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Random Information
I love random information, hence my obsession with Jeopardy! Anywho, let's post some, shall we? I have a few, I'm sure you've heard some of them before...
Did you know............ ...that the black pirate flag with the skull and cross bones is called the Jolly Roger? (got that from Jeopardy last night) ...that there is a book written (and available to buy) about how to make a silencer at home???? (this was on The New Detectives... I would love to be a forensic scientist, so interesting, but science is my worst subject) ...that your foot is as long as the length from your wrist to your elbow? ...that your height is equal to your armspan (stretch out your arms)? ...female praying mantises eat the male after mating??? (she bites off his head, she needs the protien for the eggs she's carrying.) That's all I can think of right now. Post your random info here!! It might be on Jeopardy! one day!!! :) |
Praying mantis...
The praying mantis info. is actually very interesting.
I watch way too much PBS, and actually, she bites off his head DURING the act. The male knows that he is in danger, but the instinct to mate is so strong that he doesn't even try to escape, and before he knows it, he is headless... even more interestingly enough, his body actually "keeps going". Oh, the power of nature! |
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If you drink anything with caffeine or hot coffee before getting a relaxer you are increasing your chances for the relaxer to burn your scalp? If your relaxer is burning, you can rinse the relaxer and apply 7-up or Sprite, and it will ease the sensation? Our skin heals more quickly than people of other ethnicities. Keloids are a result of the overhealing process. To get a better deal on the car, negotiate with the fleet manager as opposed to the salesman. Fleet managers deal in bulk and they will cut you a deal better than any salesman ever could because he has the power to do so. You should never purchase gas when you see the tanker truck refilling the gas station tanks. I'll be back later with more :) |
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Did you ALSO know that if your relaxer is burning, you can spray oil sheen on it, for a quick fix, until you can rinse it out? (If it's not straight, I'm not rinsing, lol. Tell 'em CT4 :)) |
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Here's one more: The only hairless parts of are body are our eyelids, palms, and the bottoms of our feet. |
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er'body probably knows this one, but...
you can not sneeze with your eyes open! i tried!
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Oil Sheen....
Did you know that oil sheen will also take the smell of smoke out of your hair.
I found this out when I used to club all night Saturday and would get up & go to church on Sunday morning. LOL I'll have to think of some more. |
Yeah I'm bored at work so here's some more...
Did you know: Matchsticks were invented accidentally by John Walker, a chemist in 1827. He was trying to produce a burnable material for shotguns. His first match was a stick he was using to stir a mixture of chemicals. It burnt into flames when he scraped it against a stone floor to clean off the head. The Red Sea is so salty you cannot sink- the salt keeps you floating. Deserts have many poisonous snakes or scorpions, but few people are killed by them. More people die from mosquito bites than from all the other bites and stings put together. A million years ago there were people only in Africa. Prehistoric animals such as Sabre-toothed tiger roamed, but no dinosaurs. They had already died out 64 million years before. A camel with a sagging hump is a hungry camel. People in the desert do not wash-up with water, they use sand to clean their dirty dishes. Africa and Asia together account for just over half of all the land in the world. Boston terriers were the first animals in America to be fitted with prescription contact lenses. |
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I have stopped taking notes at night, so I can't remember my random information for today, LOL. |
- Gorillas are not monkeys, they are apes. So, there is a difference between apes and monkeys.
- Ostriches don't actually stick their head in the ground, instead they just lay their head on the ground to hide from predators. (Learned those from Stanley on the Disney Channel. I just love the Disney Channel.) |
Okay, I can come up with a lot of responses to the threads, but I always manage to forget them before I can get to my computer.. today, I happened to remember these few:
1- Two alka Seltzer tablets will clean a toilet (if you are in a hurry and want to quickly freshen the toilet...just drop and flush when the tablets dissolve) 2- When storing food, in order not to stain plastic bowls and plates w/ spaghetti sauce or other "staining foods," spray it with Pam before you put the food in it. 3- If your windshield wipers go out on your car, pour a Coke on the windshied and the rain will slide right off...(the coke will make the window a little hazy, but it'll be better than nothing!) |
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Porpoises are not fish, they are mammals. A dolphin is a fish and the shape of its snout is different than a porpoise. That is how you can tell the two apart.
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GREAT THREAD
Now I can woo my co-workers with all of the miscellaneous knowledge I have obtained...I'm a nerd :D
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Anyway, did you know that we humans pass gas supposedly 30 times per day!!! :eek: |
I have endless amounts of random trivia stored in my head, but it's so hard to produce some of it on demand. It just has to come up in the normal course of conversation, but I have been trying to remember some of it.
---Napolean did not shoot the nose off of the Sphinx. It was reported missing by an Arab historian almost 400 years before Napolean was even born ---The average American knows more about their car and their body's sexual functions ---A person at a healthy weight has between 30 and 40 billion fat cells. ---When you lose weight, your fat cells shrink but they never go away. That's why lipo-suction keeps you from gaining weight in the same place because those cells are removed ---When your black pants get kind of "ashy," if you spray oil sheen on them and rub it in, they'll be as good as new ---Denture tablets (polident, efferdent) will keep your toilet clean ---In warm weather, spray your perfume on your clothin and not your skin because your sweat will interact with chemicals and cause a totally different scent ---Homemade deep conditioning treatment for hair: mix ample amount of mayonaisse with two eggs. Cover hair with plastic cap and place a warm towel on it for deep penetration. DO NOT sit under a dryer or you will have baked egg in your hair. ---For a perfect trim, comb hair away from your head at a 90 degree angle. The ends that you can see through are those that need to be trimmed ---To thicken soups and stews, add instant mashed potato flakes. It works just as good as flour but there are no lumps |
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Killer Whales or Orcas are actually members of the dolphin family! :) |
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You should never get your hair cut with your legs crossed. It causes an uneven cut. Tupac's real name was Lesane Parish Crooks and his mother's name is Alice Fay Walker. Preparation H can reduce puffiness around the eyes. Running cold water on freshly polished nails causes it to dry faster. Applying cuticle oil or oil sheen on freshly polished nails causes it to dry faster also. Make sure the oil sheen doesn't contain alcohol, or it will produce a dulling film on your polish. |
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Did you know that vultures can eat ANYTHING? They can eat disease infested carcasses, even anthrax infested. And they don't get any of the diseases!! Something in the acid in their stomach kills it all. And their feces show NO TRACES of the disease. Isn't that amazing? Doesn't that make you wonder if they can use the stomach acid of vultures to cure diseases? And have they tried it?
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Did he and his mother convert to practicing Islam?? Is that why they changed their names? |
This IS a good thread.
Did you know: 1. That most men are color blind? 2. That you can get the erosion off of batteries by pouring Coke or Pepsi on it. The acid from the soda removes it? 3. Rubbing alcohol is the PERFECT window and glass cleaner? (And this is a fact). 4. One way that some people (like those in the desert or in other extremely hot places) stay warm at night (because it gets cold at night in the desert) is by covering themselves with sand? 5. That sheep (females) sex organs (aka: vaginas) are very similar to the human female's vagina? There are more, but I just can't think right now. But here's just ONE more: Did you know... THAT I'VE GOT TO GO TO WORK NOW BECAUSE I'VE GOT A MEETING AT 10:00am? :D :D :D Be back with more later. |
-Sneezes can travel at 100mph
-All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20 -Almonds are members of the peach family -Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur -A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds |
Dang, I didn't know ANY of that. I didn't know that tigers had striped SKIN also. That must be something to see.
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Random Thanksgiving Information
Did you know that Americans are expected to consume over 675 million pounds of turkey this Thanksgiving?
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Did you know that Spike Lee's first REAL name is Shelton? I forgot the rest of his name, I'll bring it tomorrow. Has anyone ever seen When Harry Met Sally? "Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal, Sheldon, ride me, big Shel-don." Hilarious, LOL.
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interesting word origins
Catch-22 I always wanted to know this!
This phrase, meaning a situation where one bureaucratic regulation is dependent on another, which in turn is dependent on the first, derives from the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller: Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. "Is Orr crazy?" "He sure is," Doc Daneeka said. "Can you ground him?" "I sure can. But first he has to ask me to. That's part of the rule." "Then why doesn't he ask you to?" "Because he's crazy," Doc Daneeka said. "He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all the close calls he's had. Sure, I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to." "That's all he has to do to be grounded?" "That's all. Let him ask me." "And then you can ground him?" Yossarian asked. "No. Then I can't ground him." "You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. Heller originally titled his novel Catch-18, but at the request of his publisher changed it. Leon Uris had just published Mila-18 and the publisher did not want confusion between the two books. Brownie Points This term derives from the girl scouts. That organization had (has?) a system of points that the girls would accumulate toward advancement. The phrase entered the general language from WWII in military slang. Uniforms, the army's tendency to have soldiers do things that seemed silly and child-like, and evocation of brown-nose all contributed to the popularity of the phrase. I worked for the GS and I never knew this!! Mind Your P's & Q's I always wanted to know this, too! The phrase dates to the late 18th century--at least 1779. The exact origin is unknown, but several competing hypotheses seem to be the most likely. The first is that it derives from the phrase p and q which was an abbreviation for prime quality. This English dialectical term dates to the 17th century. So to mind your p's and q's would mean to be exacting in detail and ensure high quality. The second is that it refers to difficulty children had in learning to distinguish between the letters p and q, being mirror images of one another. To learn one's p's and q's is a phrase meaning to learn one's letters is first recorded around 1830--somewhat later but not impossible as the origin. Often this explanation is identified with printers and distinguish between a p and a q in type, but the early use exclusively deals with children, not printing. The third, first suggested by Farmer and Henley at the turn of the 20th century, is that the phrase comes from the practice of maintaining a tally in pubs and taverns. Marks under column P, for pint, or Q, for quart, would be made on a blackboard. To tell a bartender to mind his Ps and Qs would be to tell him to mind his own business and get back to work. Another commonly suggested explanation is that it is a variation on mind your pleases and thank yous, a plea for gentility and manners. There is no evidence to support this, nor does the please and thank you phrase appear anywhere except in explanations of the Ps and Qs origin. The last is from the world of printing. Typesetters had to be skilled in reading letters backward, as the blocks of type would have mirror images of the letters. The lower-case letters p and q were particularly difficult to distinguish because they are mirrors of one another and located in bins next to one another. Typesetters had to be particularly careful not to confuse the two. Which is the correct one is anybody's guess (except the fourth which is certainly false). I favor the second explanation, but that is just a personal preference. Phat Phat is another word that frequently is given an acronymic origin. The exact acronym varies with the telling, Pretty Hot And Tempting, Pretty Hips And Thighs, and Pussy Hips Ass Tits have all been suggested. There is no evidence supporting any acronymic origin. Rather, phat is most likely simply a slang respelling of fat. Such respellings are common in slang. And fat has a long history of meaning rich, abundant, or desirable. Fat has been used this way in English since the early 17th century, and in other languages for far longer. The specific sexual connotation of phat is likely just a specialization of the general meaning. Some suggest it may be a clipping of emphatic. Again, there is no evidence for this last, but at least it's more plausible than any of the acronymic origins. Phat is also older than you might think. It has been a staple of African American slang since at least 1963. Piccaninny This word is a West Indian variation on the Spanish pequeno or pequenino meaning diminutive or tiny one. It entered English around 1687. Applied to small, black children, originally it was a term of endearment but is considered offensive today. Picnic Internet lore (and perhaps folklore prior to the internet) has the origin of this word as lynching party for blacks in the American South, originally deriving from the phrase pick an nigger. This is absolutely incorrect. The word's origins have no racial overtones whatsoever. In actuality, the word derives from the French pique-nique, meaning the same thing as it does in English--an outing that includes food. Pique is either a reference to a leisurely style of eating (as in "pick at your food") or it's a reference to selective delicacies chosen for the outing. Nique is a nonsense syllable chosen to rhyme. The word appears in English as early as 1748 in reference to picnics in Germany. The word did not gain widespread use in Britain until c. 1800. BUUUUUUUT... Grandfather Clause A grandfather clause is one that allows someone who previously had the right to do something to continue doing it even though the law forbids it to others. For example, when I turned nineteen, the state of New Jersey allowed me to drink alcohol. Later than year, they raised the drinking age to twenty-one, but since I was already of legal drinking age, I was grandfathered and could continue to legally consume alcoholic beverages. But why grandfather? The term comes from discriminatory practices of certain Southern states against blacks. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some Southern states had laws requiring payment of a poll tax or taking of a literacy test before one could vote. The poor and illiterate were denied the right to vote. This was race-neutral except for clauses in the state constitutions that exempted someone from poll taxes or literacy tests if their grandfather had had the right to vote. This meant that virtually all whites, whose grandfathers could vote before the imposition of these laws, were allowed to vote, while most blacks were denied the right to vote. Over the years, the term has lost the racial stigma and no longer connotes racial bias. The term grandfather clause dates to 1900. The verb form, to grandfather, is more recent, dating to 1972. (got these from http://www.wordorigins.org/) |
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From snapple.com.....
I just read this fact when I opened my ice tea:
"Real Fact" #147 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic. Get all the "Real Facts" at www.snapple.com :cool: |
someone once told me that there are three words in the english language that end with "gry" one is angry the other is hungry. Can someone tell me what the other one is??
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"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it? Answer: "language". This puzzle has circulated widely on the Internet for some years, but usually in an abbreviated form such as "Name three common English words ending in 'gry'", which has no good third answer. Maybe I'm dumb, but I still don't get it. How does the word language end in "gry"? |
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