Anybody Planning On Living to 116? (Some Interesting Stuff I'll Bet You Don't Know)

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Some Neat Trivia
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1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by
ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the
bed firmer to sleep on. that's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep
tight" came from.

2. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test
telex/twx communications)

3. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.

4. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.

5. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

6. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
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."

7. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.

8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

9. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

10. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.

11. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

12. Nineteen out of 20 ain't bad. :eek:

13. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."

14. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

15. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting
license.

16. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a
year's supply of footballs.

17. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.

18. There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

19. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

20. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order.


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<< 12. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has
ever won a Super Bowl.
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Your info is old. :) Rams.
 

Jzero

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<< 6. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
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."
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Actually, the origin of this phrase is hotly debated and as yet unknown. This is a common explanation, along with things like:
--A Scotsman's kilt is always made of 9 yards of wool, pleated to the appropriate waist size.
--It implies falling short of the 10th yard...a failure.
--It has something to do with "Dressing up to the nines," of course the origin of THAT phrase is also no certain.
--Fabric comes in 9-yard bolts (it doesn't usually).
--Old cement trucks had 9 cubic yard tumblers (also not true)
--Wedding veils always had 9 yards of fabric

And a plethora of others.
Sorry :)
 

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Some More Stuff that caught my fancy ;)

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 as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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 "Village".

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 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.


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