The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
(smokers are gross!!)
A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
It's making me feel better though
If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.
Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body.
If you were to take the Earth and cut it in half along a line passing from the North Pole through Paris, and then measure the distance of the curve running from the North Pole to the equator on that circle, and then divide that distance by 10,000, you would have the traditional unit for the kilometer as defined in 1791 by the French Academy of Sciences.
A left-handed individual is colloquially referred to as a "leftie." In more technical contexts, 'sinistral' may be used in place of 'left-handed' and 'sinistrality' in place of 'left-handedness.' Both of these technical terms derive from sinister, a Latin word meaning 'left'.
Bulgaria is the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, the second most widely used alphabet in the world, which was developed in the 10th century.
The television series "ER" was originally planned as a movie to be directed by Steven Spielberg. When plans fell through and the project eventually became a series, Spielberg became interested in another Michael Crichton creation: Jurassic Park
ok...I'm done.
Temporary relief, I guess.
a little more relief![]()
this will help with your temporary relief if used properly..
Of course I own this.
IT PUTS THE OREOS ON THE RIM
some crazy moves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiH0S...eature=related
Hmmm....time to add a little color to my posts. They're lookin a little boring
WTF is going on people??
he will race you and let you win every time roxie
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I would do some horrible things to that man.........................just sayin
every guy i talk to says that he is a goofy-looking motherfucker, but i don't see how at all, that is alll yums and jealousy hhaa
They killed my picture
oh well
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roxie im surprised you dont have a photobucket album full of his pics like echo has of females.
bet you do have him as your background. haha do you have him as a screensaver too?
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I wanna get to 4k posts![]()