The statement I’ve always heard is that hummingbirds are the only bird that feeds while hovering (or something along those lines).
I’ve mentioned these before, but it’s been a while:
Only 2 US states have never had a recorded temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. You guessed them: Alaska and Hawaii
Atlanta is closer to Chicago than it is to Miami.
Reno, NV is further west than San Diego, CA.
Portions of 27 US states are more north than the southernmost point in Ontario, Canada.
Does this sinking thing apply to rats as well? 'Cause I’ve got one hairless rat and one normal one at home that’re likely to become comparative test subjects this evening.
What do you expect? They always have their trunks with them.
Daryl Hannah is also missing part of one finger from a childhood accident.
Benito Mussolini was a multilinguist. At the 1938 Munich Conference with Chamberlain, Daladier, and Hitler, he was the only one who could converse directly with the other three.
Queen Elizabeth I was also a multilinguist. She knew English, French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh.
Mine isn’t. I don’t think I know anyone of whom this could be said, either. We’d all be wearing clown shoes!
Dan Ayckroyd has webbed toes, something he demonstrated on the abortive Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video. Maybe he can donate some skin so those other celebrities can reconstruct their fingers.
I don’t know if this is a joke but part of the shock of this one is how big the length looks on your arm and yet it measures the same when you compare. It is true for most people.
This is one of those things that everybody knows… but is wrong. The Islands were named after the Canarii tribe that lived there.
Now, according to Pliny, the Canarii were named for their habit of eating like dogs but that doesn’t mean that the Islands are named after dogs.
Lanzarotte wasn’t named after a broken lance, either.
On the subject of actors with missing fingers, Matthew Perry is missing a fingertip.
Gary Burghoff doesn’t have a missing finger, but he does have several very small fingers, and a club foot.
Jeremy Beadle * has a tiny right hand.
*British minor celebrity and annoying twit. Non-Brits, if you don’t know him you can count yourself lucky.
The best lotto numbers to play are the ones that won the week prior: You are very unlikely to have to share the jackpot should you win.
Probably there are 2000 people following that same logic. If the same numbers ever came up 2 weeks running, each winner would get the smallest payout in history.
A current ad for Bailey’s Irish Cream shows people drinking it out of an ice bucket with a straw. The alcohol is not shown, but the character is clearly drinking alcohol.
Hmmmm… Yes, maybe you are right. The plan could backfire…
Well, what remains interesting to me is that a set of specific numbers is no less likely to be the winning set simply because they appeared the week prior.
Further, it can be said that the set “1,2,3,4,5,6” is just as likely to appear as the winning set ten times in a row as is any other collection of six-number sets.
But, being members of this board, we all know this already 
Mine is, but only if you count only the inner arm, from the inner elbow to the wrist. Then it’s exactly the same.
In Columbus’s logbooks he spoke of the people he encountered as the “Cariba” after the name of their tribe, hence the name Caribbean. The tribal name is also pronounced Caniba in some Indian dialects, hence the word Cannibal. (Since cannibalism was known in Europe long before Columbus, I wonder what it was called before?) Other words that came into popular use from Caribbean Indians include hurricane (Hurakan was the name of the storm god in several tribes), barbecue, tobacco, canoe, papaya, and manatee.
There is much debate, but some linguists believe that testify/testimony and testicles both derive from a common etymological ancestor. The practice of men taking oaths by holding their testicles (or the testicles of their master) is ancient, widespread, and mentioned repeatedly in the Bible (among other times, Abraham has his servant place his hand on Abe’s testicles and swear he will do his best to find Isaac a good wife).
The bloodiest race riot in American history occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on May 31, 1921. Tony Randall, a native of Tulsa, was just learning to talk about this time. Coincidence?
One of Judy Garland’s most famous quotes was about her gay following: “When I die they’ll fly the flags at half mast on Fire Island.” Ironically, the entire modern phase of the gay rights movement can be traced directly to a memorial service for her (but in NYC itself, not Long Island).
I’ve heard you should avoid numbers below 32 because a lot of people pick dates as their “lucky” numbers. If you pick high numbers that hit, you’ll be sharing the prize with fewer winners.
There are two survivors of the Titanic still living. The oldest was 10 months old when the ship sank, the other a few weeks old. Both live in nursing homes in England.
When the U.S. government appropriated $30,000 to buy 75 camels and import them to Texas and other spots in the American west, it was also necessary to import camel drivers. One was a man of Greek, Turkish and bedouin ancestry named Ilyas Kalles, who like most of the camel drivers imported from Turkey and Egypt chose to remain in America long after the camel corps was discontinued. He married a Mexican woman and they adopted her nephew, Plutarco, who became president of Mexico . (No idea why I find that interesting that a displaced camel driver had a kid who became president of a major New World nation, but I do.)
General Joseph Johnston, the last major Confederate general to surrender, died of pneumonia he received serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of General William T. Sherman, the general he surrendered to, 26 years after his surrender. Speaking of Sherman, he never said “War is hell” (though he did express the sentiment- just not those exact words).
Wow, the Atlanta one is very surprising!
Here’s one for Canadians: St John’s, NL is further south than Victoria, BC
Mitt Romney, the senator from Utah and Republican presidential hopeful and who has spoken out not only against gay marriage but against gay civil unions that would provide even so much as hospital visitation benefits, is the great-grandson, great-great-grandson, and great-great-great-grandson of polygamists on several different sides of his family. His father (a monogamist) was born in Chihuahua, Mexico because his family had taken refuge south of the border to continue practicing “the Principle”. Romney’s ancestor Parley Pratt was one of the most influential members of the early church and an Apostle. Romney has joked “marriage is between a man and a woman… and a woman and a woman and a woman”, but of course disavows polygamy.