AMAZING USELESS FACTS

Amanzi · #1 Postby **Amanzi** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:49 am

Almonds are not really nuts, but a member of the peach family.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

Polar bears are left-handed!

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. They kept the horses from walking up the stairs

An estimated 35 percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married!

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

A cockroach can live without its head, until it starves to death.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Butterflies taste with their feet

According to surveys, on average people fear spiders more than they fear death.

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

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars

ColdFront77 · #2 Postby **ColdFront77** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:11 pm

Wow... those are some interesting "Amazing Useless Facts"/"Little Known Facts." They are always fun to read/know about.

#3 Postby **bfez1** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:14 pm

like you said, amazing useless facts :lol:

but they are quite interesting.

JQ Public · #4 Postby **JQ Public** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:31 pm

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

lol i never knew that. weird?

breeze · #5 Postby **breeze** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:42 pm

OK, if I stop eating hamburgers now, I should be able to buy
a new car in 28.47 years........LoL! :lol:

weatherlover427 · #6 Postby **weatherlover427** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:15 pm

I guess I'm one of the 65% ... wait, I don't use personal ads. :o :lol:

Stormsfury · #7 Postby **Stormsfury** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:23 pm

*LOL* Joshua ...

I was one of the 65% that is not married with a personal ad...however, it didn't work ... *LOL* ... no surprise ... but the funniest thing is that I actually did meet someone from another message board in person and that weekend was the absolute best!

hurricanedude · #8 Postby **hurricanedude** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:11 pm

almond, in the peach family...hmmm I guess a cashew is in the plum family..HEHE
MIKE

#9 Postby **streetsoldier** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:21 pm

"Wendy" perhaps was invented for the "Peter Pan" books, but since then it has saved generations of "Gwendolyns" from having to enunciate that ungainly Welsh mouthful...

ColdFront77 · #10 Postby **ColdFront77** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:13 pm

"The Bible has been translated into Klingon." -- Klingon is even a language? :lol:

Amanzi · #11 Postby **Amanzi** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:15 pm

LOL Tom. I found that funny as well.

Bill, I also thought that the name Wendy was a derivative of Gwendolyn, I may be wrong though.

southerngale · #12 Postby **southerngale** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:22 pm

Interesting stuff Amanzi 8)

Btw...my sister's name is Wendy.

sunny shine · #13 Postby **sunny shine** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:35 pm

Ewwww the cockroach with no head gives me the heebie jeebies. :o :lol:

Amanzi · #14 Postby **Amanzi** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:46 am

I know Laurie, I cant stand roaches. I heard somewhere if you spray them with bug spray they lay eggs and you get more roaches... YUCK.

WidreMann · #15 Postby **WidreMann** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 9:57 pm

"The Bible has been translated into Klingon." -- Klingon is even a language?

For some reason, it is. What I don't know is why somebody hasn't translated it into Quenya, which is such a nicer sounding made-up language.

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