From nancy@ses.com Mon Jan 27 16:49:45 1997 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 15:13:40 -0600 From: Nancy Shindler To: shindler@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, matthew@cdsnet.net, dlj@tenet.edu, firerock , tjensen@bio.tamu.edu, EJJENSEN@CONCENTRIC.NET, humor@ses.com Subject: FW: Useless Trivia (forwards deleted) >> Some incredibly interesting facts to get you through the week: >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 >> >> 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 received in battle; if the >>horse >> has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. >> >> 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 use 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 most common name in the world is Mohammed. >> >> The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." >> >> The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. >> >> The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. >> >> Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. >> >> Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. >> The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday 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 that *this* was the day of the changeover. >> >> 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." >> >> More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. >> >> 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 was to poke someone's eye out. >> >> A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. >> >> The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. >> >> Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them >> looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. >> >> Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. >> >> Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. >> >> The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law >> which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything >> wider than your thumb. >> >> An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. >> >> The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds >> >> ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- >> >> >> > >