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not so bored at work
saz:
well, it's only Tuesday, and my email inbox is already full!!!. Luckily, full of fun emails and not work related, so I thought I would share one of the cleaner ones with you about some weird facts..................
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up
in the morning.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called
aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the
head on a Pez dispenser.
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.
No standard 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special
desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt.
In Clarendon, Texas, there is reportedly a law on the books that lawyers must accept eggs, chickens, or other produce, as well as money, as payment of legal fees.
Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling
diesel engine.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the
correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing
arsenic."
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald
Reagan.
All porcupines float in water.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
When opossums are playing "possum," they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
see...arent you all much wiser now???
saz
Chas:
--- Quote ---Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
--- End quote ---
Was that three and three, or a total of twelve?
;)
Spatech_tuo:
--- Quote ---Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
--- End quote ---
I hope this doesn't mean we'll see a chain of stores that sell apples with whip cream on them for $4 each and are on every other block. Applebucks anyone?
--- Quote ---No standard 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
--- End quote ---
I will refuse the urge to try this at the risk of looking like a dork.
Let me know how this worked for you Brewman!
--- Quote ---Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
--- End quote ---
That should have made her more stable and better able to stay on her feet!?
--- Quote ---The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
--- End quote ---
hmmm, its seems to me that dough and Scarborough have the "ough" sharing the same pronunciation. Have I been pronouncing them wrong all these years?
--- Quote ---All porcupines float in water.
--- End quote ---
That would be due to the air in their quills. I've experiemented with this many times.
--- Quote ---Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
--- End quote ---
Brewman, please post your test results for this experiment!
Nhbeacon:
The only one that made me go ummm was the non-dairy creamer. I have just got to try that! Maybe I'll get the HS chem teacher to light it for me, to cut down the thrill level.
jan
Brewman:
Why do you think I'd do any of this stuff?
Ok, I did, a long time ago, try the paper folding trick and it's true. You can only fold it in half so many times. ;D
As for the non dairy creamer, If don't have this around the house, but if I did, I'd try ignite it. Wonder if it's the liquid or the powder stuff that's supposed to ignite?
Brewman
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