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First off- Ponder this Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the WhiteHouse. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners. Both successors were named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names compromise fifteen letters. Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. To cap it all off, Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland A hummingbird weighs less than a penny A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing. The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic. Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise. Nick Jaggar is a woman trapped in a BOY's body The driest place on earth is a series of valleys near Ross island in Antarctica where, for the past 2 million years at least, no rain has ever fallen. Under a two mile thick layer of ice at the south pole is an unfrozen lake the size of lake Ontario. Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 Inches. Mexico once had three presidents in one day. The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls. The biggest Pyramid in the world is not in Egypt. It's actually about sixty miles southeast of Mexico City, Mexico. It covers more than forty acres and the largest Egyptian Pyramid, The Great Pyramid at Giza, covers about 13 acres. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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An average of 271.896 staples are in each bar of staples. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life You can tell the sex of a Turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet. A Zebra is white with black stripes An average mattress contains 2 million house dust mites If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room it will turn white (eventually) Sharks are immune to cancer If a shark's mouth is open to long it will suffocate Anteaters prefer termites to ants A giraffe can clean its ear with its 21-inch tongue A hippo can run faster than a man can Polar bears are left handed. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure A polar bears skin is black Its fur is not white, But actually clear Rats can't vomit There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain 1in 5,000 north atlantic lobsters are born bright blue Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser Anne Boleyn had three breasts. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles Albert Einstein was tought to be suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly unitl he was 9 years old. Sir Isaac Newton was only twenty three years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitian. Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical Dirty Harry's badge # is 2211. The space between the 2 front teeth is called a diastima. Alexander the Great was an epileptic. In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. Corduroy comes from the French, meaning cloth of the king. Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite. In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls A Snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile. Snakes can't blink. A Rat can tread water for 3 days In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same The letter "I" is used exactly one hundred and nine times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value The WD in WD40 means water displacement. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together" A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure. The average person swallows 8 spiders a year. It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself. On average there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. Odds of dying while in the bath tub- 1 in 1,000,000 There are 1 million ants for every person in the world. Odds of being killed by poisoning- 1 in 86,000 Odds of being killed by space debris- 1 in 5 billion Odds of being killed by freezing- 1 in 3 million Odds of being killed by falling out of bed- 1 in 2 million Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music 13 people each year are killed by Vending Machine's falling on them Skin temperature does not go much above 95of even on the hottest days 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994 Sex burns 360 calories per hour The average human will walk the distance of 160 billion millimetres in his/hers lifetime Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000% Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36kg The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, their have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilised world The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour One human hair can support 3kgs | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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>>> A Little history lesson for you...History of Giving the Finger | Giving the Finger- Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger> of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and> the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at thedefeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK> YEW!"Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficultconsonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction> with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasantfeathers onthe arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as"giving the bird".And yew thought yew knew everything!
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