Useless Facts

[LordShard]

Furthest east state is alaska
Furthest west state is alaska
Furthest north state is alaska
Furthest south state is hawaii I think.

[VlfPlyer]

Originally posted by LordShard
Furthest east state is alaska

huh? how? int. date line?
Longitude / Latitude?
I must know......... your blowing my mind!

Furthest west state is alaska
Furthest north state is alaska
Furthest south state is hawaii I think. :blow:

[DocTrebor Profile]

i like animal crackers

[LordShard]

Originally posted by VlfPlyer
huh? how? int. date line?
Longitude / Latitude?
I must know......... your blowing my mind!

[B]Furthest west state is alaska
Furthest north state is alaska
Furthest south state is hawaii I think. :blow: [/B]

alutian aslands They cross the point where west becomes east.

[Sabres Profile ICQ]

Originally posted by =DocTrebor=
i like animal crackers

Where did this come from Doc?

[VlfPlyer]

Originally posted by Sabres914
Where did this come from Doc?

Well its a sad sad story.........

[Sabres Profile ICQ]

You know the explanation behind that wierd comment by Doc? lol Tell me the story.

[SkiloDog2000 Profile WebsiteYIM]

prime merridian is the term i believe

[SkiloDog2000 Profile WebsiteYIM]

Originally posted by Evan
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily (I knew it!).

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist that discovered this??)

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down while shooting so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson".

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

29. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

31. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

32. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The suits or the astronauts??)

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[Joe Pesci]

Are you serious, im gonna go buyTWOscoprions and pour a bottle of gin on them, catch it all on video tape and have a good time!

By the way, does anyone know how much your garden variety scorpion is?

[Sabres Profile ICQ]

Seriously you should try to do that and see if it is true. Do it Joe or is that animal abuse?

[SGT DEVILDOG Profile]

Pour a bottle of scotch down my throat and I will dance for you as well.

[jnkcrp Profile]

Pour a bottle of scotch down my throat and I will dance for you as well.

Ya well I don't think any of us want to be around when you try to "sting yourself to death":freak:

[Geist Profile]

5 true and stupid facts and something new you'll learn by Geist

1) The First Stream-powered railroad train left Liverpool England, on Sep 15, 1830. What else Happened on the day? The first train accident, in which a man standing too close to the tracks was hit by the train and killed.

2) A steamship, the General Slocum, burned and sank in 1904. A thousand people died becasue a fire started in a locked room with flammable materials, the fire hose has been sealed to prevent water leaks, lifeboats were to tightly lashed to the desks to be loosened, and the life jakets had been nailed to the walls.

3) Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant wasn't U.S. Grant. He was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but felt humiliated by the innitials HUG. So ge swithced his names around to Ulysses Hiram Grant. The congressman who nominated him tp West Point wrote his name wrong as Ulysses Simpson Grant. The young cadet liked those initials, and so did the union in years to come.

4) Fredrick the great of Prussia had buttons sewn on the sleeves of his soilders coats, to stop them from wiping their noses on thier sleeves. and thats how mens jackets got sleeve buttons that dont button.

5) Because his teachers condsidered younf Thomas Edison "addled." he was home-schooled by his mother. the boy scientist's first invention... feeding a friend a dose of gaseous powder to see if it would make him float. Edison recived his first patent when he was 22, then 1,092 more followed.

[SkiloDog2000 Profile WebsiteYIM]

Originally posted by jnkcrp
Ya well I don't think any of us want to be around when you try to "sting yourself to death":freak:

this is true