July 26, 2006 | Category: Personal
Might be that I am a little bored…..
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Back in the mid to late ’80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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