Interesting facts

[gekkogecko]

Some of them might actually be true. Well, some one has to make them up, even if they're not.

#1:
Ground beef comes from subterranean cows.

[dicksbro]

#2
Except for physical and mental issues ... the older you get the younger you feel.

[gekkogecko]

#3 The longer and harder you bash your head against the brick wall, the more chance you'll have of breaking through.

[dicksbro]

#4 Climbing the ladder of success goes easy ... if you've got a good ladder with no broken rungs and they're not slippery from the rains or snows of life.

[jseal]

#5 Smoke detectors warn you about two things: a) Fire Hazard & b) Your abilities in the kitchen.

[dicksbro]

#6 Income taxes are not a problem if your income is low enough.

[jseal]

#7 “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists.

[dicksbro]

#8 Congress is debating a new law that all homeowners will have to post a new sign on each of their rest rooms that contains baths or showers: "Nude bathers may be encountered beyond this point," so as not to offend anyone who tries to enter.

[jseal]

#39 Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are all banned in PRP.

[gekkogecko]

#10: Performing a self-appendectomy is a great way to save money and loose weight.

[dicksbro]

#11: A new law determined that STOP signs are advisory and not to be enforced.

[gekkogecko]

#12 Bottled water is safe to use directly as an enema.

[dicksbro]

#13 We have a congress considering redefining a year to consist of 365 1-day months so that every day can be both a New Year's Eve and a New Years Day. They're only have trouble coming up with enough good names for each month. :shrug:

[jseal]

#14 Before ice hockey games, the pucks are frozen to prevent them from bouncing during play.

[dicksbro]

#15 Baseball first started as a contest between two brothers ... one would make a fly take off and the other tried to hit it with a swatter. After three swatting attempts, they switched.

[jseal]

#16 The Peterbald cat breed has webbed feet.

[dicksbro]

#17 Driving a semi is a lot like driving a Morris Mini except you sit up higher and have a louder horn.

[gekkogecko]

#18 The fact that the words "Yurt" and "Yog(h)urt" come from the same culture indicates that the Mongols are fond of the syllable "urt".

[dicksbro]

#19 The need to mow your lawn every week or so in the spring is often due to the fact we seldom raise sheep anymore.

[gekkogecko]

#20: Today's featured aircraft by Dicksbro, the Packard/Le Pere, never actually served in World War One. It was often referred to by the acronym LUSAC ((L)ePere (U)nited (S)tates (A)rmy (C)ombat). It was originally intended to be a two-seat fighter, but the US couldn't actually carry out the grand plans it had to build flocks of combat aircraft, train the aircrew, and station them in France before the end of the war. The "11" is the model number, and is the Arabic eleven, not the Roman numeral two.

[dicksbro]

Thank you for your historical insight, gekkogecko. I can see you are quite an authority on WWI aircraft which I am not. My congratulations! :thumbs:

#21: Yesterday after a very cold week, we hit 50 degrees yesterday. Felt like spring had arrived. Today is suppose to take us back to reality. Weather is wonderful whether it's hot or cold. :)

[jseal]

#22: Compared to a cigarette, a hookah session delivers about 25 times the tar, 2.5 times the nicotine, and 10 times the carbon monoxide.

[dicksbro]

#23: Cars are like charities ... you can never spend enough on them to quench their thirst for more.

[gekkogecko]

#24 You will get more stuff in your chirstmas stocking if, when hanging it, you do so by the neck until it's dead.

[dicksbro]

#25 Because of concern over football violence; I understand the Superbowl this year will be replaced by Gilligan's Island re-runs.

[jseal]

#26 Tulips on an organ are better than flowers on a piano.

[dicksbro]

#27 Just think ... a year from now we'll get a chance to help raise money for the next elections after this years. :(

[jseal]

#28 Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia.

[dicksbro]

#29 Cheaper gas in large part depends on the price of beans.

[gekkogecko]

#30 The best way to rid yourself of fire ants is to slather yourself in honey, and lay facedown in their nests.

[dicksbro]

#31 The best way to get a car started is to turn the key.

[jseal]

#32 3.Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.

[gekkogecko]

#33 There's a new study claiming that dinosaurs were in major decline befor the final extinction at the K-Pg boundary: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/04/13/1521478113.abstract?sid=9aabf605-12a8-4c83-b2c4-977b2d1d2e26
However, there are still some problems with it, so it may or may not be accurate.

[dicksbro]

#34 Flying is throwing yourself at the earth ... and missing. :shrug:

[gekkogecko]

#35 The best way to make a slow-running computer run faster is to spoon ice cream onto the hard drive.

[mercifulangel]

#36 Lizards are awesome

[dicksbro]

#37 For sky divers, jumping without parachutes gets you to the ground faster.

[gekkogecko]

#38 If you use sheep instead of a lwan mower, your lawn gets both mown and fertilized.

[dicksbro]

It's easier to plant a bush than to take it out when it gets too big. :(

[jseal]

#40. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

[dicksbro]

#41 San Francisco is a bastion of conservative principles.

[jseal]

#42. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.

[dicksbro]

#43 Ants are very intelligent. They've even developed their own "Baseball" song.

"Stake me out on the anthill.
Stake me out in the sun!
Smear me with honey and leave me there.
Twon't be long til my bones are stripped bare,
For chomp, chomp, chomp little ants do,
Till they've eaten their fill,
And there's one, two, three million ants on the ol' ant hill!"

[jseal]

#44. Darwin who was a failed doctor originally planned to write a book titled "The Origin of Sepsis" to make up for his medical school failures.

[gekkogecko]

#45 The best way to drink coffee or tea is to boil a swimming-pool-sized vat, and dive in while it's still boiling.

[dicksbro]

#46 People planning to fly to a vacation destination should first check to see if planes fly there. :yikes:

[gekkogecko]

#47 Root beer taste best when it contains actual roots.

[dicksbro]

#48 The age old question is whether one can deep sea fish in shallow waters. :confused:

[jseal]

#49 It would be a paradox for Pinocchio to say “My nose will grow now.”

[dicksbro]

#50 Everyone is right as long as everyone agrees with them. :spin:

[jseal]

#51 Bikinis and tampons were invented by men.

[dicksbro]

#52 Flat tires are usually only flat on the bottom. :shrug:

[gekkogecko]

#53 Cellular phones contain no actual cellulose.

[dicksbro]

#54 Air bags are not made of air, either.

[gekkogecko]

#55 Today is the 72nd Anniversary of "The" D-Day, the beginning of the Allied liberation of Western Europe in World War 2.

[dicksbro]

#56 Mowing on sunny days is far preferable to mowing when it's raining. :boink:

[jseal]

#57 The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

[dicksbro]

#58 It's a little-known law that we must always spend more than we have at a cost of at least twice whatever we wanted was worth.

[jseal]

#59 You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath .

[dicksbro]

#60 Tickets are being sold for the first commercial space trip to Planet IX.

[gekkogecko]

#61 I'm the one selling them.

[jseal]

#62 Here in the U.S., a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

[dicksbro]

#63 The blue whale is the largest creature to have ever lived!

[jseal]

#64 The Spanish translation of the toothpaste "Colgate (http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/217451/colgate-translation)" is "go hang yourself".

[gekkogecko]

#65 Pierre Charles L'Enfant designed the traffic circles in D.C. not only with an eye towards connecting the diagonal avenues with the rectangular grid of the streets, but also with an eye towards allowing artillery to easily face any direction, should it be necessary to defend the city.

[dicksbro]

#66 It seems unlikely that real aliens actually starred in the new Independence Day movie.

[gekkogecko]

#67 The ID movies were actually produced by Aliens, to put us off our guard about how easily they are defeated.

[dicksbro]

#68 Carbon monoxide doesn't hurt people who don't breath it on a regular basis.

[gekkogecko]

#69 I don't get nearly enough 69 in my life.

[dicksbro]

#70 70 ... hmmm ... looks younger every year. :)

[jseal]

October 24, 1944 saw the organized introduction of the Kamikaze (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze)

[dicksbro]

#72 ... The new terrorist often adopt Kamikaze methods of destroying themselves.