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To: beachn4fun; tomkow6; Old Sarge; armyboy
-Interesting But Useless Information


The U.S. makes enough plastic film annually to shrink-wrap Texas.

A rat shows displeasure with another rat by biting its butt.

Arnold Schwarzenegger owns seven Hummers.

Your computer keyboard is dirtier than a toilet.

In America now, there are more dogs per household than children.

Tony Blair once spent the night sleeping on a park bench in London.

Americans receive an average of eight birthday cards each year.

The longest movie ever made is "The Cure for Insomnia," which clocks in at 87 hours.

When two NHL players collide, their pads and bodies can absorb enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for a minute and a half.

Like fingerprints, every tongue print is unique.

62.7 percent of all e-mail sent in December, worldwide, was spam.

Americans stand about 14 inches apart when they converse. Russians, about 10 inches.

Pool shark Minnesota Fats was once hospitalized for "cue-tip-chalk lung."

500 pairs of fake sideburns were used in the making of "Gone With the Wind."

Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife by Morse code.

The average public swimming pool contains more urine than chlorine.

The Statue of Liberty's waist size is 35 feet.

Thomas Jefferson liked to greet foreign ambassadors in his pajamas.

The dog on the Cracker Jack box is named Bingo.

229 posted on 03/24/2004 9:29:00 AM PST by StarCMC (God bless the 969th in Iraq and their Captain, my brother...God bless them all!)
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To: StarCMC; darkwing104
Arnold Schwarzenegger owns seven Hummers.

My Guard unit doesn't even own seven Hummers!

The Statue of Liberty's waist size is 35 feet.

Darkwing and I don't feel so bad, now...

The average public swimming pool contains more urine than chlorine.

EEeeewwwww!!

234 posted on 03/24/2004 9:32:49 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: StarCMC
When two NHL players collide, their pads and bodies can absorb enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for a minute and a half.

I guess that explains why my old bones ache in the morning.
255 posted on 03/24/2004 9:43:21 AM PST by USVet6792Retired (An Armed Society is a Polite Society)
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To: StarCMC
The U.S. makes enough plastic film annually to shrink-wrap Texas.

Well, we'd better warn our FRiends in Texas to beware, huh?

A rat shows displeasure with another rat by biting its butt.

Is this where we get the saying, "bit my butt?"

The average public swimming pool contains more urine than chlorine.

UGH! I am glad I don't swim in public pools!

267 posted on 03/24/2004 10:00:47 AM PST by beachn4fun (Who out there doesn’t think the Iraqi people deserve Freedom? Raise your hand.)
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