20 Useless but Interesting facts
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Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, was home to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Hailed as a wonder drug in the late nineteenth century, cocaine was outlawed in the United States in 1914.
The practice of exchanging presents at Christmas originated with the Romans.
Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day.
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.
Values on the Monopoly gameboard are the same today as they were in 1935.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States was a Baptist preacher, in 1789.
Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Meteorologists claim they’re right 85% of the time.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
August is the month when most baby’s are born.
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15 Dumb Celebrity Quotes
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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” Brooke Shields
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” Dan Quayle
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” Christina Aguilera
“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.” Britney Spears
“I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them.” George Bush
“I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.” Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
“It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment, it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” Dan Quayle
“I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.” Tara Reid
“Is this chicken what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna but it says Chicken, by the Sea” Jessica Simpson
“It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.” Guy Ritchie
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.” Joe Biden
“All of the sudden, you’re like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I’m going through.” R Kelly
“It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a school teacher.” Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
“Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling. “ – Gary Busey
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Top Ten Quotes on Stupidity
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“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein
“A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” Bill Cosby
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” Will Rogers
“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.” Harlan Ellison
“Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.” Unknown
“Fools rush in where fools have been before.” Anonymous
‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” Abraham Lincoln
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin
“Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.” Heinrich Heine
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” Robert Heinlein
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20 dumbest sports quotes
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Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious. – Alan Minter
If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again – Terry Venables
Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious – Charles Shackleford
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win. – Doug Collins
You can sum up this sport [boxing] in two words: ‘You never know. -Lou Duva
He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. –Lou Deva
I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. –Tug Mcgraw
Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical. –Yogi Berra
He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings. –Torrin Polk
I’ll always be Number 1 to myself. -Moses Malone
You guys line up alphabetically by height. -Bill Peterson
I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. -New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers
It gets late early out here. – Yogi Berra
The term ‘genius’ is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein – Joe Theisman
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like pimps. – Tiger Woods
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. – Dizzy Dean
It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up. – Dizzy Dean
American professional athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity. – Gordie Howe
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don’t realize that most of us only make $500,000.” -Pete Incaviglia
I ain’t gonna be no escape-goat! – Karl Malone
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30 Interesting Facts
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“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.
Tickets for Frank Sinatra’s first solo performance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City in 1942, sold for 35 cents each.
The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
Bill Gates’ first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
Headlines Gone Wrong
Here is my first collection of ‘headlines gone wrong’. Remember these are in a nice little zip file for your download if you would like to take them for your facebook or twitter usage. If you have others that you would like to submit. You certainly are welcomed to become a guest blogger.
Headlines gone bad: GRANDMOTHER OF EIGHT MAKES HOLE IN ONE
Headlines gone bad: DEAF MUTE GETS NEW HEARING IN KILLING
Headlines gone bad: DEFENDANT’S SPEECH ENDS IN LONG SENTENCE
Headlines gone bad: ASBESTOS SUIT PRESSED
Headlines gone bad: DOCTOR TESTIFIES IN HORSE SUIT
Headlines gone bad: COMPLAINTS ABOUT NBA REFEREES GROWING UGLY
Headlines gone bad: POLICE BEGIN CAMPAIAGN TO RUNDOWN JAYWALKERS
Headlines gone bad: FLAMING TOILET SEAT CAUSES EVACUATION AT HIGH SCHOOL
Headlines gone bad: HOUSE PASSES GAS TAX ONTO SENATE
Headlines gone bad: POLICE DISCOVER CRACK IN AUSTRALIA
Headlines gone bad: TUNA BITING OFF WASHINGTON COAST
Headlines gone bad: STIFF OPPOSITION EXPECTED TO CASKETLESS FUNERAL PLAN
Headlines gone bad: MEN RECOMMEND MORE CLUBS FOR WIVES
Headlines gone bad: MANY ANTIQUES SEEN AT D.A.R. MEETING
Headlines gone bad: IKE SAYS NIXON CAN’T STAND PAT
Headlines gone bad: TWO CONVICTS EVADE NOOSE; JURY HUNG
Headlines gone bad: U.S. AUDIT FINDS FUNDS FOR YOUTH MISSPENT
Top Quotes for the week of September 6
Each week we will bring a smattering of quotes that are our favorites. They may have been included in our tweets or not. If you would like to contribute to the site … you may become a guest blogger. You have to bring good quotes to the table. You can link back to your site … a big plus I know.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. – Harry S Truman
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. –Jesus Christ
Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. –Ira Gassen
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. –Henry B. Adams
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon. There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people. –William Barclay
Great minds talk about ideas, Average minds talk about things, Small minds talk about other people.
The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone? — Ecclesiastes 6:11
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his “clear and present danger” majority opinion in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, and is one of the most influential American common law judges. Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90, making him the oldest Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. He also served as a Justice and as Chief Justice on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and was a professor of law at Harvard Law School, of which he was an alumnus. (via wikipedia)
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man has will, but woman has her way. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man’s mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Amen of nature is always a flower. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Quotes from Rick Warren
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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done, … God will use anybody if you’re available. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Faithful servants never retire, … You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
We are product of our past but we dont have to be prisoners of it … – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Untimately, it’s not what you know that shapes your life, but what you worship. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
The big error young leaders make is thinking leadership is about the leader. It’s NOT about you! It’s about those u serve. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Authenticity is being what you seem & saying what you mean. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
If you think you’re too big for a small task, you’re too small for a big one. See Luke 16:10 – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Little souls need big titles. Big souls need no titles. Any Pastor who’d rather be called “Doctor” exposes his insecurity & ego – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Stretching yourself just a little yields exponential results.A 2 inch hose carries 4 TIMES as much water as a 1 inch hose! – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
The worst hole a leader can fall into is when he fails to recognize he’s the cause of the problem & blames others instead. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
I believe in the separation of church & hate. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Doers need to think more. Thinkers need to do more. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
PAIN can either be the most useful or most useless part of your life. It all depends on how much you trust God in it. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
Growing older only guarantees winkles,not wisdom.Many people live the same year over & over, never learning anything new. – Rick Warren via @twitjargon
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