Interesting Facts Vol. II...
And you still probably don't give a flip.
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Well, not a whole lot of feedback on the other one...but I don't care...I have nothing better to do...so here's more:
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
-Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
-The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.
-Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
-Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
-Mr. Spock's blood type was T-Negative.
-New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
-A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
-There is actually a word for a 64th note -- a hemidemisemiquaver.
-No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-A baby oyster is called a spat.
-Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
-Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
-A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.
-Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
-The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
-Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
-In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
-Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
-M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
So...there ya have it...until I get bored again...you can expect several more...lol,(hopefully I'll find a more interesting topic)
~Zoo
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
-Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
-The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.
-The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.
-Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.
-Skin is thickest is at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
-Mr. Spock's blood type was T-Negative.
-New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.
-A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
-There is actually a word for a 64th note -- a hemidemisemiquaver.
-No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
-A baby oyster is called a spat.
-Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time.
-Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
-A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.
-Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
-The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
-Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
-In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
-Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
-M & M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
So...there ya have it...until I get bored again...you can expect several more...lol,(hopefully I'll find a more interesting topic)
~Zoo
Just kidding.