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Strange Facts

right now I dont have a local tidbit paper, I have a out of state one, though the number they show is the same as one of the numbers on one of those books I bought locally.

1-800-523-3096

www.tidbitsweekly.com


or just look under tidbits media or paper or something along those lines.
I'll say they're fun to read if you get several businesses to support it & a newspaper company to print it.
 
chilehunter said:
right now I dont have a local tidbit paper, I have a out of state one, though the number they show is the same as one of the numbers on one of those books I bought locally.

1-800-523-3096

www.tidbitsweekly.com


or just look under tidbits media or paper or something along those lines.
I'll say they're fun to read if you get several businesses to support it & a newspaper company to print it.

Thanks man... I'm gonna look into it
 
Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
 
ExtremeBurn said:
Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

That's great!



Mexico City sinks 10 inches per year
 
rainbowberry said:
Dick I thought everyone knew what he looked like, he looks just like I imagined him to.

I need a pic for the file, what ever happened to that Talas, hes got your pony
 
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry
by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front
legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has
one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on
the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

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.

Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language
of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say
"many things" and used a term which has come down to us as
40. This means that when the bible -- in many places --
refers to "40 days," they meant many days.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted
people without killing them used to burn their houses down
- hence the expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on
July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the
rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't
added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots
in the South 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."

The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights
begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly
pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound
does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied
(present day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent
"th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the
character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled
thorn was the lower case "y".

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica
is 672.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called
'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set
off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power
factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than
a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point
of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can
be felt unaided.)

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The
story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at
the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads
in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a week-
day at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides.
This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where
drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too
sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

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

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with
"rejoice."

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again,
Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear
Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty,"
but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die
in air crashes.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that
is flown differently during times of peace or war. A
portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The
blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red
portion is flown in war time.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king. This custom has become the
modern military salute.

The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football
player who used sign language to communicate and his team
didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and
in turn huddled around him.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could
only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his
desk.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will
die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die
of oxygen deprivation.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has
been hit by a lightning strike.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an
eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling
matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed,
but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's
eye out.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the
Church of England.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th
of a second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed,
and continue living.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after
Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that
makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the
great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10
of a calorie.
 
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not
to have a full moon.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in
New York City, after the Catholic Church.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the
lowest point in Colorado.

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was
burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because
cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers
-- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically
addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive
at this very moment
 
*The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.
Its name was Fred.
*There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
*Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
*Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine.
His parents thought he might be retarded.
*In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa
completely out of toast.
*In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
*An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
*The average person is about a quarter of an
inch taller at night.
*The condom - made originally of linen - was invented
in the early 1500s.
*The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung,
used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
*America's first nudist organization was founded
in 1929, by 3 men.
*A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if
her husband doesn't give her coffee.
*The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
*The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
*Every person has a unique tongue print.
*Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
*Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
*Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
*About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just
to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding
reality for four more years.]
*Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
*Most lipstick contains fish scales.
*Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
*The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ,
Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
*27% of U.S. male college students believe life is
"a meaningless existential hell."
*Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
*"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
 
* The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile
in every five must be straight. These straight sections
are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

* The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world
where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car
driving under an airplane.

* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.

* David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star
Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that
he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until
he saw the screening of the movie.

* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

* Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without
a McDonalds.

* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many
bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s,
the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six
inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

* Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every
Dewey-decimal category.

* Cat's urine glows under a black light.

* Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer
wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it
could run Microsoft's Flight
Simulator.

* The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

* It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni,
and about a gallon to clean the pot.

* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.

* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear
until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

* If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies,
you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of
money in coins without being able to make change for a
dollar. (This would make a GREAT math brain teaser!)

* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
(How much did you pay for those new sneakers??)

* No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed
stadium has ever won a Superbowl

* The only two days of the year in which there are no
professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are
the day before and the day after the Major League All-
Star Game.

And, last but certainly not least...

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave
It To Beaver".
 
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