good reputation there within both the chinese and western circle. They say she lies all the time. Report It

Reply:I just think we need to stop giving so many green cards away ! Americans economy is currently in crises and many hard working americans who is working 2 jobs still can't keep ends meet. Report It

Reply:she just want a green card. and her family in china only have a average income so how can they support a daughter to study in US? i wander where the money come from?

did you know she also got a plastic surgery and changed her name become she come to US? Report It

Reply:wow, would you really believe a person in front of 2 mobs of people would be thinking about a greencard? Not everyone in the world is trying to abuse situations. I hope you can clarify your perspective on the world a bit as your post is so negative. I am amazed that you immediately question her families financial situation and even ability to escape harrassment. If someone attacked your families home, what would they do?
Reply:So, you read a story about persecution of Chinese protestors and the first thing you think is "I bet she's trying to cheat her way to my tax dollars"?

You're odd.

Get some perspective.

Some more "Useless Facts you Might Wanna Know" =D? #3?

2010-05-21T22:17:00.000-07:00

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Dart-boards are made out of horsehair.

Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Octopi have gardens.

"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.

Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.

in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck

A whale's penis is called a dork.

Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forestall curses.

The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

The only planet without a ring is earth.

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

A group of frogs is called an army.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of officers is called a mess.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Starfish don't have brains.

Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is:

Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye

Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.

The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."

Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;

Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).

Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,

Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),

Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her

Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.

Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.

The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.

A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.

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.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Turtles can breathe through their butts

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a two-way mirror?? Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, for it is a two-way mirror

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska!

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter:o?=o?= Tom Sawyer.

Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

In Massachusetts - It is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception.

Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand

Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters all have in common? A. All invented by women.

Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey

Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day

Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A.o?= He was allergic to carrots.

Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.o?= Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop

Some more "Useless Facts you Might Wanna Know" =D? #3?
Interstate 19 in Arizona is probably the only Interstate in the US with metric, not mileage, signs over its entire length.

Tex-Mex country star Freddie Fender's real name was Baldemar Huerta.

The University of Nevada was first located in Elko, NV.

Hoyle has actually only written the rules for three card games, even though he authors the book of rules. None of those three games include poker or bridge.

Charles Goodyear discovered "vulcanization", or dry heating of rubber, by accident in the family kitchen when he dropped a piece on the stove.

The first casino/hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was the El Rancho, built in 1941.

Engelbert Humperdinck was a stage name. Eddie Rabbitt's name was not.

Nevada's third state flag design, adopted in 1929, was a failure after adoption due to the error of not having the word "Nevada" on the flag. The current design is from 1915 (the second design).
Reply:Another doubtful fact. Did you study them or did you just copy and paste them? Can you give sources for all your "facts" other than another list of "facts"? Report It

Reply::)some lip sticks are made out of fish scales:P Report It

Reply:here's some other facts:

hair and fingernails grow faster in summer than winter

Americans spend 6 times more money on video games than school supplies

a bar-headed goose can fly as high as 30,000 feet

ur heart beats about 100,000 times per day

the word most written in the English language is 'the'

a million $1 bills weighs about 2,040 lbs.

there r more creatures in ur mouth than humans on Earth
Reply:The problem is that if you post erroneous information, people are going to doubt all your "facts".

There is no USGA or PGA regulation for the number of dimples on a golf ball.

"Go." is a sentence that is shorter than "I am."
Reply:Thanks its very helpful
Reply:whoa a lot more interesting than a book!! =)
Reply:you should leave a space after each fact so its clearer to read =)

U.S.A. Vs. Kyoto?

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Why does America still refuse to ratify Kyoto?

As one of the richest nations in the world, I don't understand why they still refuse to fight climate change. Given that 137 countries have signed inclusive of India and China, the USA remains the only notable exception from the treaty.

America is a very rich nation and could quite easily afford to turn 'green'. Imagine the ramifications if America curbedtheir military spending and used that money to help turn America 'green'.

Only recently, Australia signed Kyoto, to my disappointment it hadnt happened any earlier. How do Americans feel about this?

Are you keen to turn 'green'?

U.S.A. Vs. Kyoto?
Global warming is happening. The debate on this, by any intelligent being, is over. There is still some debate over how much human activity has contributed to it and how much can we change what is happening.

I, for one, believe we should err on the side of caution and do all we need to do to try to lessen the adverse effects of global warming. Should it later be found that mankind did not contribute to global warming, then the financial costs associated with this will be far less than costs associated with the global warming being a disaster to mankind and we could have lessened its effects. I would rather be wrong and recoup the costs later than to be right and have no chance at recouping the cost at all.
Reply:USA does not believe Al Gore even when he already won an Oscar. Americans do not believe that global warming is caused by pollution.
Reply:Typical of the "green crowd" you have left of a good bit of information. 174 countries have ratified Kyoto. 137, including China (2nd largest emissions) and India (4th largest emissions) have to do nothing more than monitor and report their levels of emissions. All Kyoto does is create a worldwide market for carbon credits, hence Al Gore's involvement, and force developed economies to foot the bill for the so-called un-developed economies. I'm glad Bush is sticking to his guns on this one.
Reply:It isn't just a Bush thing. Even before he took office, Clinton did not submit the treaty for ratification because Senate Republicans made it clear that it would not happen. And it's not just a Republican thing. Democrats haven't demonstrated much initiative either; they haven't even made it that high a priority.

The two main reasons offered by pols are: (1) it isn't fair for the U.S. to have to cut emissions while India and China are exempted from the treaty and (2) it would "seriously harm" the economy.

Conflicting economic analyses show that the latter point is debateable; as for the first, even if India and China signed on, the U.S. probably still would not ratify. First, the nations likely to suffer the most detrimental effects from global warming would be low-laying island nations -- not the U.S. Second, greenhouse gases result in large part from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, et al.) -- and we already know about the power wielded by energy industry lobbyists. Third, some legislators claim that global warming is not occuring, or that human activities do not contribute significantly enough to the problem to mandate any action.

I have always been a strong proponent of 'green' policies. Maybe the U.S. would take an economic hit at first but I think over time, the benefits (in terms of pollution, energy costs, and maybe even national security) would outweigh the costs.
Reply:From the different analyses of the Kyoto agreement that I've read, it seems to be as dubious as some of the "free trade" agreements we've entered or considered. Just as with some of the bills that get considered in congress, the stated goal isn't necessarily best met by the actual contents. I think there are sufficient reasons to doubt the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Kyoto agreement. That doesn't mean I don't think there should be actions taken -- just that I'm not convinced Kyoto is the smart way to do that.
Reply:Welcome to the Bush years.
Reply:The reason the US hasn't ratified Kyoto yet is that we elected a Republican president who values the US economy more than the environment. This is especially true since the Bush family and their friends made their fortune in the oil industry.

I'm keen to turn green. I'd love to see our dependence on oil replaced with bio-fuels. The advantage is that the carbon that is burned in bio-fuels is pulled out of the atmosphere by plants, instead of being extracted from underground where it hasn't been part of the carbon cycle for millions of years.
Reply:Of course India and China signed it. They were largely exempted from it's provisions.

Now, look at the nations that did sign and ratify it; Denmark (currently 35% above its target), Austria (34% above), Spain (22% above), Finland (21% above) and Italy (19% above), Canada (32% above) New Zealand (22% above), Japan (20% above).

And then there's the craziness that no one has demonstrated that CO2 is actually a problem or that reducing it will have any significant effect. The most "powerful" (assuming the measures that have been accepted for this are even remtely reflective of reality) greehnouse gas is water vapor. No one's talking about reducing that.

Question for environmentalists?

2010-05-21T22:16:00.002-07:00

This has been on my mind for some time now. China, India, North Korea, and all these other 3rd world countries in Africa and Asia are so filthy, so wasteful, and release SO MANY CARBOn emissions, but you never hear any environmentalists complain about them. Why not??

All you hear about is America. But the fact is, compared to most of the world, America is as pristine as a bar of soap compared to many of these places. We recycle, preserve many natural resources, consistently and constantly find ways to reduce energy spending, have innovations that are "green" or environment friendly, and we ourselves generally do our part to keep things nice.

Hell, China can't even make toys without loading volatile toxins in them. So where are your objections about the other countries that are so wasteful and immensly releasing about 50times the carbon emissions that we do????

Question for environmentalists?
You raise a worthwhile point.

Something you may not know is that the rules of the World Trade Organization treaty (which replaced the GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) don't allow countries to add restrictions or taxes on goods from other nations based on their environmental, labor or other practices. This makes a certain amount of sense (imagine trying to make even a cell phone to meet a patchwork of contradictory requirements!), but when China emits (by one estimate) 3.4 times as much carbon per unit of GDP than the US does, it's time to reconsider.
Reply:If you're talking greenhouse gas (specifically carbon) emissions, your facts are incorrect. China and the USA are essentially tied for the most total CO2 emissions. On a per capita basis, the US is by far the worst CO2 polluter of any major country. There are a few worse ones - mostly Middle East countries and US territories. These numbers are a bit old (2003), but give you a good idea what I'm talking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...

If you want to talk about other types of pollution, then China is worse than the USA. However, other types of pollution can have large particulates which block sunlight and cause global dimming which offsets a little bit of global warming. Bad for health, but good for slowing climate change.

As for the USA being green due to our innovations, what about our cars? We drive a bunch of gas guzzling SUVs around, while in other countries they drive little tiny fuel efficient cars. Hybrids are great, but only 1% of new car sales in the US are hybrids.

Sorry, but your perceptions of the US and other countries are simply inaccurate.
Reply:Interesting, isn't it? Do you realize that the reason President Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Accord (to limit CO2 emissions) was because China was exempt from it?
Reply:You must also consider capability. We get the majority of our taxes in the U.S. from rich people, while many poor people pay no taxes. Its not treating them equally because the poor have no money. China and North Korea have trouble feeding their people, providing energy etc. Making them follow the same rules as the developed countries is impossible for them. So should we not fight global warming because they can't?
Reply:You know we are the only country that matters. :)

Why do tree-huggers like myself focus on our country? Because it all starts at home. We have the technological and monetary ability to make our air, water and soil cleaner and safer.
Reply:You make valid points here, but I can make my preferences felt here, in my own country, through how my dollars are spent, how I vote, how I recycle and so on.

How do you propose that we force these other countries to go green, when many of them cannot ensure their own people their basic rights?
Reply:A lot of Americans, especially those in Hollywood have told about wrongs committed against the environment in other countries. I think that individual Americans should focus on their own habits. About the toxic toys, Americans buy them, and that is wasteful, along with the junky toys in Kids Meals.
Reply:All you hear about is America because it's the only country that matters. All the people that talk about China are being censored. No one talks about India because they are too busy talking in outsourced call centers. Anyone that talks about North Korea are executed.
Reply:"However, other types of pollution can have large particulates which block sunlight and cause global dimming which offsets a little bit of global warming."

Does this guy really believe this crap...or does he just post this stuff to a rise out of people like me. I can't believe that anybody would post such nonsense and actually believe it.
Reply:Having spent a considerable time in very poor places like Indonesia where they do not have a rubbish collection recycling is done at a local level not out of concern for the planet but because rubbish has value.These are countries with no social support for the very poor. Plastics and other man made materials have replaced local bio degrable packaging materials such as banana leaves and plastic waste can be found all over or be seen being burnt. The majority of the people i met had little education and could not understand why it was bad to burn plastic. Plastics etc have risen in 3rd world countries as developed countries send products over as they are cheaper for us never mind the impact it has on the local population. 200 years ago in the UK in our industrial revolution the uk polluted rivers, exploited people and generally acted in many of the ways in which these developing countries act. When they argue that they are being pressuirzed into developing in a more sustainable way which is more costly i can see their point. Many of these " bad" countries arent worried about the environment only about feeding themselves and their families, environmental concern is a pergotive of only the rich!!
Reply:If we never hear about 3rd world polution, then how is it that you can quote it and everyone immediately believes you?

The reason is that 3rd world pollution is well documented, and of great concern to environmentalists.

Bush didn't sign the Kyoto agreement for good reason, but that reason wasn't China. The Kyoto agreement would put a heavier burden on the U.S. than other countries because we are the highest per capita.

Instead of rewarding improvement, the Kyoto agreement punished those of us that are advanced enough to drive cars and use air conditioning.

I'm for change, but not Kyoto, it was blatantly unfair the the U.S.

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Does oolong tea realy help you loose weight? If so where can I buy it in the UK?

2010-05-21T22:16:00.001-07:00

Hi.

I have just been told that oolong tea is 250% more effective for loosing weight than green tea and nettle tea. I have been drinking nettle tea over 6 months now and have definately seen the benefits since I have lost half a stone without changing my diet or exercising more. If it's true that oolong tea is 250% more effective then I'd love to know where I can buy it from in the UK? I have read that if it comes from or has anything to do with China to stay well away as it could do you more harm than good due to the chemical filled soil that they grow it in over there.

Does anyone know where I can buy this tea not grown in China? If so can you buy it from any health food shops over the counter or do you have to get it online? I'd prefer it if I could buy it in a shop or supermarket then I know exactly what I'm getting, I'm a bit funny about buying things like this online.

Thanks to anyone who can help me with this xxx

Does oolong tea realy help you loose weight? If so where can I buy it in the UK?
i have bought it off ebay and omg i would never try it or advise anyone else to lets just say only reason you might lose some weight is for the fact that you cant get off the toilet ! i stopped using it but if you really want to try it then ebay sell it from the uk good luck if you decide to try it

I need opinions on decorating my kitchen. What is the best color or metal for my cabinet hardware?

2010-05-21T22:16:00.000-07:00

I have white cabinets and black counter tops. The floors are dark hardwood and the walls are painted a medium shade of sage green with white trim. All appliances are white so are my table and china hutch. What is the best color or metal for my cabinet hardware?

I need opinions on decorating my kitchen. What is the best color or metal for my cabinet hardware?
I would go with black iron hardware this is a nice way to tie your countertops in with the rest of the kitchen.
Reply:Pewter
Reply:Buffed Metal.

Or Stainless Steal (you cant go wrong with it)
Reply:I would get sage green or green glass or plastic knobs(that look like glass) or a silver shade of metal. No brass or gold tone.

**I also like sizzlin's answer.
Reply:If you can find the exact colour green on your walls, I would go with them. If not then how about black iron. If you really want to be creative get the black iron then add some green to them as an accent. You can se the same paint you did on the walls, with a small detail brush. When it dries use spray polyurethane over it to protect it. You would have a totally unique accent.
Reply:chrome silver thats what our kitchen is. Your kitchen sounds really nice ours is white cabinets and light beige counters the hardware is chrome silver and our kitchen is a yellowish color we are doing grapes and wines like an olive garden theme
Reply:Why don't you go with a dark red Burgundy color for the counter tops, maybe something granite ad then go with a nice lighter wood to bring out the earth tones for the cabinets? Keep the knobs white though.

kids clogs

What is this Super Nintendo called?

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I had a Super Nintendo game while I was living in Germany as a child and I thought it was the greatest game that I've ever played. but I don't remember what it is called and nobody here in the US seems to know what I'm talking about. It was an PRG, kind of like Zelda, but it focused on action a lot. The hero had a green sword throughout the game. He went to mny different world regions like China and South america. in the beging when weciding where to go the map could be zoomed into closer (which I though was really great on the SNES). Before the beginning title came up, the whole planet was pictured and the word "TIME" apeared. There are not too more game specific details that I can say or remember. Whoever can provide me with more information will receive 2 Yahoo! Answers points. Huh? How about it? Thank you very much.

What is this Super Nintendo called?
You really got me on this! The only thing I can think of is Chrono Trigger, Mega Man X3 and Act Raiser. Perhaps after more pondering I can think of other games. Hope this helps!
Reply:I finally figured it out. It was Illusion of Gaia. Man am I psyched! I'm gonna download me a rom and just play it constatntly. But thanks for your help anyway. Report It

Reply:i think this is the game

it sounds similar and the inro you talked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_M...

if not you might can sort throug this list of games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SNE...
Reply:It could be Xenosaga Episode 2 or Ys (perhaps Ark of Napishtim) too.

The hero in Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana does not have a green sword, but Zero (from Mega Man) definately did. While each of these games let you choose different continents to visit, none of them were named, or had the same name as they do in the real world (wasn't called "China").

That means that unless you remember those names being mentioned specifically, those aren't the correct games.

I'll be thinking about it.

What will be USA reaction?

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EU will reduce emissions of GHG 30% if other countries do as well, 20% if others dont

The president of the EU comission will meet US president next week, now, will USA join kyoto protocol and fullfil its target?

i dont critizice, it is just a question, i just want to know opinions.

but please, dont use that China and India dont reduce emissions, we all know that they cannt due to starvation and poverty, their target is green surface not GHG reduction.We all would like that USA would pollute "only" 9% (as China does) and not 25% as it does now, with 6 times more inhabitants.

What will be USA reaction?
I don't see this administration doing anything favorable about the environment. They're in denial.
Reply:Wait until 2009.
Reply:Ok. You are talking about a president that still cannot grasp the fact that after his party lost control of the legislature because of Americans wanting to get out of Iraq, that he goes and announces plans to increase troop levels over 20,000.

Do you think that he is going to see the light after scientists have proven that polar bears are threatened due to loss of habitat caused by global warming?

To answer your question.

NO!
Reply:GHG or globale warming is not a problem if we irrigate the world

http://www.dailymotion.com/jeandb/1
Reply:As long as you want to buy our goods,we'll prosper.When we prosper, we spend money.money is what causes polution
Reply:While I admire your dedication to what you obviously believe to be a worth while cause, I wonder if you have given the 'facts' any serious consideration?

I'm not American so your question wasn't really addressed to me, however my reply would be the same regardless of my nationality.

How many years has it been since the earths temperature has been monitored? a couple of hundred?

We do know that temperatures have been fluctuating for millions of years, long long before any 'ozone layer' was discovered, and as far as I know the Flintstones only had peddle power, and no aircraft (I've seen the movie)!

When the British govt' put extra taxes on our fuel to 'help out' with this drive to stop pollution , where does this cash all go?

If I need a car to get to work, should I give up work? If we all did that we would be joining India and China, I suppose we could replace the work lost by employing rickshaw drivers? That would serve a two fold purpose, cut down this 'ozone thingy' and keep people in work! Whats the rickshaw driers pay like? What would it cost from London to New York?

Sorry about this sad attempt to 'burst your bubble' but I really do not believe a word of this ozone thing, it's all a massive con, but there s money to be made out of it, I am willing to drastically change my viewpoint if the money is right!

Think about our great grand children's future etc etc.
Reply:USA will not ratify Kyoto.

And Europe will not succeed in reducing GHG by 20%. In fact I would be surprised if they even succeeded in preventing an increase.
Reply:Hello =)

At this time, with this President........

No, we will not join Kyoto......

I don't think that the Bush administration has put enough thought into the matter to even know if such a reduction is even feasible at this point in time, realistically.

The sad thing is, is that even Kyoto is not enough. Kyoto will get us there too slowly. We need a much more aggressive plan, but, as many have said, it's better than nothing. Unfortunately, what the US is doing is nothing. Our public opinion is starting to change, however, and Global Warming is now the #1 environmental concern of most Americans. This means that eventually, something will be done.

As Churchill once said:

America always does the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possible alternatives.

Namaste,

--Tom

Any countries willing to give citizenship to people who were wronged by their own country?

2010-05-21T22:15:00.000-07:00

I am very intelligent - 4 college degrees. However socially I am a misfit. :(

(Unbeknownst to me I married a criminal Mexican and found proof that she married me only for green card and to steal my money, I found the proof of this but American Law "Statute of Limitations" prevented me from using this evidence. I refused to give her everything when she divorced me and asked for more than half (and they agreed) so I left for China to live in a more FAIR country with my money. Now I somehow lost my passport. Now I am in big trouble. I am trying to become citizen of China).

Unfortunately I can't become a citizen of China without an American Passport. I can't go to Embassy to get another passport for fear of being arrested and sent to America. Are there countries (not Iraq, and other countries like that) that are sympathetic to people who are victimized by wrong laws in their country %26amp; give them citizenship? Unfortunately some laws in Usa make it easy for criminals and hurt us

Any countries willing to give citizenship to people who were wronged by their own country?
United Arab Emirates, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Germany, U.K. (but through Scottland).
Reply:Try the Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, if that fails you've always got Cuba :-)

By the way four degrees and a Mexican ***** outsmarts you, you should go and claim a refund from those colleges obviously you didn't benefit much did you ?
Reply:Why do I find your story a little hard to believe?
Reply:Argentina, is your safe haven, get there . Your story about the illegal mexican, I know it true. They use American citizens just like this daily. No telling how many times she has been married to more Americans, and never even got a divorce.

Good Luck
Reply:You have one BIG problem, with out a passport your not going anywhere unless you have your own boat.
Reply:Good luck. Sounds similar to here or anywhere. Not one country is that much different from the others on this.

Not a fan!!!! but what does Leonardo DiCaprio think of these poem ?

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INVITATION OF HOPE

The Angels of offspring

that brought warmth to my heart

outside the green circle,the circle of life

the inconvenient truth a tale to be told

the worriers of the green planet

who's watching endanger wow's

on these day unlock the door

from US to China a vision of hope

for india's Spiritual Soul and Japan

the dragon beholds Spain Carries the

Symbol of Canadas Pride and Respect

a Unity of foregin Countries endager species

is what we face

30 editions a tale of great minds

will triple the excistance of who ever

comes behind

23 world leaders building blocks of HOPE

the Green issue to remember

why we live close to kind souls

don't flush a good intention

and leave the past behind join the

proven inspiration (hybridlife.com)

an invitation to survival is written with love

so stamp your good intetntion and take a look

of what beholds of OUTSIDE edition the anniversary

untold .

Not a fan!!!! but what does Leonardo DiCaprio think of these poem ?
why dont u find and ask him yourself
Reply:Why don't you ask him? Only he would know.
Reply:poems should rhyme

such as

i like to fart

that is an art

this poem doesn't rhyme at all
Reply:He thinks that you shouldn't quit your day job.

sandals church

Would you like more?

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These are not jokes, but last time I posted, everyone seemed to like them so here are more........

1

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2

40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

7

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

12

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

13

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

14

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

15

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

17

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

24

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

26

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

27

Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

28

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

30

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

31

We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

32

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

33

Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

34

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

35

Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

36

When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

37

There are more chickens than people in the world.

38

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

39

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

40

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

41

The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

42

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

43

The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

44

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

45

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

46

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

47

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

48

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

49

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

50

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

52

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

53

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

54

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

55

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

56

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

58

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

59

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.

60

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

61

China has more English speakers than the United States.

62

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

63

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

64

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

65

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

66

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

67

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

68

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitana... - a New Zealand hill.

69

If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

70

Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

71

Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

72

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.

73

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

74

Coca-Cola was originally green.

75

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

76

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

77

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

78

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

79

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

80

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

81

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

82

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

83

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

84

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

85

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

86

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

87

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

88

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

89

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

90

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

91

Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey

92

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

93

A snail can sleep for three years.

94

All polar bears are left handed.

95

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

96

Butterflies taste with their feet.

97

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

98

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

99

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

100

Jake has a tremendous crush on a lady on here

Would you like more?
wow...those are interesting!!!! i like the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog...thats cute, i'm going to tell my kids about it. ...who do you have a crush on?????? you have to tell if you add it as a fact!!!!!
Reply:HI good one but very long Jake.
Reply:I love it. But #75 is disturbing.
Reply:Interesting!

#99 is truest about me!

With all that fur on my man's body - and he is left handed - I should have known he was a polar bear in man's clothing!!
Reply:wow that took a very long time to read lol... very interesting facts jake... especially 100 lol :)
Reply:Very nice. I liked this one. Not all of the continents end in the same letter they start with though. North America.. South America.. duh lol #72 grosses me out just a little bit. i'll def. rethink that one lol
Reply:so long but i read it!!! finally. two things:one, did marylone munroe really have six toes on one foot ? and two, the part where u say people will die of lack of sleep within 10 days is wrong i've stayed up a month once or twice (no bullshit) of course with some help from a lil somethin somethin that i'm not gonna tell ya coz i'll probaly end up in the cop shop and go to jail!!
Reply:Better reading than most books, Thanks Jake. Look out the Lady connected with 100.
Reply:Thanks for the list of facts. good things to know, and just who do you have this crush on. I am nosy LOL.
Reply:Very interesting! Number 81 is false though. I can lick my elbow.
Reply:This is cool dude
Reply:Some of these were very surprising! Especially the baby one which is #4! Thanks!
Reply:Very nice, but you can sneeze with your eyes open.

It's said to be very hard, the guys on MythBusters did it though!
Reply:you are definitely my favorite!!!! i absolutely love all of your entries and really appreciate learning fun facts such as these!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH

keep em coming!!!!!!!!

MICHELLE
Reply:Haha I ♥ it!!!!!!! Once on Valentines day my stupid dog ate a whole box of chocolates... he was fine though.. go figure, maybe it didn’t hurt him cuz he is a fatty!! =)

i love my dog!!! Thanks for all the wonderful readings everyday!! you know who I have a crush on?? Grant from Jurassic park!! ohh baby he is a hottie!!! ♥ no lie ever since i was little... =P
Reply:That's great! And I do fear spiders more than death! And about #100, She'd better watch it, I'm pretty sure she has a fair amount of compitetion!! LOL!!

-Mel
Reply:Good Information !!! . I think I knew about 3 of those. LOL.

Thanks my friend. xx Sugar bug
Reply:those are all very cool cept 76 isnt true and what does 100 have to do with anything??

but anyways those were pretty cool so STAR!!
Reply:I love reading these. my mum cracked her rib from sneezing.

Got any more of these to post? star.
Reply:I've seen a pig look up as well as a right handed polar bear.

Is there an easy way out of the “OIL” mess we've gotten ourselves into?

2010-05-21T22:14:00.001-07:00

Is there an easy way out of the “OIL” mess we've gotten ourselves into?

Oil is nearly $100 a barrel. Gas may soon reach $4 a gallon. And Americans are being bitten in almost every way imaginable by this insidious oil hydra.

Two billion people in China and India are now eager consumers. They want the cars, gadgets, and lifestyle that Westerners have claimed as a birthright for a half-century. Their growing energy appetites mean that the international petroleum market may remain tight, even if Americans — who use almost twice as much oil per day as China and India put together — cut back on imported energy.

The Middle East is raking in billions each week. At best, our so-called friends in cash-laden Saudi Arabia subsidize fundamentalist mosques and hate-filled madrassas worldwide. At worst, our enemies in petrol-rich Iran are after the bomb, send weapons into Iraq to kill Americans and fund Hezbollah jihadists.

War in Iraq, rumors of fighting in the near-future in Iran and tension on the West Bank only panic markets raise oil prices and further enrich our grinning enemies.

The nearly half-trillion dollars we will soon pay for imported oil does a lot more than prop up Russia's Vladimir Putin, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The petrodollar drain also contributes to our trade deficits, falling dollar and a general demoralization of the American people.

Our oil habit not only makes us dependent on some creepy suppliers, but we look like fools as we work nonstop to hand over our earnings to those who are rich by an accident of sitting atop oil someone else found and developed.

There is talk in this country of a gradual transition to alternative fuels, solar power, wind machines, plug-in electric cars, and nuclear power. Supposedly Americans will soon be less dependent on imported oil — while helping to slow global warming — as we are weaned off our fossil-fuel addiction.

But let's talk about the present: If oil continues to climb, ultimately, it will change our very way of life. Hard-pressed families will shell out thousands more a year in direct transportation and heating and cooling costs, and more still as consumer prices inflate.

It may have always been unwise for commuters to buy large SUVs and V8 super cab trucks. Now, though, we may reach the point where these pricey huge vehicles will sputter to a halt. Indebted Americans will still shell out monthly payments to pay off their parked dinosaurs, only to drive them for emergency or ceremonial occasions.

Also expect rising popular anger at an asleep-at-the-wheel government that for the last 20 years should have been doing a lot more to mandate conservation, subsidize alternate fuels, encourage nuclear power and open up oil fields offshore and in Alaska.

Instead, doctrinaire free-market purists and radical environmentalists, hand in glove, for years have thwarted both conservation and exploration.

True, in a perfect world, the market would teach Detroit not to build gas-hungry big cars. Yet in the here and now, we are needlessly burning scarce fuel as too many 7,000-pound mammoths deliver single 180-pound drivers to work — while the auto industry continues on its path to irrelevance.

Meanwhile, green politicians may not want messy oilrigs off their coasts, or tankers up north among the ice and polar bears. But so far very few of them have sworn off jet travel, nice cars or ample homes.

Oil companies claim that they are only passing along escalating costs from overseas suppliers over which they have no control. But around a third of our oil is pumped here at home.

Think about it: The cost to extract oil from existing older wells is relatively fixed. For much of the 1990s and early 2000s, oil prices had been steady at between $20 and $30 a barrel (when adjusted for inflation) — and domestic oil companies did quite well. So now at near $100 a barrel, these corporations are raking additional profits of over $60 a barrel — potentially a domestic windfall of hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

Is there an easy way out of the mess we've gotten ourselves into?

Maybe a Silicon Valley genius inventor or entrepreneur will step forward with a breakthrough new energy source.

Maybe our government will start a crash project on the scale of the Manhattan Project to conserve and produce more fuels.

Maybe China and India will consider radical conservation measures.

Maybe countries like Iraq, Libya, and Russia will start reinvesting in their oil infrastructures and double production.

Maybe the Middle East will finally settle down and soothe jittery oil speculators.

Those are too many maybes to wait for while our way of life hangs in the balance. It is past time to demand from our presidential candidates, as well as the current government, exactly when and how they plan to slay this many-headed oil monster.

Is there an easy way out of the “OIL” mess we've gotten ourselves into?
Yeah, I read the op ed by that Victor Davis Hansen guy in the SF chronicle this morning (on the train as I commuted to work b/c gas is so expensive these days).

My answer is: No, there is no easy way out. Unfortunately, our global,national and even local economies runs on oil. We need to find a way to change our current automobile fleet into one that runs on something we can produce here, be that bio fuel, hydrogen, etc. That is way easier said than done though. Most experts agree there is no magic bullet, that is, there will have to be a comprehensive set of fuels which replace oil. Developing an infrastructure which sustains that for the transition between oil to this new set of fuels will be very challenging.

To the guy that said bio diesel, that is part of the solution maybe, but to switch the entire automobile/trucking fleet to a bio diesel standard would require too much crop acreage unless the internal combustion engine were made more thermodynamically efficient or replaced with something new.
Reply:Yes, it's called oil rehab. Throw the country down, force it to come up with something and come out stronger than ever.

Sometimes you have to bottom out before something happens. That's how addictions are kicked.
Reply:nope, we're doomed
Reply:YES, PUT BUSH AND CHENEY IN AN IRAQI PRISON
Reply:No there is no fast and easy way out now. Ethanol might help but it will not replace gasoline, the same thing with hybrid cars they will help but there will always be a need for large vehicles and we could and should start drilling in the U.S.A. but even that will take time. What we should do is stop blaming the President for the problem and waiting for the next administration to fix the problem because that's a year away and I don't think any thing will change then. We need to come to-gather, decide what we want to do and put pressure on our government officials to make it happen.
Reply:There is no easy way sadly, the only thing that we can do is keep trying to fight our way out of the hole that we have dug ourselves into. First off we need to organize, get together with the people who really care about what’s going on today and don’t waste too much time on the people who don’t. The problem is that there are too many people trying to be heroes by taking on this oil crisis by themselves: Michael Moore, Al Gore for example. What’s the sense in making a documentary if the only thing that is done is that we sit back, watch it, say “That’s F-ed-up,” and still do nothing about it? It’s a fact of nature that there’s safety in numbers; the founding fathers of our country were a small group of men that had to struggle to and fight for what we have today, and they have made a great difference (Federalist Papers). Second we need to educate ourselves we’ll never be able to go anywhere if we don’t understand the situation and be able to argue intelligently. I now that there are allot of people out there who think that their “smart enough already” but if you carry this errant philosophy around to long you will never be able to truly understand the meaning of true intelligence.

We are on a path of self destruction right now and if we don’t do something fast there will be no future for us or our children. So I ask everyone who may care enough to read this to set aside their hubris and lackadaisical nature so that we may be able save or future, if not for yourself, then for our children.

Feel free to E-mail me, vg_champ@hotmail.com
Reply:Yes.

Very easy

http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelf...
Reply:I'm not even going to read all of that. The government should've forced car companies to reach standards a long time ago. If benchmarks were set decades ago, every car would probably get 50-100 miles/gal. by now. The last thing I want to see is a person driving a Ford F-350 complaining about gas prices. If you can afford the gas, then it's okay; but don't whine when the fact that your truck only gets 10 miles/gal. and gas is above $3. Why would someone with an office job need a work truck? When the U.S. expanded west, efficient public transportation systems weren't built. Most roads don't even have bike paths. I'm not riding a scooter because I'm afraid of the bad drivers in San Antonio and their huge vehicles. We can't just keep on depending on finding new oil deposits, we will always suck them dry and be left looking for more.
Reply:Drill in the US....
Reply:The US should be committed to a new venture like the Marshall Plan. We should be building a new nuclear power plant every month, and none have been permitted since the three mile island problem. (I know I won't win any friends with that answer) We should be more involved in bio-fuels also.

Instead we try to figure out how we can solve the oil problem. It can't be solved. The world is passed peak oil.. The emerging countries of China and India require more gasoline every day.

We need to change and do it now.

ed: It would take three years to get ANWR oil on line.
Reply:Well we could begin tapping some of the huge oil deposits left untouched on US soil,due to idiotic and unrealistic rules. Like in ANWR,or offshore. That would be a start.

YTP
Reply:Unfortunately, our Government IS the problem.

Our Government not only has vehicles that run on water alone but they also purchased the rights for a carburetor that provides over 200 miles per gallon.

Since alternatives are available and have been available for well over 30 years, one wonders why these methods aren't currently available to it's citizens.

The answer is fairly easy to come up with when you consider that all of our Presidents have had links to the oil industry in one way or another. To share the technology for an automobile that runs on water or to allow the purchase of a carburetor that will provide 200 + miles per gallon of gas would impact their finances.

Who says the President is dumb? Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter. Both will refuse to share their wealth with the American people.
Reply:The idea is to buy everyone elses oil until its gone, and then use all our oil last so no one else can have any.

Thinking of going to the Olympics in Beijing?

2010-05-21T22:14:00.000-07:00

Be very careful. I am in Shanghai at the moment and today I was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing while I had the green light. Two guys jumped out of the car and assaulted me. The Police caught the guys and then said that I should be more careful crossing the road and let the guys go. If you think you have right of way on a crossing (even one with lights) in China: think again. China could be a beautiful place but they really don't give a toss about anyone! Watch what you eat as well. There is a restaurant near my hotel with an open door to the kitchen, any morning you can see the cooks sitting on the floor with the days meat (on the floor) cutting it up for the customers. Hygeine is not a word commonly used in China.

Thinking of going to the Olympics in Beijing?
YES I AGREE ! It's time the world learned about the reality of life here. Hope you are ok.

Isn't it strange that the Chinese posters here ( you can tell which ones they are by their poor use of English ) will not accept ANY form of criticism?

So I have a few questions for them;-

If China is such a great country why do 70% of Chinese students, who go abroad to study, NEVER RETURN ?

How many foriegn people emmigrate permanantly to China?
Reply:She says that to make you feel better! Report It

Reply:If you hate China so much then why are you still living here?

If didn't force you to stay in China. If you dislike us that much then get yourself an airplane ticket and get out! Report It

Reply:Gee, I wonder how 1.3 billion people survived. Darwin anyone?
Reply:You are absolutely right about China and it's "wonderful" laws!! I have a friend who just got back from a tour of Shanghai and he was flabbergasted. He complained about the air pollution, bad traffic jam, spits everywhere, dishonest sales persons who tried to cheat foreigners, smelly toilets and child beggars.

This is what the foreigners will get to experience when they are there for the Olympics next year. How are you going to stop the Chinese from spitting? Hang a plastic bag on their neck? LOL.
Reply:Wow... May I say that I'm glad that you are safe and it is good to see you haven't been hurt phyically.

I do not walk much on road in Beijing, Guangzhou or Shanghai, I seldom cross the road because the traffic signals are confusing, even if I had to do so, most of the time I rush across with the crowd or my friends / local co-workmates and the signal is either red or green but no one cares and the traffic stopped or they slow down, at least, they don't "hit %26amp; run".

I'm in Beijing at this moment, I do not feel the same as you do. Please do not label me as Chinese who has never been to anywhere, I have been to more than 25 countries and more than 100 cities around Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. There are expats like you who live in China but hate China, there are also some of them who like China and want to stay here for the rest of their lives. Different people choose different ways of living.

Would you consider to terminate your work contact and go back to Australia if you hate China that much. I hope you would not be stressed out by all these "little" things daily.

Take care.
Reply:Tips taken! Although I am not going to Beijing next year for the Olympics, I will be coming over in less than a month. I have heard a lot of things about China. I already know the positive that's why I'm going there so now I am taking in all the negative for my safety's sake. Thank you!
Reply:I am not looking forward to Beijing Olympics for only one reason - air pollution. [And not because of your incident which is an isolated one if true.] The air is bad even for the average person let alone sports men/women who will not find the air beneficial for strenous physical activity. The Australian

contingent will leave for Beijing one day before the Games kick off - that's how bad the situation is and will be.

China is a fascinating and beautiful country; it's a shame that economic might once again supercedes ecological right.
Reply:For those foreigners..welcome to china..but if you hate it or can't accept some of the cultural differences then leave..we don't want you here...and to that guy who replied first...yeah..chinese people are pretty crap when it comes to english but then..come to think of it..you probably suck at chinese..

no one begged you guys to stay in china...leave and never retuen since you are so much superior

don't need any advices from people like you...boycott the olympics? go ahead but you ain't stopping me
Reply:Like they say back in the States: Love IT OR Leave IT! I happen to love it here. There is more love here than anywhere that I have ever been. The foreigners that ***** and moan were doing the same thing back home. It is really embarrassing when foreigners whine and think that their laws and ideas should be praised and practiced by all. The United States government (FDA) allows a certain percentage of rodent hair and insect parts in all processed foods that are made in the USA. When the corn contains too many worms we get products like creamed corn. When there are too many flies in the dairy cream we get chocolate chip ice cream.

Why Is Hillary blaming the Magnequench FUBAR on Bush?

2010-05-21T22:13:00.003-07:00

It was her husband that OK the sale of the highly sensitive missile application technology to the Chinese and now she has the nerve to blame the current president. She must have got her dates mixed up as to when the Chinese were given the green light to buy the defense contractor company and take it back to China.

Why Is Hillary blaming the Magnequench FUBAR on Bush?
for the same reason she:

claimed to be against NAFTA, but lobbied for it hard. Hillary tries to go with the flow in what she thinks people want to hear, and she thinks voters are too dumb to research and find the truth. She will say or do anything to win, to the point of having her supporters set up a press conference with Rev Wright. (the lady who set up the press conference with him for united press corp was a Hillary supporter, but she claimed it was unbiased)

I don't trust her brand of politics, sounds like the same crap that they all do in Washington, tell you whatever you want to hear so you will vote for them.
Reply:If you are a Liberal (as many of the YA people are) Bush is the enemy.He is the cause of global warming,NAFTA,job loses,foreclosure problems,stock market drop,gas prices,our colder winter,the cracks in the pavement in front of your house,Abraham Lincolns assassination and anything else bad that has happened in the last 150 years.Funny how the democratic Senate and House gets a pass for all of the crap going on.They have been in there since 2006,what have they done? Are the Liberals so stupid (I know the answer to this question) to think a president has that much power?Take a look at Pelosi etc..Besides point out all of the problems with the economy,what have they done to make it better? Oh yeah I forgot,now we have to buy Fluorescent lights,problem solved.
Reply:I know China 'acquired' the ability to (MIRV) place multiple

warheads able to hit different targets during Clinton 1.

Thanks Billary!

...CHG...
Reply:Because the Libs blame everything on Bush. If Krakatoa erupted again they would probably blame Bush for that too.
Reply:Bush has always been wrong in all he did, and Clinton at least ran the country well.

Big picture thinking, dude, big picture thinking...
Reply:Notice the pattern THEY WILL SAY ANYTHING.
Reply:Bush did this, right before he created Katrina
Reply:The rest of the world is, it's nothing new that Hillary is

gina

ONLY in this question, I will annoy you.?

2010-05-21T22:13:00.002-07:00

-Two plus four is 89.

-There are 7 inches in a foot.

-Abe Lincoln was once shot by Robert E. Lee.

-A square has 5 sides.

-Computer monitors do not cause gamma or beta radiation. They are, however known for alpha omega radiation when the moon is full.

-The capital of China is Tokyo.

-When you mix red and blue, you get the color green.

-George W. Bush was really born in Paris, Texas.

-SARS stands for SUVS Are Really Serviceable.

Now that you've read this, are you annoyed? And can you annoy me? (As long as it's harmless as a disclaimer)

ONLY in this question, I will annoy you.?
rain falls down when USA decided to water the rest of the planet.
Reply:well now i know you're so stupit
Reply:Not annoyed. What annoys me is when people expect me to know the names of all 30 states in the USA. grrrr....just cause I live here
Reply:Not at all.
Reply:Well i'm confused. That may turn into annoyance later on.
Reply:awwwww axi, you could never annoy me. the only thing i can think of that might be annoying to you, is to make that gawd awful chewbaca sound my son-in-law does when he wants to annoy me, and i don't know how to do it. maybe you can come over friday night and i'll have him do it for you okay.
Reply:hahha you make me laugh!
Reply:Nope, I'm not really annoyed. I thought some of it was kinda funny.

You want me to annoy you? Ummm....

*poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke**poke* *poke* *poke*

... are you annoyed yet?

Is this your dear sweet union supporting Hillary?

2010-05-21T22:13:00.001-07:00

In 1986, when Hillary was first lady of Arkansas, she was put on the board of Wal-Mart. Officials at the time said she wasn't filling a vacancy. In May 1992, as Hubby's presidential campaign heated up, she resigned from the board of Wal-Mart. Company officials said at the time that they weren't going to fill her vacancy.

So what the hell was she doing on the Wal-Mart board? According to press accounts at the time, she was a show horse at the company's annual meetings when founder Sam Walton bused in cheering throngs to celebrate his non-union empire, which is headquartered in Arkansas, one of the country's poorest states. According to published reports, she was placed in charge of the company's "green" program to protect the environment.

But nobody got greener than Sam Walton and his family. For several years in the '80s, he was judged the richest man in America by Forbes magazine; his fortune zoomed into the billions until he split it up among relatives. It's no surprise that Hillary is a strong supporter of free trade with China. Wal-Mart, despite its "Buy American" advertising campaign, is the single largest U.S. importer, and half of its imports come from China.

Was Hillary the voice of conscience on the board for American and foreign workers? Contemporary accounts make no mention of that. They do describe her as a "corporate litigator" in those days, and they mention, speaking of environmental matters, that she also served on the board of Lafarge, a company that, according to a press account, once burned hazardous fuels to run its cement plants.

Wal-Mart, though, was the crown jewel of Arkansas, the state's First Company fit for a first lady. During her tenure on the board, she presumably helped preside over the most remarkable growth of any company until Bill Gates came along. The number of Wal-Mart employees grew during the '80s from 21,600 to 279,000, while sales soared from $1.2 billion to $25.8 billion.

And the Clintons depended on Wal-Mart's largesse not only for Hillary's regular payments as a board member but for travel expenses on Wal-Mart planes and for heavy campaign contributions to Bill's campaigns there and nationally. According to reports in the early '90s, before Bill and Hillary moved to D.C., neither was raking in the big bucks, but prominent in their income were her holdings of between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of Wal-Mart stock.

A press report on the Clintons' finances during the early stages of Bill's 1992 run for the presidency showed that most of their income came from her $109,719 annual salary from the Rose Law Firm and tens of thousands of dollars in fees she received from serving on corporate boards. (She was on two others besides Wal-Mart's.) Her honoraria and director fees grew almost as fast as Wal-Mart's profits during the '80s—rising from $111 in 1980 to $6500 in 1986 to $64,700 in 1991, according to the same source.

During the same period, small towns all over America began complaining that Wal-Mart was squeezing out ma-and-pa stores and leaving little burgs throughout the Midwest and South with downtowns that featured little more than empty storefronts.

But selected small companies were doing quite well, thanks to the Clintons' friendship with Wal-Mart. The Boston Globe reported in January 1992 that Bill Clinton had introduced a brush company's executives to Wal-Mart executives, hoping that the two could do bidness. Executives of the brush company had been rebuffed in previous attempts to sell their products to Wal-Mart. Lucky for the company, it happened to be located in New Hampshire, where Clinton was trying to win a presidential primary. At the time, Hillary Clinton was still on Wal-Mart's board, and the retail giant was still resisting the unionization of any of its workers.

Last week, Hillary was wearing a different hat. She stood in solidarity with the elderly Teamsters as Local 237 president Carl Haynes greeted her warmly, endorsed her, and then left early on what other union officials described as "AFL-CIO business."

But the AFL-CIO was thinking of other business only a few months earlier when the union's leaders, including its chief, John Sweeney, marched specifically against Wal-Mart's oppression of its meat-market workers. According to a Web site run by activists at the AFL-CIO affiliate United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart "has profited by pushing its workers to the bottom of the wage scale." The union points out that hourly wages "average $2 to $3 per hour less than at unionized supermarkets." More grave for workers everywhere in the United States are these figures spouted by union activists: Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the country, "yet fewer than 40 percent of its workers are covered by the company's health plan."

The union notes that Wal-Mart's "hometown" judge in Arkansas issued a nationwide temporary restraining order against the UFCW, barring anyone associated with the union from entering Wal-Mart facilities to educate workers about their legal rights in the workplace. The union, however, successfully appealed the order—noting that the judge holds more than $500,000 in Wal-Mart stock. The case remains in litigation.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart's first lady, who also benefited from Wal-Mart stock, solicits support from union workers.

Which makes her words to the elderly Teamsters last week especially poignant: "You can count on me to stand up for the right to collectively bargain!"

Right on, sister!

Is this your dear sweet union supporting Hillary?
I'm certainly no fan of Organized Labor, but if I were them I would have to ask why in the Heck they are so slavishly supportive of the Democrat Party. It hasn't represented the "working man" for many long decades
Reply:I can't vote for a Wall-Mart Hoe, no wounder she never left Bill, That makes her a Nazi thanks for reminding me. There will be no universal health care with her in office. She is blowing smoke to keep wall-mart from paying a descent wage, I'll vote republican before I vote for that piece of spam, no wounder Bill was hoeing around
Reply:Wow! you really like to write boy!
Reply:Great post.
Reply:I think im the first answerer cos every1 else thinks this is too long - or they just don't care or both

Sorry but i dont know what you're on about

If you want an answer Its a conpiracy

What does the earth tells as?

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THE EARTH TELL BIG COUNTRY AND SMALL COUNTRY

THE ALL THE COUNTRY ARE VERY NICE EARTH LOOKS

LIKE MOTHER THERE ARE SO MUCH COUNTRY NAME OF COUNTRY CANADA,IRAN,IRAQ,NEPAL,INDIA,GREEN LAND,SUDAN,UNITED KINDOM,UNITED STATES,AUSTRALIA,JAPAN,RUSSIA,QATAR,JORD... AND BRAZIL

What does the earth tells as?
Earth is known as Mother Earth . The reason is we are hers :-)
Reply:"This is our Home'
Reply:Patience, Tolerance! Mother Earth! (I really like the idea you have expressed: I do understand, and appreciate! You are a worthy son of the Earth!)
Reply:abbey mohammed , are u also 1 of your many matric fail bhais??
Reply:love mother earth...dont ignore her...save her from pollution...global warming...global hatred ...
Reply:It is a very tidious task listing all the countries of the world and chances are, you will surely miss a handful countries in the process. The best way to describe what the Earth tells us is: it is our HOME.
Reply:Earth tells us "stop polluting me"
Reply:The different names for some pieces of land on earth, is artificial and man made. We are all the progenies of mother Earth.
Reply:HUH...WHY ARE YOU YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:yes india too friend and earth is mother of all
Reply:That was pretty crazy.
Reply:MOTHER

In India we call our country as BHARATH MATHA(MOTHER)

Are lesbians human?

2010-05-21T22:12:00.003-07:00

okay ummm it is prophecizizied that satan okay umm would create a race on earth to try to destroy the human race. This has been happening since ancient egypt. we have seen egypt, iran, sudan, ethiopia, roman empire, canada, russia, soviet union, cuba, china, Veitnam, etc... all linked to lesbians

WHAT DO YOU THINK NOW??

~ Timmy Green, prophet and messenger of God.

Are lesbians human?
2 points, thanks c*nt
Reply:of course lesbians are human!!
Reply:Timmy Green.

"Are lesbians human?"

The ones I've known were more or less human.

"okay ummm it is prophecizizied that satan okay umm would create a race on earth to try to destroy the human race. "

What's your source?

"This has been happening since ancient egypt. we have seen egypt, iran, sudan, ethiopia, roman empire, canada, russia, soviet union, cuba, china, Veitnam, etc... all linked to lesbians

WHAT DO YOU THINK NOW??"

If you watch the History Channel, they have linked every fukking thing to Hitler. So they have you beat.
Reply:what a crap logic! you are rather stupid arent you?
Reply:What a stupid question. Yes I'm human and you wish you were a messenger of God. It's more like you are the messenger of idiots.
Reply:REPENT CHRISTIAN -- you follow not the words of your God and Savior. You are intolerant and judgemental. You profane His name. God is coming to judge you as you have judged others.
Reply:Um, everyone keeps saying that all this stuff is linked to lesbians .. i don't see how that works... plus i LOVE my darling lesbo friends, so leave them alone!!! Oh, and yes they're human. just like you and me ... okay well ... yeah.

~!*Jorge`*!~
Reply:i think they r human ... are you?
Reply:How in the hell is it related to lesbians? Most war is a result of religion, land, money, or to much testosterone!
Reply:Have you started on the Lithium yet? I don't think the Prozac is working...
Reply:You are only 11 yrs old? Shouldn't you be out side playing?Better yet, where are your parents while you are on here asking these outrageous questions?
Reply:No, we're SUPER-HEROINES!!! WORSHIP US!!
Reply:can I have some of the drugs that you're on??
Reply:Yes.
Reply:you are nuts and reported again.
Reply:No we're evil robots sent from space to kill and maim ignorant freaks like you. Please tell me your kidding.
Reply:exterminate exterminate exterminate exterminate exterminate exterminate. oh sorry you said my name??
Reply:Are you human?
Reply:what do you have against lesbians? most guys like lesbians, which only makes me think that you are using religon to cover up your own blatent homosexuality. do us all a favour and come out of the closet already.

wesley

List of cool stuff/things?

2010-05-21T22:12:00.002-07:00

heres a list of some cool things. lemme know if you have anything else to add.

Trees

Dolphins

Books

The Beatles

Dirt roads

Peanut butter

Glow sticks

Hot Guys

Blue skies

Carnival rides

Dogs

TV

Music

Your mom

Beaches

Quarters

Ducks

Strawberries

China

Perfume (the good kind)

Lotion

Smooth skin

Sunsets

Sunrises

Yellow brick roads

Green

Couds

Flowers

Flavored toothpaste

Blogs (the good ones)

Songs

lyrics

magic

borders(the book store)

nail polish

converse/airwalks

pretty colors minus purple

hippos

guitar

ukulele

singing

dancing

parrots

slides

swings

laughing

the moon

grass (the non itchy kind)

hugs

kisses

number lock

laptops

cameras

swearing

foreign counties

candles

posters

Paris and Nicole

rainbows

Running

Stuff that tastes like chicken

Yelling loud

Making friends

revenge

karma

itunes

ipods

cell phones

shoes

boxer shorts

talking

Hold hands

Kiss in the rain

Typing

Skipping

Jumping over poles

Sitting on the road

Flashing cars

reading

Huging trees

Making people smile

Talking

Watching the sun rise

Watching the clouds roll bye

When time stops for that one moment

sunbathing

booma’s house

jewelry

hot Hawaiians

blonde Britt’s

Wednesdays

Lucy

Babies (just cuz they’re cute not cuz were molesters)

Alaska

New York

Africa

Europe

Eurotrip the movie

Blonde moments

Childhood memories

Kleenex

Kissing boo boos to make them feel better

Being sexy

Skinny dipping

“pants”

Italian new Yorkers

Vanilla

Sleeping in till 3 pm

Parties

Disneyland

Big eyes

Black asses

Juicy apples

Pie

The world

Peace

Mr. Wagner

Friends

Bendy straws

That loud Silence you hear every once in a while

Snow

Wind

Williamsberg

Flying

Magazines

people

my silly *****

my fishing buddy

my kinky *****

eva del sol elgato

ponies

luckycharms

stamps

letters

katie couric

harry potter

the queen of England

prince Williams

dirt

emeralds

sapphires

making wishes at 11:11

living the rockstar life

lollipops

thinking

the smell of new partchment

pizza

spegetti

Italian food

The mafia

The color yellow

The eighties

Big hair

Dane cook

Pumkin from flovor of love

Goldie from flavor of love

Spice girls

Pirates

Hawaii

America

The internet

Happy endings

Best friends

Hearts

Stars

Horseshoes

Clovers

Blue moons

Pot of gold

Red ballons

This one boy

Things that are sexy

Poppies

Magic

The number 69

Flashlight

Orange juice

Lava lamps

Rainy days

List of cool stuff/things?
petrified wood, steve mcqueen movies and Mom's homemade pie..........you just said "pie" which is absurd
Reply:mud slides

kissy fish faces

raspberry vanilla body wash

circles

sporks

eatery

clothes

NEBRASKA!

and gooseberries... =]
Reply:That's a lot of things! Here's some more to add to your list

Yahoo.com

My Chemical Romance

love

comdey movies

tofu with bbq sauce (yum)

Polls %26amp; Surveys

mix cds

rock music

freedom

butterflies

monkies

England

fire

luck

puppies

new shoes

sunglasses

comets

peace

stars

Texas

jumping

fingerless gloves

mexican food (enchilladas rock)

Hollywood Undead

coffee

holidays

daisies

skateboarding

fireworks

swimming

roses

@-%26gt;--%26gt;-
Reply:me!!!!!
Reply:You forgot my cat and dildos.
Reply:I think you got eveything, did you put love?
Reply:You forgot bats, and I totally agree on pizza.
Reply:Good Lord! I didn't see the kitchen sink in there.
Reply:Wow. Those are a lot. I dont you I have anything esle left to add

Question about Travel Abroad?

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I stayed in China for half year. Now I come back. I want to go to China again within one month for doing business over there. Can I go there? I have green card. Please tell me answer with a prove (i.e. info. from a legal immigration affair website). Thank you!

Question about Travel Abroad?
As a green card holder, you cannot be gone from the U.S. more than one year without having to get a re-entry permit. If you are gone 6 months then return for a month, then leave again, that is not a problem. See site below and read paragraph titled "Internationa Travel."

When will the incompetent Communist Australian Labour Party Voters admit how Strong the Howard Government are?

2010-05-21T22:12:00.000-07:00

Following the APEC success and Howards ability to gain universal agreement on a reduction of Green house %26amp; CO2 emissions, along with securing $45Billion natural gas deals with China %26amp; a Billion Uranium deal with Russia, why cant the labour losers admit how strong our Government is ?

When will the incompetent Communist Australian Labour Party Voters admit how Strong the Howard Government are?
When Pigs fly BACKWARDS and Hell freezes over and when you start living outside your fantasy world,
Reply:Howard cant take credit for those natural gas deals the West Australian labour Premier can why do you think the Chinese President came to WA first.

Also you do realize when we sell uranium we have take back the nuclear waste and dispose of it shall we put it in your backyard if its so safe.

I also would like to know where Howard is getting the uranium from because it wont be WA we have a moratorium on mining it.

Makes the Northern Territory deal over the Aboriginals very suspect because he must want their uranium that is probably why the army if the truth be told.
Reply:What universal agreement? It was an "in theory" agreement. It was "aww gee whiz we really should do something soon." It was "let's talk about this again sometime soon." What ACTION PLAN came out of it?

Uranium.... Ohhh Myyyy Gawwwd! What a fantastic idea. Well GWB thought so anyway. So that makes it fine then.

Johnny: "Mr. Putin, will you only use this uranium for good and noble purposes?"

Putin: "yes"

Johnny: "Fabulous! How much do you want?"

What sort of checks and balances are in place? Why are they not for the public record?

Johnny's green thumb is nothing to be proud of... I reckon it's a brown one anyway... he's had it stuck somewhere dark and smelly!
Reply:Pig Iron Johnny.

Cheers :-)

What type of gun fires a 39mm round of ammunition and what happens if the round impacts a human body???

2010-05-21T22:11:00.002-07:00

Thanks for the info because I was given a light colored,older wooden case of them(alot) and want to know what theye are all about.They are made in China and states to use only suitable launchers on the back of the small green boxes.The bullets are encased in styrofoam,inside these small green boxs and are copper colored.Thanks again for your answer...Tom Science 4

What type of gun fires a 39mm round of ammunition and what happens if the round impacts a human body???
7.62 X 39MM RUSSIAN RED

Isn't that Tracer ammunition?
Reply:well i think thats a mark IX rifle...then about wat impact it has when fired on a human body, u can as well fire it facing u then say wat impact it had......well, thats if u'll be alive to write back on yahoo answers, LOL.

happy holidays
Reply:Sounds like ammuniton for a rifle grenade launcher. The M203 grenade cartidge looks just like a "bullet" and the caliber is 40MM. So I would say you having something similar.
Reply:Your question doesn't add up. A 39 mm shell is extremely large and is usually not shoulder fired weapon ammunition, with the exception of underbarrel granade launchers (which are usually 40mm.) AK-47 ammo (7.62 Soviet) is 39mm long overall. You make it sound as though the diameter of the projectile is 39mm meaning the "bullet" is as big across as 2 1/2 fingers are wide. This would most likely mean that this ammunition is explosive, and the fact that they are styrofoam encased and state "use only suitable 'launcher' " reinforces this notion. (Although the PRC's Chinese to English translation has never been known for great accuracy)

However you say they are "large copper bullets"

In which case are they 5.45 Soviet %26lt;M74%26gt; (AK-74) or 7.62 Soviet %26lt;M67%26gt; (AK-47)? Assualt rifle rounds are not what I would call a "large" bullet, more like an intermediate round, but like you said you know little about guns.

Merely because they are assualt rifle rounds does NOT rule out the possibility that they are incendiary or explosive, although they would have colored bands or tips.

No matter what these rounds are their effect on the human body will be to wound or kill, although a round fired out of barrel (not confined) does not transfer much energy because its energy is not directed and concentrated in a specific direction by a chamber and barrel. If these are explosive rounds however this is a moot point.

I do not believe that these are artillery or mortar rounds as these would not resemble a "large bullet" but a grenade round may be a possibility. However I have never heard of (or found in a search) any listing of a 39mm diameter round, Chinese, Soviet or any other country for that matter. It would have a round metallic (if not painted) head and a casing.

The only thing for sure about this ammunition is that it is not safe in your possession as you cannot identify or describe it. As much as I hate to say it, I would suggest turning it over to the authorities, or at least someone with more firearms knowledge.
Reply:you sound sick....why would you want a gun so big anyhow?...

another school shooter in the making?...

get rid of stuff like that and concentrate on making youself a better person...instead of ridiculous weapons..
Reply:i guess i can see your first part of the question, but the second part? does this really have to be answer?

maybe if you think really hard, considering the speed the bullet travels and the mass that develops in his path, i guess the question is answerd without a response. thank you

and probably just the a drop of the ammo onto your foot probably hurts like a MOFO
Reply:Let's get the measurements straight first...

The M-16 fires 5.56mm bullets

the AK-47 fires 7.62mm bullets

The Chain gun fires 12.7mm cannon shells

The gun fitted in a F-16 fires 20mm cannon shells

The gun fitted in a MiG 29/Su30 fires 30mm cannon shells

I have heard of 37 mm guns fitted on small vessels of the Navy and Coastguard

Therefore a 39mm round has to be fired out of an field mortar or an Anti Tank weapon or even a light field gun/howitzer.

Any of these weapons firing a shell on a you will disintegrate your body into so many pieces that they will have to find you with a broom and pail to fill the body bag. And, of course, the explosive content of the shell will play wonders with any solid object...

Is the round without a casing (Shell attached to it? then it is definitely a mortar or a anti tank round. Both have stabilizing fins at the rear end and additionally the mortar shell has 3-4 circular leak-prevention washers ahead of the fins to help propel the momma out of the mortar barrel.

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1) Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2) 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3) 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4) On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5) Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6) Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

7) Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8) Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10) Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

12) The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

13) By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

14) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

15) Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

17) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18) Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19) Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20) The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21) To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22) The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23) The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

24) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

26) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

27) "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

28) It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29) In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

30) A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

31) We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

32) Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

33) Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

34) Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

35) Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

36) When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

37) There are more chickens than people in the world.

38) The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

39) There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

40) The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

41) The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

42) The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

43) The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

44) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

45) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

46) Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

47) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

48) A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

49) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

50) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51) When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

52) Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

53) A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

54) "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

55) Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

56) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57) "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

58) Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

59) The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.

60) If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

61) China has more English speakers than the United States.

62) Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

63) Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

64) An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

65) Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

66) Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

67) According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

68) The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitana... - a New Zealand hill.

69) If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

70) Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

71) Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

72) More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.

73) Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

74) Coca-Cola was originally green.

75) The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

76) The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

77) There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

78) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

79) Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

80) You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

81) It is impossible to lick your elbow.

82) People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

83) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

84) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

85) If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

86) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

87) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

88) If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

89) If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

90) If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

91) Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey

92) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

93) A snail can sleep for three years.

94) All polar bears are left handed.

95) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

96) Butterflies taste with their feet.

97) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

98) In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

99) On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

100) Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

101) Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

102) The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

103) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

104) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

105) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

106) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

107) Most lipstick contains fish scales.

108) And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

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For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).

If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.

Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make changea for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Starfish have no brain.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

Bulls are color blind.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Lip stick contains fish scales.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

The first 100 numbers of Pi are:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...

58209749445923078164062862089986280348...

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A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Emus can't walk backwards.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

12 or more cows is called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

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!

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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".

Singapore only has one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Popeye was 5'6".

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.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born every 7 seconds.

10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.

American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.

The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.

The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".

The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.

When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.

The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.

The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.

Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.

28 percent of Africa is wilderness.

38 percent of America is wilderness.

A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.

It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.

70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.

Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

Did you know?
Proof that this was copy and paste job:

"Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi! "

That line of his post doesnt have a link attached to it.

So no, he didnt take any time to type all this out, just about a few seconds. LOL!
Reply:Who doesn't? Tell me something I didn't know.
Reply:i wish i had this much time to mess about. good post though. nothin like useless information to brighten the day
Reply:you have way too much time... iwould suggest a hobby such as recreational butter smoothies chef or something.

DRINK BUTTER SMOOTHIES!
Reply:did you know you're something else?

did you know that my neighbor is courting me and i don't like it?

bwaahaha
Reply:I knew those stuff before I was born.. LoL
Reply:great amount of information. Thanks for the same. Most interesting was that u spent so much time for all of us. thanks a lot.
Reply:I love to annoy people by telling them facts and I was running out Thanks
Reply:thank you i read that all.
Reply:AAAHHHHH !! too much information !

thanks for the headache, dude
Reply:I read every one of them! Some I knew, some were revealing. I love this type of trivia. Have a good day.
Reply:It doesn't take any brains to Copy Paste this stuff from a webpage!
Reply:That was pretty cool, lot of stuff I didnt know. Thanks for the time you spent typing all that.
Reply:YOU HAVE WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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A number of pending winners listed here may be qualified to receive a check in the amount specified by verifying their PIN # on the following F.A.S.T. form, in conjunction with submitting the winning entry in accordance with FreeLotto rules, terms and conditions. The convenient F.A.S.T. service guarantees that a winning check in the amount of $1 Million will be released to its rightful winner upon said submission in conjunction with the rules.

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Bridget Green Las Vegas NV $100,000.00 PAID

Wenyi Wang Heping District China $10,000.00 PAID

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Eric Prevost Calvados France $10,000,000.00 PAID

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It's a safe bet that if anything sounds too good to be true, it is not true.
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Reply:it is a pure and genuine fake. i receive a number of them. just trash them. if u want to find the actual sender, then click on show full header. u will find the sender ip. copy it and open a ip tracer and paste the ip. most probably u will find that the originating ip is from somewher in western africa.

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7084EZ Office of the Prize Administration

PIN VALIDATION REQUEST %26amp;

PRIZE PAYMENT DIRECTIVE -(E)- 2006

(Rev. September 06)

A number of pending winners listed here may be qualified to receive a check in the amount specified by verifying their PIN # on the following F.A.S.T. form, in conjunction with submitting the winning entry in accordance with FreeLotto rules, terms and conditions. The convenient F.A.S.T. service guarantees that a winning check in the amount of $1 Million will be released to its rightful winner upon said submission in conjunction with the rules.

FIRSTNAME LASTNAME CITY STATE OR

COUNTRY AMOUNT STATUS 84968470

Compare PIN # above -

if both match,

proceed to next step.

PIN STAMP APPROVAL

Raymond Simpson Temple Hills MD $10,000,000.00 PAID

Dennis S. Oak Harbor OH $100,000.00 PENDING

Clifford Dunaway Mechanicsville VA $50,000.00 PAID

JAYANT KUMAR bahuguna noida na $1,000,000.00 PENDING

Bridget Green Las Vegas NV $100,000.00 PAID

Wenyi Wang Heping District China $10,000.00 PAID

Elaine D. Statesville NC $300.00 PENDING

Thomas Hulsmann Parma OH $300.00 PAID

JAYANT KUMAR bahuguna noida na $300.00 PENDING

Eric Prevost Calvados France $10,000,000.00 PAID

Bill Herriott Glasgow United Kingdom $1,000,000.00 PAID

Jessica Baker Meridian ID $10,000.00 PAID

JAYANT KUMAR bahuguna noida na $10,000.00 PENDING

Here is the URL for PIN #84968470 Verification: (Click to claim - Form7082A)

http://www.freelotto.com/offer.asp?offer...

cc: JAYANT KUMAR bahuguna

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I have gotten them.And I search your name that I found on them %26lt;which they sent to me%26gt;It said you have gotten money from them already.So,don't send any card number or details.I think,they just want your imformation.

==I agree with comment1%26amp;2==
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Textiles

Some more for kids are they funny?

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What is "out of bounds" ?

An exhausted kangaroo !

What is the most slippery country in the world ?

Greece !

What might you eat in Paris ?

The trifle tower !

If two's company and three a crowd, what are four and five ?

Nine !

Who was the best actor in the bible ?

Samson, he brought the house down !

What kind of fish can't swim ?

Dead ones !

What do golfers use in China ?

China tees !

What is the strongest bird ?

A crane !

What happens when you throw a green stone in the red sea ?

It gets wet !

What do Scotsmen eat ?

Tart'n'pie !

Some more for kids are they funny?
sorry, ducky, they aren't just funny, they are also very clever..

well done and thank you for sharing
Reply:Yeah, i think they are really funny as they are so simple and to the point. Some jokes go on and on and you have fallen asleep before the punch line - not these!
Reply:LOL! I have to tell some of them to my friends!
Reply:Cool! Thumbs up!
Reply:Like it . Nice mixture.
Reply:nice i liked the

What kind of fish can't swim ?

Dead ones !

that was easilly the best

good job
Reply:Very Funnie!!

What are four %26amp; five! lol

:)
Reply:haha so fuuunny
Reply:yes funny and kids will enjoy them.........i also like them because i am a kid....LOL
Reply:Cute and funny! 8/10!
Reply:thumbs up..
Reply:very cute, my sister would love this

*****

Fun facts...?

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For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).

If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.

Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make changea for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Starfish have no brain.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

Bulls are color blind.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Lip stick contains fish scales.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

The first 100 numbers of Pi are:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...

58209749445923078164062862089986280348...

Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!

A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Emus can't walk backwards.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

12 or more cows is called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

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!

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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".

Singapore only has one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Popeye was 5'6".

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.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born every 7 seconds.

10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.

American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.

The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.

The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".

The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.

When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.

The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.

The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.

Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.

28 percent of Africa is wilderness.

38 percent of America is wilderness.

A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.

It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.

70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.

Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

Fun facts...?
I loved it and believe it or not, I read every word. What is the book that contains no e's?
Reply:WOW!!!!! that's a lot anyways they're interesting and i read every one of them
Reply:I didn't read half of that.
Reply:Thanx for the facts
Reply:dang that is a lot of facts i didn't know. thanks for sharing!!!!!!
Reply:wow i never knew half that stuff, thats CRAZY...thanks for the info = )
Reply:I'm sorry could you repeat yourself.....?
Reply:Wow, they're pretty interesting (:

I read up to the American eating eggs bit, my eyes got too sleepy xD

Thanks though x
Reply:Some of those are pretty funny!
Reply:how long did u work on that

Did you know?

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For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).

If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.

Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make changea for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Starfish have no brain.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

Bulls are color blind.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Lip stick contains fish scales.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

The first 100 numbers of Pi are:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...

58209749445923078164062862089986280348...

Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!

A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Emus can't walk backwards.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

12 or more cows is called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

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!

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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".

Singapore only has one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Popeye was 5'6".

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.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born every 7 seconds.

10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.

American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.

The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.

The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".

The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.

When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.

The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.

The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.

Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.

28 percent of Africa is wilderness.

38 percent of America is wilderness.

A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.

It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.

70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.

Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

Did you know?
WoW I didn't know that the,The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Thanks for the intresting facts!
Reply:interesting... a pigs orgasm lasts 30 min...

all of it is kind of interesting...

I only knew about 25% off that stuff.

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Reply:Ok, totallly just wasted like 30 mins. reading this question. Interesting stuff though.

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Useless Facts

For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).

If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.

Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Starfish have no brain.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

Bulls are color blind.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Lip stick contains fish scales.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

The first 100 numbers of Pi are:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...

58209749445923078164062862089986280348...

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A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Emus can't walk backwards.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

12 or more cows is called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

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!

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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".

Singapore only has one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Popeye was 5'6".

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.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born every 7 seconds.

10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.

American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.

The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.

The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".

The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.

When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.

The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.

The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.

Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.

28 percent of Africa is wilderness.

38 percent of America is wilderness.

A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.

It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.

70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.

Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Want to know 336 useless facts?
Not really.... : )

"Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999." ... seriously did it take you more than 8 years to type that all out??? lol

And what do you mean no piece of paper can be folded seven times????

I typed this entire sentance with just my left hand: trixtadextaphobia.

This entire one was typed by just my right hand: stewardesses.

Sir Thomas Crapper was a royal plumber but he did not invent the toilet.

That a goldfish's attention-span/memory is only three seconds is actually urban myth.

What about "I'm."?

My dogs' parents were all less than 8 years old.

Some men are blind, some women deaf.

Etc. etc. etc....

However, if you listed about 400 things I do believe that 336 of them might honestly be worthless fact.
Reply:hey one thing you forgot to mention was....

3 of the things are listed twice each.

so technically you didnt even write as many useless facts as you thought ... but i was still saved from boredom for about 5 minutes. Report It

Reply:HOW IN THE WORD DID YOU GET THIS ALL TO FIT ON ONE THING without putting: "additional details?!?!?!?!" Report It

Reply:i meant world Report It

Reply:I LIKE TURTLES!!!! Report It

Reply:Despite urban legend, Crapper did not invent the flush toilet. Few other urban legends in there too Report It

Reply:awesome man,thanks for posting! Report It

Reply:The TV show Mythbusters proved you can fold paper more than 7 times.The paper must be VERY thin and big. They reference a girl who did it as a school project. She folded 1/4 mile of toilet paper ~13 times. Mythbusters did a HUGE sheet of paper and got either 13 or 28 times. Report It

Reply:Mythbusters also proved goldfish can be trained to go through a maze to find food. So the 3-second memory is also false. Report It

Reply:'m headin over russia ^^ :PP Report It

Reply:wow i actually read all those but not all are correct.

i can type stwerdesses with both of my hand Report It

Reply:Also, "Go" is the shortest sentence in the English language, because the subject is implied as "you" and the verb is "Go"

Not "I am" Report It

Reply:he means that any piece of paper can't be folded in HALF 7 times. believe me i trided alot of times Report It

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Reply:Did you know that the word count for all of that was 3,985 wordss, Report It

Reply:carrots turn u yellow not orange if u gorge on carrots and tomatoes then ur orange also i red them all post more Report It

Reply:Actually, women do not blink twice as much as men. I have tested this, and men blink more than women. Report It

Reply:stfu ! xD Report It

Reply:I saw that mythbusters where they folded the paper. It was in fact more than 7 times. But the paper they used was extremely large. Interesting facts, it gave me something to do though some are false. Report It

Reply:...And to really think someone would sit there and read all of that.
Reply:What is so interesting is that I knew at least half of these already.
Reply:very interesting, u make it hard to get two points-haha

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The Kyoto Protocol was first written in 1997, why do AGW believers blame Bush for not signing it?

2010-05-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

I keep seeing answers from Anthropogenic Global warming believers that sound like they blame President Bush for not signing it. If my memories still serves me correctly wasn't Bill Clinton the President and Al Gore the Vice President in 1997?

True President Bush was reluctant to go along with the idea that Global Warming was being caused or effected by human activities, but in the end he agreed with them and talks became more productive.

I know most everyone hates George W Bush, but who among you would want the job?

And is so hard to understand that it would be hard to accept any policies where countries like China and India, who are starting to over take the US in Green House Gas emissions, are exempt. (These emissions also include other major air pollutants too.)

The Kyoto Protocol was first written in 1997, why do AGW believers blame Bush for not signing it?
Those that hate President Bush fall into two categories, those in the United States that want more control over people's everyday lives (all of us use energy outside and inside our private homes), and those in foreign countries envious of the United States.

The Kyoto Protocol was specifically designed to harm only the United States, or to harm the United States far more than any other nation on Earth.

During the 1990's Europe and Japan were in economic recessions, while the US economy was booming (and energy use that goes with all economic activity). Europe could far more easily obtain the goals set than the US - without the US launching itself into a recession soley to meet the treaty.

In Germany, its average energy output shot down during the reunification and the collapse of the USSR put their energy use down. This is why the output levels of 1990 are used, and are still used. The Treaty will never be signed by Europe or Russia if any year after 1990 is used as a basis to reduce emissions. During the reunification of Germany, the East German factories that were inefficient and wasting money were shut down. The same thing occurred in Russia. And those shutdowns counted as emission reductions so much that Russia still makes a billion dollars every year in carbon credits. They are now able to build factories that are like their western counterparts now.

The hate George Bush because George Bush will not sign a treaty that will launch the US into a recession, if not a depression.

I find it funny as someone answered earlier that China will reduce their emissions if the US signs the Treaty. Every year, China needs to find work for 25 million new workers. For the last 50 years, the US has been in a state of democracy, and protects human rights, but China hasn't followed the example of one Western country in any regard to human rights or democracy. China knows that it is the cause of 50% of the pollution that exists in California as their pollution is carried by winds across the ocean, and the cause of 80% of the acid rain and acidic waterways and lakes in the Western US and Canada. They have done nothing to avert that. To say China will deprave themselves of economic growth simply because the US decides to stop its growth is nothing more than a fantasy.
Reply:And you criticize my choices for best answer? :-/ Report It

Reply:Whatever the delusional AGW enthusiasts don't blame on global warming is reserved for President Bush.

Kinda sad and pathetic, right?....

BTW, the senate rejected Kyoto 95-0 long before Bush came into office.
Reply:It is a political movement. There was a 95 to 0 vote against ratifying by the US senate in 1997. It doesn't apply to the largest emitter of Green house gases, China, that is building coal plants like they are going out of style. How STUPID would he have to be to sign that.
Reply:I just read what S. Fred Singer said about Kyoto:

"Clinton/Gore never submitted the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for ratification. (They were well aware that the Senate’s Byrd-Hagel resolution against any Kyoto-like protocol had just passed unanimously in July 1997.)"

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv...

Regarding Bush:

"The current President, George W. Bush, has indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for ratification, not because he does not support the Kyoto principles, but because of the exemption granted to China (the world's second largest emitter of carbon dioxide[69]). Bush also opposes the treaty because of the strain he believes the treaty would put on the economy; he emphasizes the uncertainties which he believes are present in the climate change issue. Furthermore, the U.S. is concerned with broader exemptions of the treaty. For example, the U.S. does not support the split between Annex I countries and others. Bush said of the treaty:

'This is a challenge that requires a 100% effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is the People's Republic of China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. India and Germany are among the top emitters. Yet, India was also exempt from Kyoto … America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change … Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.'"[70]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Proto...

Bush Backs Away from Carbon Dioxide Pledge

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Pa...

"(CNSNews.com) - President Bush is backing away from a campaign pledge to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The decision, sure to please Republican conservatives and the coal industry, has angered environmentalists, who never liked Bush to begin with.

In a letter to Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) on Tuesday, President Bush said he takes global warming 'very seriously' but that mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions would lead to higher electricity prices by forcing more utilities to shift to natural gas from cheaper coal.

Bush reportedly is abandoning his campaign pledge under pressure from Republican conservatives. Some of those conservatives said it looked like Bush, by supporting carbon dioxide reductions, was backing the controversial U.N. Kyoto climate treaty, which requires industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels.

Although the United States signed the treaty in November 1998, the Senate has not ratified it."
Reply:Clinton (and Gore) failed us on Kyoto for those 2-3 years.

However, to be fair, there was significantly more doubt about AGW 10 years ago than there is now. It's not a great excuse, but it's important to consider.

Bush has had a further 7 years to sign the Protocol, during which time the evidence has solidified further. In the meantime, he's also censored global warming science on more than one occasion.

China and India being exempt is no more than an excuse to cop-out of Kyoto. They're developing countries, and not responsible for nearly as much of the CO2 in the atmosphere as developed countries like the USA. They'll follow suit if we reduce our emissions, but we shouldn't expect them to lead the way. We should be taking a leadership role to clean up our own mess.
Reply:Clinton DID sign Kyoto, Bush pulled the US out of that treaty.
Reply:Clinton didn't sign it because he saw how bad it was for any country that cared about the well being of its citizens.

Actually, it's such a terrible treaty that all of the countries that have signed on to it can't abide by the rules and so they just don't.

What good is a rule that no one can abide by and everyone breaks?

Besides, it wasn't going to have much impact on the amount of CO2 emitted anyway. Since 99% of the greenhouse gases are water vapor, it's stupid blaming CO2 for anything other than keeping plants alive.
Reply:No-one is close to over taking the USA in terms of emissions

I think people "blame" Bush, although thats not quite the right word, since by the time he came around there was a lot more evidence than in 1997 and he just stood there and said " it doesn't exist" , which was utter madness.
Reply:Every democrat in the senate at the time was against the protocol.

However things change when the political landscape changed in 2001. Since it was clear that Bush wouldn't give the bill to the senate, those who were against it were now for it.

Remember global warming has nothing to do with the climate. It's all political. We could reduce co2 emissions overnight if the political will was there.

Instead the democrats passed an energy bill that gave massive subsidies to the oil and coal industries but forced people to buy mercury filled light bulbs to make it appear they were doing something.

Sad isn't it?
Reply:Since the first Kyoto Protocol a lot of progresses have been made in climate science. The certainty of human involvement and the severity of the possible consequences if not taking enough actions has evolved. Almost every country in the world now understands the importance of cooperating in this issue and this includes China and India. As things evolve and the emissions of greenhouse gases continues to rise it's true that we need to put more pressure on developing nations to, but everyone needs to understand that in China and India there is still a high percentage of people who doesn't even have electricity in their homes. Yes, their emissions is rising, but they have huge populations who still lives in poverty.

The talk about that cutting greenhouse gases would hurt the American economy badly is in my opinion probably mostly just excuses to protect oil interests, and a way to convince people that the current policy is the best for its citizens. Since 1990 Sweden has managed to cut our emissions with almost 9% and still maintain a good economic growth. The task to successfully continue this mission would be much easier if all countries followed the same rules. For countries to see the biggest emitter in the world ignore powerful actions is having a very negative impact on other nations willingness to act.

You're right, I wouldn't want the President's job, but George W Bush did and I think as a leader for maybe the most powerful nation in the world he has a huge responsibility for how the future of this planet will look.
Reply:Having the number 2 and 3 polluters exempt is an indication that the Kyoto Protocol was just another attempt to fool everyone into believing we were serious about tackling pollution. Number 1(the US) was not exempt, of course, but how about number 4-10? Why do they have to suffer while two of the top three get a pass? Does the fact that India and China are 'developing countries'(all forward-moving countries can be said to be developing) somehow diminish or remove the harmful effects of their pollution? Do we really need to have some foolish, halfway treaty to reduce our emissions on our own? If we are serious, and if all the coastal cities are doomed to be deluged, why are we exempting a large chunk of the pollution? Why not make everyone subject to the same rules?

On the subject of the US having to lead the way; with China and India fighting so hard to get their exemptions, I seriously doubt they would follow any lead. Nope, they will continue to happily pollute the atmosphere as long as they can get away with it. If a treaty nerfs other economies and gives them competitive advantages, so much the better. So long as they don't have to play ball.

Who would like to try the quiz below?

2010-05-21T22:08:00.003-07:00

Q1. What "animal" holds up the White House piano?

Buffalo

Bear

Lion

Eagle

Q2. Which White House room served as Thomas Jefferson's office? Today the room is a place to entertain.

East Room

Blue Room

State Dining Room

Green Room

Q3. What did President Theodore Roosevelt use to decorate the walls of the State Dining Room in 1902?

Candlesticks

Lamps

Moose head

Painting of Benjamin Franklin

Q4. What color was the Red Room when First Lady Dolley Madison lived in the White House?

Green

Red

Blue

Yellow

Q5. Which room was the site of President Grover Cleveland's wedding ceremony?

Green Room

Red Room

Blue Room

East Room

Q6. Where did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt hold her first press conference with women reporters in 1933?

Green Room

Red Room

Blue Room

East Room

Q7. What did First Lady Abigail Fillmore do to make a lasting contribution to the White House?

Started a White House library

Purchase unbreakable china

Planted a rose garden

Held cooking classes

Q8. Where did President James Madison sign a declaration for the War of 1812?

Green Room

Red Room

Blue Room

East Room

Q9. What is the shape of the Blue Room and the Diplomatic Reception Room?

Oval

Square

Rectangular

Triangular

Q10. Who were the first occupants of the White House?

George and Martha Washington

James and Dolley Madison

John and Abigail Adams

George and Barbara Bush

Who would like to try the quiz below?
1. Eagle

2. East Room

3. Moose head

4. Yellow

5. Blue Room

6. Red Room

7. Started a White House Library

8. Green Room

9. Oval

10. John and Abigail Adams

Did you know that Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991!!!

Touche
Reply:My answers are:

Q.1. = Eagle

Q.2. = State Dining Room

Q.3 = Moosehead

Q.4. = Yellow Room

Q.5. = Blue Room

Q.6. = Red Room

Q.7. = Started a White House library

Q.8. = Green Room

Q.9. = Oval

Q.10 = John and Abigail Adams
Reply:1. Eagle

2. East Room

3. Moose Head

4. Yellow

5. Blue

6. East

7. Started White House library

8. Green

9. Oval

10. John %26amp; Abigal Adams
Reply:So, you're doing the Bingodrome Puzzle of the Week.

http://bingofiles.com/news/bingodrome/17...

A1. Eagles "hold up" the White House Steinway piano. The legs of the piano are carved eagles.

A2. East Room Jefferson turned the south end of the unfinished East Room into an office

A3. Under the watchful eyes of moose heads and other stuffed hunting trophies hanging on the walls, President Roosevelt and his Cabinet celebrated the 1902 White House restoration and the construction of the West Wing at a dinner held in the State Dining Room.

A4. Dolley's parlor, the Red Room, Dolley decorated this parlor in "sunflower yellow".

A5. The ceremony was performed in the Blue Room of the White House, June 2, 1886.

A6. In 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt hosted the first of many press conferences for women reporters in the Red Room.

A7. Mrs. Fillmore was the first career school teacher to be First Lady, and upon entering the White House she discovered that no books - not even a Bible or dictionary - could be found

She petitioned congress for funds to buy books, and personally supervised their purchase

Mrs. Fillmore converted the second floor study to house the collection, thus creating the first White House Library

A8. President James Madison signed the nation's first declaration of war in the Green Room.

A9. The beautiful, oval-shaped Diplomatic Reception Room made a nice first impression of the White House.

A10. President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, were the first occupants of the White House.

Glad I could help.

rene

Japanese Grape Drink??

2010-05-21T22:08:00.002-07:00

i used to drink this grape drink made from japan or china possibly that was in a small can and had chunks of green grapes in them. Does anybody know what I am referring to or the name of this drink?

Japanese Grape Drink??
Dairy group, Meiji Dairies Corp, is to launch a new grape-flavoured, low calorie yogurt drink called _Aqua Bulgaria White Grape _
Reply:It's a Korean drink called BonBon, from Haitai Corporation.

Who agrees with the Tory idea of taxing faster cars and trying to force everyone into little pootly 1.2 litre?

2010-05-21T22:08:00.001-07:00

...toy' cars? This is just a way of appeasing the tree-hugging greenies and making more money out of petrolheads.

There are MANY more cars in the USA and China etc and even if ALL of Britain's cars were destroyed tomorrow, it would not be more than a gnat's pee in the ocean if trying to reduce CO2 emissions. The power stations in China alone produce more CO2 in one day than Britain's cars do in a year.

I was going to vote Tory, not any more. Any party who tries to force me to be greener would only push me into trying to make my carbon footprint as large as possible in retaliation.

Fewer fast cars would perhaps keep the world going for a few more days but it would mean years of boredom and no fun.

I'll keep my fast cars, sod the greens and the (green) Tories.

Who agrees with the Tory idea of taxing faster cars and trying to force everyone into little pootly 1.2 litre?
Agree 100%!

All this 'greenwash' is really starting to annoy me. We (the UK) are a tiny little insignificant speck on the planet, and as has been said before, if we shut down this country tomorrow, China alone would make up the environmental difference in a matter of weeks!

Nobody wants to suffer climactic catastrophe, but I for one would feel a damn sight more positive towards it if I didn't feel my pocket being picked every time someone mentions anything 'green'

The motorist is always going to be a target because we're A) Traceable through DVLA, and B) have some money .

I currently run a 2.0 litre saloon, because it's as big as I need, but my next car will either be a big Jag, S-class Merc, or a 4x4, all with a V8 engine %26amp; sub-20mpg. Just because I can!

If petrol is so evil, we owe it to future generations to use it all up, yes?
Reply:This idiot questioner had my answer deleted. Road-hogging fascist. I hope he gets hit by a tree. Report It

Reply:do yourself a favour spend one evening of your life on the internet looking at the arguements for and against the thoery of global warming. it will take about 1/2 an hour to find out that that "all the scientist agree" claim is total tosh.. after about an hour you will find that even scientists who believe that co2 emmisions cause global warming are critical of some of the wilder claims ..... guys to look up philip stott and nigel calder both respected climate scientists or patrick moore former founder of greenpeace .. you like me will soon become convinced that all this co2 causes global warming is b*ll*cks.. over 99% of greenhouse gases are entirely natural mostly from the oceans. if we all went back to living in mud huts and tepees it would make sod all difference
Reply:in my personal opinion i think if poeple can justify why they drive the car they do they should be let off a bit on the tax. IE plenty of farmers etc require a 4x4 or pickup for day to day work on their farms (they woulod look a little silly in a prius!) and thuis should be taxed far less than women who own 'chelsea tractors' who live in central london and drive one just for the sake of a 20mins drive each morning to cover the 0.6miles to school!!

similarly i think if people choose to buy racer type cars or those with large engines then they shoudl be taxed ehavier as they have made that decision themselves and very few have solidly justifiable reasons for buying them other than pride and self indulgence (i know first hand as mu hubby drives a 2.8l golf and would easily be able to substiture with a smaller runaround)!!!

most of the poeple under 25 who buy the prepped up little racer cars only do so to impress their mates and are the most dangerous on the road as they feel a necessity to drive at 90mph everywhere. I think that it shoudl be the insurance that should rise which would initially put the people off of buying the vehicles in the first place rather than those of us who either have smaller cars and make do or genuinely need a reason to drive a bigger and more powerful car being taxed just for the government to get money out of us.

most people can manage with a car under 2l and of a reasonbale size (at the end of the day most cars are 5seater which fits perfectly with a 2.4 children family) and i dont see the point oif people getting big space wagons or 4x4's as a 'family' car when a small peugeout 206 or similar will suffice.

Mind you anyone seems to want to tax anything these days and i am sure one of these days a bicycle tax will be brought in as well to repay all the cycle lanes that have been created over the years!!

P.S dont they make enough out of speeding/ parking tickets these days to maintain the car tax rates ???!!!

:)
Reply:I'd like to tax you to the hilt for your total inconsideration for the environment. People driving 1.2 or smaller cars should get a tax rebate - the extra tax that people like you pay.

That said, I still would not vote Tory because they're a bunch of asre-heads who will never give up their own luxuries, except perhaps that blonde chap who's quite amusing.
Reply:Well people like you will eventually kill this planet. Thanks for sharing your strange view with us.
Reply:good idea , it will stop all the little boy racer's running around killing people
Reply:Thanks private erin, I live in the countryside, only occassional public transport and disabled. Take my car off me and I`m housebound. Get me a bottle of milk next time you are at the shops.
Reply:I'd ban all the cars in the world tomorrow. Even if there was no climate change, I'd ban them. They're smelly, ugly and they've destroyed the social fabric and countryside. They're the worst invention ever and famously a penis-substitute. I wish we could send you to another planet to mess that up.

I just want you to know that I take as long as I can to cross the road, and taunt the motorists while I do it.

Did you know?

2010-05-21T22:08:00.000-07:00

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When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.

The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.

The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.

Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.

28 percent of Africa is wilderness.

38 percent of America is wilderness.

A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.

It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.

70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.

Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

Did you know?
My eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, it's ok......I learned a lot from this! You really deserve a star for this hardwork!!!!
Reply:St. Louis Rams have won a superbowl, and they play their home games in a domed stadium. Report It

Reply:its too long to read but i am answering this to keep a record of this with me.

and thanks for this collection!!!
Reply:The sneezing with your eyes open thing was proven to be a myth by Myth Busters so you might want to change that little piece of information.
Reply:AWESOME!! i did not know most of these =D
Reply:that's long haha anyways i didn' know those haha tnx
Reply:Great !!!!!!! Thats it ....
Reply:don't know bout all that

but i do know somethings can go way overboard.....hahaha

by the way a cockroach can live for ten days after u cut its head.yeah.i'm not telling u more....
Reply:"No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. "

Actually the Colts won two years ago and they play in the RCA Dome.
Reply:Yes, I knew all that. Maybe next time you can come up with something I don't know - but I doubt it.
Reply:wooooooooow! that was AWESOME!! sadly, i only had time to read one third of it, but what i did read was AWESOME!!! just one thing, though- "The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper," is a myth. annoying, isnt it?? i thought it was too, but apparently (well, according to what ive heard and read) he didnt invent the toilet. but he was a real person!! (sucks for him). but i could be wrong...i usually am. ;)

o, also, mospuitos dont hav tooth. having teeth requires bones and an endoskeleton, which mospuitos dont hav. they hav proboscuis thingys. everything else was AWESOME!!!!!
Reply:Woahhh.
Reply:Im not gonna read all that

u read it
Reply:I read it all and i love it.
Reply:too lengthy.. but awesome
Reply:i read a couple but then i saw how big it was who would know all that stuff anyway i mean really, but u shuold try out for jepardy
Reply:hmmm.......and did you know that the estimated percentage of people looking at this thread that are actually going to read it is approximately 2%
Reply:wow!
Reply:wow ... interesting

it was actually cool reading all of that it was entertaining
Reply:That, my friend, is a very long list...OF IMPORTANT VERY USEFUL FACTS!!!!!!! ;0)
Reply:Thank you so much for the knowledge. I will have to save this for tommorow so that I can read it. Starred.
Reply:AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!1
Reply:WOW!!
Reply:the BEST you hear me?THE BEST!!!!!
Reply:that was dumb

How many facts do you know!!?

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For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.

By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.

The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).

If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.

Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Starfish have no brain.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

Bulls are color blind.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Lip stick contains fish scales.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

The first 100 numbers of Pi are:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...

58209749445923078164062862089986280348...

Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi!

A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Emus can't walk backwards.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

12 or more cows is called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

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!

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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".

Singapore only has one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Popeye was 5'6".

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.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born every 7 seconds.

10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... His middle name is George James.

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.

American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.

The doorbell was invented in 1831.

The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.

The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.

Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.

The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.

The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn".

The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.

The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.

When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.

In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.

The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

4000 people are injured by teapots each year.

The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.

The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.

Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year.

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita.

Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work.

28 percent of Africa is wilderness.

38 percent of America is wilderness.

A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.

It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000.

70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World.

Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable."

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca Cola was originally green.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words.

The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.

A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day.

Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The world's youngest parents were 8 %26amp; 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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."

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

How many facts do you know!!?
Facts are simple and facts are straight

Facts are lazy and facts are late

Facts all come with points of view

Facts dont do what I want them to

Facts just twist the truth around

Facts are living turned inside out

Facts are getting the best of them

Facts are nothing on the face of things

Facts dont stain the furniture

Facts go out and slam the door

Facts are written all over your face

Facts continue to change their shape
Reply:and you put all those facts up there why?
Reply:cool i liked it

idk if every one of them i a fact thou
Reply:thanks for posting this...i needing something to pass the time and this did it!! i even laughed a little. i even tested my brother on some stuff. thanks for helping out the bored!!

aloha!

edit...haha, this fact was listed twice "Coca Cola was originally green."...the only difference is one has a hyphen and the other doesnt.
Reply:had a few old guy had advantange . very very well done confused by puck speed seems a tad to high would guess around 105 . 1 in 4 americans t.v statying when . no offence please brilliant question please no offence intended very well done congrats to you
Reply:Nothing like filling your head with useless knowledge, eh?
Reply:I think it would be beneficial for you to do a fact check, because some of your statements are in error.
Reply:WOW :o
Reply:Nice to have a new computer...huh?
Reply:did you know the human body contains 10 pints of blood??

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Why do so many Chinese dislike Japanese?

2010-05-21T22:07:00.001-07:00

Whenever I am in China, many many people tell me they hate the Japanese. They say all these bad things about Japanese.

Then I come to Japan and see that almost none of these comments are true.

The Chinese claim they hate the Japanese because of what happened in World War II. However, I am of the opinion that this is not the real reason. Most of the people who were around in World War II are now dead, I don't see how this is relevant to hating modern day Japanese. By analogy, most Jewish people do not hate modern day Germans.

I personally think that the hatred has a lot to do with the green eyed monster - yes jealousy. Japan is a world leader in so many fields.

China on the other hand is a neverending source of cheap labour for the world. And yes I realise that China's economy is growing very quickly, but this just means they are becoming richer, it does not mean they are rich. They are still a way poorer country than Japan.

What do others think the source of this hatred is?

Why do so many Chinese dislike Japanese?
I think that hatred of Japan/Japanese by the Chinese exists as you say due to the Chinese government's use of it as a political tool.

The Chinese' inferiority complex is tied to the hatred of Japan. The Chinese used to consider themselves to be the most cultured and advanced civilization in every way, going as far to name their country the Middle Kingdom. However the European powers along with the US and Japan came in and carved China up which humiliated the Chinese. Adding salt to the wound was the fact that Japan - who the Chinese used to consider as inferior people- was one of the victorious nations.

After WW2, China entered a period of chaos (Cultural Revolution, Great Leap Forward), while Japan steadily rebuilt their economy and nation. The end result was that China lagged far behind Japan in many industries- a further wound to Chinese pride.

In order to divert attention from their issues at home (income gap, AIDS, and many more) and in an attempt to assuage their pride, the Chinese leadership encourages the hatred of Japanese. Whenever needed the leadership can always use Japan as a diversion from it's own internal deficiencies and at the same time increase unity by whipping up nationalism, as seen in the anti-Japanese protests of 2005. Instead of solving their own pressing social/political issues they shout anti-Japanese slogans and scream for the immediate reunification of Taiwan.

Thus the Chinese education system continues anti-Japanese education. This combined with the government's encouragment of anti-Japanese protests results in that the average Chinese is heavily biased towards the Japanese people. It should be noted that the Japanese are not alone in this either- both Tibet and Taiwan are issues that have also been manipulated by the Chinese government to increase nationalism.

PS: To Jeff L: Taiwanese are not Chinese. Most Taiwanese like Japan due to the fact that the Japanese helped develop the island and were much better rulers than the KMT. However many of the Chinese in Taiwan- those that crossed over with the KMT- still harbor resentment towards Japan over WW2. However they only make up a small protion of the population today.
Reply:It's began in 1936. It's before the world war 2... Japanese was controlled by aggressive military... They invaded some city in China... One of them is Nanking... Maybe you ever heard about "Nanking rape"? It's when Japanese troop kills and rape thousand of Nanking citizen... In Nanking city also stationing the most elite Japanese troop... Japanese stationed in Nanking until the end of WW 2.
Reply:I really have wondered why china and japan hate eachother. I always hear when they are offended by eachother but i never know why.

I think people from other countrys do not know why they hate eachother.

I think they should say there story clear. Just so other people know.
Reply:Economic jealousy may be part of the equation, but the memory of what the Japanese did to the Chinese people in the 1930's and 1940's is still remembered.

There have been no repentance or reparations made for the atrocities done to the Chinese people. In fact, the Japanese have arrogantly tried to cover it up and rewrite history in their school textbooks.

Another source of discontent is the Japanese close ties to the USA, especially militarily. The Chinese have difficulty understanding why the US would protect Japan, especially after how aggressive Japan was in WW2.

And there is a philosophical/political divide, with the Japanese capitalism in conflict with Chinese communism, even though threads of capitalism have woven their way into the Chinese fabric in the past few decades.
Reply:I think it is because of their education.

And Japan have continued to fight their uncertain description with material evidences. They know they can't beat Japanese historians. Because they don't have enough evidences. That make them more irritated.

Here are some pictures of Chinese school text books. All the pictures were taken by a Japanese woman who lives in China now. She collected these from local graduated students.

http://img02.ohmynews.co.jp/news/3/3659/...

China is teaching Japanese amy's bad behavior with picures and illustrations (this is high school history text book).

http://img02.ohmynews.co.jp/news/3/3660/...

(This is something like that Iraq people depict American troops' bad behavior only in their book. I think young generation will hate America and Americans....)

This part is regarding Nanjing.

http://img02.ohmynews.co.jp/news/3/3660/...

"court statistic, Japanese army occupied Nanjing and killed more than 300,000 Chinese civilian and servicemen who don't hold weapons within 6 weeks."

But the fact is this. Japanese army issued advance notice to attack Nanjing city a head of time. And the civilian ran into the Nanking Safety Zone which John Rabe established. The population of the zone was 200,000. Chinese leader, Chiang Kai-shek ordered his military to battle with Japanese army but he got run away from the city sneakily.

Chinese soldiers became disorganized, changed their uniform to the civilian's cloth (便衣), and hide behind the civilian.

Japan couldn't tell who was the Chinese soldiers (this is like the Iraq city today), and ordered to bring the men out, exclude female and children, of the safety zone. (This was confirmed with letter missive.).

If Japan army killed 50% of the population (mens) of the zone, 100,000 can be possible number. But China don't show any evidence or logic why/how Japanese army could kill more than 300,000 people.

(Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal stated as 200,000).

Similar thing can be found on the article regarding Tibet. This is Jr. High school text book.

http://www.ohmynews.co.jp/img02/news/17/...

The paragraph says:

"Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. These 2 persons are the supreme leaders of Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism). In 1774, British people (colonialists) made an attempt on holding commercial pact solely with Tibet subnational government. But 6th Panchen Lama (he is aka Lobsang Palden Yeshe) refused it strongly and issued rigid statement that 'Tibet is Chinese territory(the land of China)' ".

Do you think this is true? I could trace only that there was a feud between Dalai Lama and 6th Panchen Lama and Panchen Lama was on the Qing dynasty side. I believe the world assume that the Dalai Lama was the head of the Tibetan government between the 17th century and 1959, and Panchen Lama was the 2nd highest ranking lamas.

Funny thing is these Chinese history books are also re-published in Japan today. If you can read both Chinese and Japanese, please check this.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN...

Don't you think Japan is open for world history and there are options for readers? (There are over 20 school text book publishers in Japan.)

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one more thing for who don't know about Japanese apology and reparations.

Mao Zedong invited Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to HIS house and talked and accepted the apology statement from Japan.

The date is Sep 27-28 1972.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/_...

From that moment, Japan started to pay lots of money to China as the form of ODA (Official development assistance). The amount paid to China is over US$40 billion until today (of them, 20 billion is pure donation). And this agreement with China end this year (2008).
Reply:俺たちのちんちんのほうがでかいからにきまってるだろ ;)

Im jk.
Reply:Yes, it is a combination of a number of things, some of which you listed. I also think that part of it is the differences between the two societies, China being communist and Japan a type of democracy.
Reply:I guess you mean Chinese from China, right!? Because of the war!!!

Taiwanese are Chinese too, if you go to Taiwan or meet Taiwanese you may have different feeling.

I think Taiwanese like Japanese much more than people from China.

It's a long story........

I suggest you read history about China and Taiwan.
Reply:a lot of chinese work in Japan. Some in lower paying jobs...That could cause frustration as well. I do not have all the answers, but I have heard prejustice statements from both Chinese and Japanese.

China is changing by the day...we will have to see how their new Super Economy will change the times.
Reply:Actually yes it is because of historical reasons.

However many Chinese i see in Japan like visiting around and think the people are nice.

Many older generations might not still be around, but there are still many around.

Japanese policy such as textbooks description of what happened during world war II have angered both China and Korea, which lead to many protests a few years ago. Sometimes the Japanese try to downplay what happened during World War II so that causes sources of anger sometimes.

A lot of the time as well it is overhype by Communist controlled media in China too. Remember China doesn't have as much freedom as they do in Japan which is a democratic country.

I suggest you read and watch this video:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/...

With that said, many Chinese like to visit Japan, and think the people are nice, there are many Chinese students that study in Japan as well. Many Chinese would like to go to Japan because pay is simply higher in Japan, then in many of the corrupt communist factories in Mainland China.

For the same reason many mainland Chinese want to jump out to Hong Kong.
Reply:Even though most the people that fought in the war are dead, that doesn't matter. It effected A LOT of lives. If the parents hate the Japanese, what's stopping that parent from teaching their child to hate Japan? The child grows up with that hate. It's not the child's fault, they were just brought up that way.

China hates Japan, and Japanese hate the Chinese. It's a vicious circle, but it's true none the less. People hold grudges and they do pass those grudges onto their offspring.

As for the war, it had a big influence... I have respect for both countries, but in WWII Japan tricked Chinese civilians, telling them to come out of their homes that the Japanese would give them shelter and give them food to feed their children. They dropped tons of these paper flyers showing a Japanese solider being friendly to a Chinese child.

But in reality it was a trick and the Japanese slaughtered them, tortured and raped their women.

The Japanese see China as being selfish. But that's probably in part because Japan would like a piece of their land, but why wouldn't they? Japan is extremely over crowded and needs to expand its boundaries.

Maybe one day they'll realize they could realllly benefit from one another.
Reply:"most Jewish people do not hate modern day Germans."

yeah, then why not you look back what the modern german gov do to say sorry to the modern jewish?

and see what the modern japanese gov have done to say sorry to the chinese and korean?
Reply:It's simple,because of the education.You know despotic states allways need enemies to control peole.For PRC It's Japan that's all.
Reply:I agree with you!

Japan have ethics, China could care less!

I, myself now really check,"MADE IN ........?'

If it is China, i will not buy!

Lead in Children's toys!

Dead Pets!

Fraud Toothpaste! etc

They do not care! They kill and eat their own pet rats!

Why should they care about "you?"

They would eat your dog %26amp; cat too!

They appall me! No doubt!

Ohhhdear! What Japan did to China?

What did U.S.A. do?

They are totally different!

Japan is not trying to poison you everyday!

They didn't ABORT Daughters to have sons!

Now there is not enough females to go around!

What Next FLU, will they bring to North America, SARS, was not enough?

You would think they would be on their toes after that!

Guess what? They DON"T CARE!

Let nothing "Made in China", anywhere near your babies!

It's Super Fun Trivia Time! How many answers can you get right???

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Here are the questions. I would like an answer for ALL of them, even if you have no idea. Any answers that do not answer ALL of the questions will be discluded. Here are the questions:

1. What is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet waves?

2. How many are in a baker's dozen?

3. What is David Bowie's real name, and why did he change it?

4. What was John Lennon's original middle name, and what did he later change it to?

5. What were the dates that "Little Lotta" and "Richie Rich" comic books were issued?

6. What is Mandark's (of the Dexter's LAb T.V. show) REAL name?

7. How many Simpsons shows have been made so far, and what year did it start?

8. Of the band, The Monkees, Mike Nesmith is the tall guy with the green hat. WHY does he wear a green hat?

9. Where have Chinese gooseberries originated? (Hint: It's NOT China)

10. Professor Utonium named Bubbles and Blossom before he named Buttercup. Why did he name Buttercup "Buttercup"?

It's Super Fun Trivia Time! How many answers can you get right???
I'll have a bash, but I bet I'm wrong at most

1.Uh, bats?

2. 13

3 David Jones, but I don't know why he changed it

4. Winston, but he changed it to Ono? Or something

5.Richie rich was 1994 or something

6. Susan!! In know that one fer sure

7. 320? and it started in 1987 on fox

8. It's his trade mark.

9.Kiwi fruit! From NZ

10. He couldn't think of any other names that started with B
Reply:Sherry K got the most right, but you can tell she cheated by looking at number 6. CHEATERS ARE LOSERS!! Report It

Reply:1. is some kind of fish i bet, a goldfish :S or carp, no goldfish lol,

2. 13

3. Robert Jones, i love bowie :) lol,

4. first was winston, im not sure but id guess ono after his wife

5. 1950s., 53

6. never heard of mandarks, :S im gonna double bluff and say dextar :S

7. 389 id say till now! and it was started in 1987

8. because he likes green :s argh! this are hard :(

9. asia probally

10. something to do with sugar and spice :S argh! i dunno, because of the b thing, :s, i only realised the oither day that bubble have the say voice as tommy pickles lol,

does professor utonium , have a first name ? :s

u better give answers to these questions,lol, i wanna know what i got wrong , have a star though quite enjoyed that :)
Reply:1. bat

2. 13

3. David Robert Jones; there was already a Davy Jones in the Monkees and it caused confusion

4.Winston; he added Ono - John Winston Ono Lennon

5. Richie Rich and Little Lotta was introduced in Sept. 1953 in Little Dot

6. Eddie Deezen - the voice of Mandark

7. Over 404 episodes; 12/17/89

8. To keep his hair out of his eyes

9. New Zealand

10. Because it began with a "b"
Reply:1. Bees

2. a baker's dozen should have 13

3. david Jones (yup, the same guy from the Monkees)

9. New Zealand (we know them as Kiwis)
Reply:a bakers dozen is 13

david bowies real name is david jones. he changed it because that was the name of one of the monkees.
Reply:1. A lizard

2. 13

3. Smith

4. Michael

5. 1955

6. Manny

7. over a 1000 %26amp; 2000

8. He's Irish. DUH

9. Korea

10. She was his Buttercup. I remember that show. PowderPuff Girls. I used to love that show.
Reply:Ok - I promise I won't look any up - so there will be a few gaps!!

1. I think it's a fish but not sure what kind

2. 13

3. David Jones - changed possibly because of the Monkee called Davey Jones (guessing)

4. Winston (after Winston Churchill) - no idea he changed it what he changed it to

5. Never heard of them!

6. Don't know

7. I'm a Simpsons fan but....number of episodes must be at least 200-300. Started in (guessing again) 1990

8. No idea

9. Well, I know it's a kiwi fruit - so possibly New Zealand

10. Never heard of Prof. Utonium!
Reply:1. A goldfish. My science teacher told me that!

2. I think 13

3.I don't know. This is a trick question and it IS his real name??? :S

4. Winston, haha, but i didn't know he changed it? (probably sick of everyone making fun of it :P)

5.Uh, like 1970?

6. SUSAN!!!!!

7. Uh, like 250? 251 plus the movie?

8. I don't know. Because his mommy didn't want his head to be cold...

9. I INVENTED CHINESE GOOSEBERRIES! Therefore they originated in my laboratory.

10. Because it began with a B

These are fun! You should make more! *Stars question*