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MyHuntingForum Main => General Hunting Discussion => Topic started by: 30-30 on Mar 14, 2015, 04:47:38 AM
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From time to time I come across some facts that I didn't know. I'm sure you all may have some as well, so lets hear some.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes
when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed
firmer to sleep on. that's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight"
came from.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test
telex/twx communications)
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.
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When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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c'mon guys some one must have a strange fact to share.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the . 50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the
whole 9 yards."
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I thought the dog was brown... There are now brown foxes :o
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did you know 15 minutes or less could save you 15% on you car insurance?
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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.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain ::)
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Jeez, I know some people like that....h2l
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you can buy gold pills that you can take to put gold glitter in your poop
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The 'Bicycle Tree', found near Brig o' Turk in Scotland, has consumed an entire bike that now hangs out of its bark.
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In Japan there are more adult diapers sold than baby diapers........eeeewwwwkkkk
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Denver has more marijuana stores that starbucks now
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The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, GP
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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Duh! ???
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Penguins drink salt water. A special gland filters the salt out. Then they sneeze it away!
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No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Super Bowl in a dome.
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The Colts beat the Bears in Miami.
I know the Colts have a dome.
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The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver. ::)
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Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have
notched edges, while pennies and nickels do not? The US Mint
began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and
silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of
the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half dollars are
notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels
aren't notched because the metals they contain were not valuable
enough to shave.
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You know chewing gum was the first item you could purchase from a vending machine
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Some Taxing Information
The Gettysburg address is 269 words, the Declaration of Independence
is 1,337 words, and the Holy Bible is only 773,000 [I don't know what
version the author was referring to] words. However, the tax law has
grown from 11,400 words in 1913, to 7 million words today.
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There are at least 480 different tax forms, each with many pages of
instructions.
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Even the easiest form, the1040E has 33 pages in instructions, and
all in fine print.
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The IRS sends out 8 billion pages of forms and instructions each
year. Laid end to end, they would stretch 28 times around the earth.
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Nearly 300,000 trees are cut down yearly to produce the paper for all
the IRS forms and instructions.
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American taxpayers spend $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working
to comply with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce
every car, truck, and van in the United States.
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The IRS employs 114,000 people; that's twice as many as the CIA and
five times more than the FBI.
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60% of taxpayers must hire a professional to get through their own
return.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own
weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. That makes the catfish #1 for
the animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves
to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Starfish don't have brains.
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Starfish don't have brains.--
I get it---Sheldon Silver is a Starfish!!!
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's supply of footballs.
But I thought it was a "pig skin"...
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But I thought it was a "pig skin"...
I thought the same thing myself....
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This should answer your question
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/are-footballs-really-made-of-pigskin/ (http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/are-footballs-really-made-of-pigskin/)
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Well I,ll be a prolate spheroid! ;D
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Costa Rica has now powered the entire country for more than 75 days using only renewable energy. The country hasn’t needed fossil fuel for all of 2015 thanks to hydropower and a heavy rainy season.
The nation of 5 million inhabitants also gets renewable energy contributions from a mix of solar, geothermal and wind power.
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Well I,ll be a prolate spheroid! ;D
Like a cone head, lol ;D
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Lol. ;D
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25
miles per year.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale
of vodka.
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a
month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law
with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because
their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month"
or what we know today as the "honeymoon." Who Knew! ???
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old
England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to
mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we Get the
phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
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Their are more chickens in the world than humans! :o
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Did you know chickens don't like crossing the road
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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into
the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they
used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase
inspired by this practice.
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During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant – it is said – noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant’s home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat.
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A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
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the word sh*t came from ship high in transit which was to prevent to much methane building up of manure in transit??
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-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit. ???
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President John Adams would skip school at times so he could go fishing ....
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A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth. ? ???
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7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.