Ulysses Simpson Grant is not Grant’s correct name, his real name is Hiram Ulysses Grant. Simpson was his mothers maiden name and when he went to West Point they entered his name incorrectly
If you hum at a periwinkle, it’ll emerge (partially) from its shell.
Everyone of European ancestry alive today is descended from the Emperor Charlemagne (obviously this can’t be absolutely proved, but it is believed to be so).
I hear from trusted sources that there is in fact a ring of debris around Uranus.
The main reason is because liquid hydrogen is less dense than gasoline.
(Hijack- I always find it kinda sad that they’re called the Beaker People.)
Anyway back to the topic at hand, according to the 2006 Census, there are 64 widowed teenagers in the Republic of Ireland.
If the US National Debt was a stack of dollar bills, it would reach from the Earth to the Moon 2 3/4 times, or 656,197 miles.
There is a species of wallaby native to Hawaii.
A couple escaped from a zoo in the early 1900’s and adapted to the local environment.
A blue whale’s aorta is large enough for a grown man to crawl through.
Neither emus nor kangaroos can walk backwards.
They are featured on the Australian coat of arms with the text “Advance Australia.”
The words vanilla and vagina mean pretty much the same thing.
As long as we’re educating each other…How can I allow HTML in my sig?
That is just incredible. Makes me dizzy just thinking about it!
It is impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze.
a) was an actress in the 1940s. . .
b) appeared in numerous newspaper headlines in scandalous stories. . .
c) later moved mack to New York State, where she taugh dancing lessons. . .
d) became an advisor to the movie “Dirty Dancing”. . . and
e) was the inspiration for the “Penny” character in that same movie.
Great! at this rate we will be able to walk to Mars in a couple of years!
/end hijack.
sorry
While popular culture would have us believe that one is the loneliest number, it turns out that 2.4 is shunned and ridiculed by all the other numbers - and it, not one, is the loneliest number.
When you tune to an unused TV channel or the cable fails, about 5% of that TV interference (aka “snow”) is the remaining energy from the Big Bang.
(I read that decades ago and have tried to research it on the Internet. Depending on the source, the “Big Bang percentage” seems to vary from about 1 to 5 per cent. An exact figure would be much appreciated.)
The ideal moisture content of popcorn is generally thought to be about 13.5%; however, a range of 13% to 14.5% is acceptable.
Yak milk is pink. (There’s blood in it)
Male elephants have prehensile penises. This is necessary because female elephants have very long and twisty vaginal passages that the male elephant has to be able to navigate. As a result of this, it is very difficult to artificially inseminate a female elephant.
It is possible to survive on nothing but mare’s milk and blood. I once read about a nomadic tribe that did exactly that (they were careful to bleed the mares without killing or seriously injuring them).
In South Korea, anyone not in the military owning or selling a gun faces execution.
I have a vague recollection of that being part of the Cosmos TV series, anyway, when I was a wee lad that really impressed me. Whoa, I remember that there where some instructions, like channeling an empty channel, turning the brightness all the way down and the contrast all the way up (or something to that effect) and of the remaining specks of white flashing on the black screen some low percentage represented the background radiation from the Big Bang.
As for the bacteria living on and in us… they outnumber the cells that make us up to ten to one. We are more them than us.