Fun Facts

email from a friend | 01/21/2018 | unknown

[sodpoodle]

Fact or fiction? Check them out! I'm busy;)

[sodpoodle]

July 16, 2014 ​NEW YORK – As stocks creep ever higher and spark bubble concerns, one other bubble appears to be popping: the gum market. The ongoing demise of Bubble Gummers???

[bagster]

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

False.

The letter J appears in the element JCC.

(commonly known as Jimmy crack corn.)

[Macoozie]

“The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.”

I know all about bananas and reproduction, learned that in school. But I thought playing with your banana with your hand would make you go blind!

[Tax-chick]

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

False. Since the 1980s, Alaska has had only two time zones.

[sodpoodle]

I see Sunday Sarcasm is up early this morning;) LOL!!

[CGASMIA68]

I had banana trees in my back yard that produced with no human intervention a

[Tax-chick]

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

Marriages were arranged between fathers and prospective husbands.

[bagster]

Sunday Sarcasm is up early this morning

Sunday sarcasm is up late.

I am the virus that never sleeps.

:)

[CGASMIA68]

Sarcasm ?How about juvenile’ism

[bagster]

Ooooo, sodpoodle.

I just read your homepage.

I know who you're talking about and I LOVE IT?

Yay you.

[sodpoodle]

Good catch TC ;)

Alaska is quite large longitudinally, and prior to 1983 the entire state did run across 4 time zones; however, the state is now on one main time zone, Alaska Time, with the exception of the Western, mostly uninhabited area of the Aleutian Islands, which follows Hawaii-Aleutian Time.

The University of Alaska has 3 campuses in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau. All of those campuses are on Alaska Time, which is one hour behind Pacific Time.
The adoption of one main time zone causes some anomalies in the western most parts of Alaska. For example, in the far west of the time zone, a clock will legally say that it is noon, but based on solar time it is really 9:42am (during daylight savings it would even be 8:42am).
Source: http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/Time/062912_alaska_time.html

[where's_the_Outrage?]

“Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.”

I don’t recall “e”, Pi, or “i” in Roman numerals.

[bagster]

How about juvenile’ism

Not sure that's a word, but I am very immature for my age.

This is known.

[bagster]

And another thing, buster.

Are you trying to say Jimmy crack corn ISN'T an element?

[sodpoodle]

****I don’t recall “e”, Pi, or “i” in Roman numerals.****

numerals = numbers
Should have typed 0 and not zero???????

[Tax-chick]

in the far west of the time zone, a clock will legally say that it is noon, but based on solar time it is really 9:42am

Fascinating!

[jjr153]

Pineapples and cashews also have their seeds or seed (cashews) on the outside. The fruit of the cashew is not eaten.

[EEGator]

I think they meant integers.

[Bringbackthedraft]

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man................................... Errrr? I planted 1 banana plant I now have 5. The plant reproduces itself via the root system.