Totally Useless Facts Part 3
05-18-2002, 12:00 PM
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Totally Useless Facts Part 3
Totally Useless Facts Part 3
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.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the
great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would 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.
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."
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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 ôthö sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use 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 "yö.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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.
The actual Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) pronounced "Seuss" so that it rhymed with "rejoice."
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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 received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the
great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would 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.
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."
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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 ôthö sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use 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 "yö.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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.
The actual Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) pronounced "Seuss" so that it rhymed with "rejoice."
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
