"Did you know?" Random TidBits and Facts!

[Missileer]

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 

[Spartacus]

The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.

 

[Missileer]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
(DON'T try this @ home!)

 

[Spartacus]

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.

 

[Missileer]

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
a watch is 10:10.

 

[Spartacus]

Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.

 

[Missileer]

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

 

[ghost457]

the circular saw was invented by a woman who was related to a member of the Shaker community in colonial America.

 

[tomtom22]

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

 

[Charge 7]

The first inter-racial kiss seen on television was on the original Star Trek series in 1967. Captain Kirk was "forced" by aliens to kiss Lieutenant Uhura (yeah, right - "forced" :whip: )

 

[Bory]

Live splet Backwards is Evil :twisted:

 

[bulldogg]

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

And 700 of them are in Kansas.

 

[Missileer]

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 

[tomtom22]

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

 

[ironhorseredleg]

In September of 1914, Erwin Rommel was wounded in the leg when he charged three Frenchmen with a bayonet because he'd run out of ammunition.

 

[tomtom22]

World Tourist day is observed on September 27.

 

[Italian Guy]

Since 1945 Italy has had an average of one government every 9 months.

 

[bulldogg]

Fried silkworm moths taste like overcooked bacon.

 

[ironhorseredleg]

The last bayonet charge by an Australian military unit took place in during the Vietnam conflict.

 

[tomtom22]

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."