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my playlist right now...
Pink Floyd - US & Them
Pink Floyd - Speak To Me
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd - Breathe
today in history...
1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
1877 - Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)
1955 - KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt
and birthdays...
1817 - Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1908 - Franz Pfnr, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1941 - David Porter, US songwriter (Soul Man)
1944 - Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Phila Pa, NBA Guard (NY Knicks, Balt Bullets)
1970 - Keith Crawford, wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
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Did you know?
- Pinocchio was made of pine.
- An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- Chickens can't swallow while they are upside-down.
- There are more chickens in the world than people.
- The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
- The US Patent Office received over one hundred patent entries for Perpetual
Motion Machines each year.
- The British Patent Office will not accept patents for Perpetual Motion Machines.
- A novel with 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter E was written by
Ernest Wright.
- Mark Twain's book Tom Sawyer (1876) was the first novel to ever be written on a
typewriter.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every major category of the
Dewey decimal system.
- The Paramount logo contains 22 stars.
- After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it was dismantled, and rebuilt as a
barn.
- The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are:
ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
- You consume one tenth (0.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
- Laughter is a proven way to lose weight.
- The pound sign (#) is called an anoctothorpe.
- There was once a town named 6 in West Virginia.
- A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
- Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
- Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment in your skin orange. (Carotene is
the same substance that makes leaves turn orange in the fall).
- The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- Every day the sun loses about 360 million tons.
- The first word spoken on the moon was Okay.
- Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot.
- Popeye was five feet, six inches.
- The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
- The most common name for a gold fish is Jaws.
- The most common (human) name in the world is Mohammed.
- The longest name in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is Malhershalahashbaz.
- The shortest verse in the Bible is Jesus Wept. (John 11:35)
- The word "and" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
- There are 17 steps to the apartment of Sherlock Holmes.
- In an average day, a four-year-old child will ask 437 questions.
- The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
- The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.
- More people are alive today than have ever died.
- A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.
- 2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
- Einstein didn't like to wear socks.
- Einstein was a bad student, and dropped out of school.
- Galileo's last name was Galilei, his first name was Galileo. (Earth revolved
around the sun theory)
- The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the
sun until the mid 1990s.
- In Michelangelo's ceiling painting of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II
pressured him to finish the giant painting on time.
For this, Michelangelo didn't like the Pope, and placed him, and others he
didn't like, in hell when he painted the Judgment Day scene.
- In the Dark, Middle, and Mediaeval ages, the Pope was the true ruler of Europe,
because disobedient kings were threatened with eternal damnation.
- The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
- Elvis Presley was named a Special Federal Narcotics Agent by Richard Nixon.
- The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928.
- The telephone's US patent number is 174465
- The first Life Savers was peppermint flavoured.
- Life Savers candy was produced by a chocolate maker, to make up for the low
chocolate sales in the summer.
- The shell makes up 12% of an eggs total mass.
- The Statue of Liberty's crown has seven points.
- The doorbell was invented in 1831.
- The world's most common non-contagious disease is tooth decay The monkey wrench
was invented by Charles Moncke.
- Until the mid-1800s, only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan.
- The British launched a war with Japan, because Japan would not let the British
import the addictive drug opium. (Japan suffered a great defeat at sea)
- A quasicrystal is the only crystal to not have a repeating structure.
- A quasicrystal is the only crystal with five-fold symmetry.
- A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.
- A baby born in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
- If you don't want to figure that out, it's these words combined; True will
laughing life bucky boomer manifestdestiny. (manifestdestiny: n. a belief in the
1800s that the United States destiny is to span from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Pacific Ocean.)
- The only words in the English language to contain two ``Us'' back to back are:
vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
- The shortest sentence in the English language is, I am.
- The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double
letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
- The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A, B, C, D, E
and F is: Feedback
- The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
- An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
- India has 50 million monkeys.
- If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
- Pigs can run a mile in seven minutes.
- The mother of Mike Nesmith, a member of the rock group The Monkeys, invented
liquid paper.
- The parking meter was invented in 1935 by C.C. Magee.
- After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
- Pi has been calculated to over
2,260,321,363 digits.
- The billionth digit of Pi is 9
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