Did you know

[Gravitas]

Did you know a baby Llama is called a Cria (CREE-uh)?

Did you also know that I am bored and I have a Fact a day caledar in front of me?
:Nsmilie:

[holodoc2000]

LOL! You would start such a thread as this. :P:

[Gravitas]

Yes, yes I would (Do you know me from another board?).

Did you know that the smell of Crayola crayons is so soothing that sniffing them has proven to lower blood pressure?

[holodoc2000]

LOL! I just know ya from around here Gravitas. ;) Just where are you getting all of this knowledge from other than your calender?

[Gravitas]

My head, it's full of useless information, just ask "Excalibur."


Did you know Ohio's State Fossil is the Trilobite (Ancient Horseshoe Crab looking thing)?

[holodoc2000]

My head, it's full of useless information, just ask "Excalibur."


Did you know Ohio's State Fossil is the Trilobite (Ancient Horseshoe Crab looking thing)?

LOL! It is huh. I'm sure it would come in real handy for when you get to appear on Jepordy. :D

[thomas7g]

I know the perfect website for ya, http://dumblaws.com!

:D

Like for the longest time it was illegal to fire a missile within California, but not to OWN one.

Women may not drive in a house coat.


:)

[holodoc2000]

:eek: Alright tomas7g! get your tushie over to the last person thread. Your LONG over due for an appearance there. :P:

[thomas7g]

oh i can! But its not ME. THose are real LAWS that are officially in the California Statutes!

For instance in your state Musical instruments may not be sold on Sunday.

:D

[holodoc2000]

Lmao!

[Senmut]

Did you know that between 1347 and 1351, the Black Death killed about half the population of Europe?

[Excalibur]

Did you know...

In New Mexico. State officials ordered 400 words of "sexually explicit material" to be cut from Romeo and Juliet. :blink:

That in the state of Indiana, A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17! :wtf:

In Oklahoma, Molesting an automobile is illegal. :wtf: :LOL:

And... In Ohio, It is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday. :yikes:

Now. I have lived in Ohio all my life. The only whales I have ever seen here, were at Sea World. I'm pretty sure they weren't allowed to be hunted, whatever the day of the week!

[thomas7g]

Did you know...
And... In Ohio, It is illegal to fish for whales on Sunday. :yikes:

Now. I have lived in Ohio all my life. The only whales I have ever seen here, were at Sea World. I'm pretty sure they weren't allowed to be hunted, whatever the day of the week!

Well... if you want to get technical... I think its illegal to trespass and hunt on private property such as on SeaWorld's land. But its nice to know...if the whales ever got free and escaped off Sea World, on a Sunday, then they would be safe.

:)

[Darth Marley]

Worthless Word of the Day:

http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/

[Gravitas]

I did know about the Dumb Laws site, it was one of the first sites I went to when I got the Internet.
I did not know about the Worthlees Word of the Day site.

Did you know that the reason phones (Land Lines) don't go out when the power does is because between your house and the phone company's office there is a dedicated pair of copper wires for your phone. Those wires are almost always buried, so ice storms and hurricanes will not cut them. The phone company supplies the power that your phone needs using your dedicated copper pair.

So even if the power goes out in your house, the phone still gets the power it needs through the phone line. And at the phone company office there is an extensive battery system, as well as a backup generator, to supply power during a power failure. If the power goes out, the batteries and generators keep the office fully powered. Therefore, all of the phones connected to the office are fully powered as well.

HowStuffWorks.Com (http://www.howstuffworks.com/)

[Senmut]

Did you know that the U.S. Government still regulates the production and export of helium, and has since the early 20th Century. The reason? We must keep this vtal war material out of the hands of the Kaiser.

[Darth Marley]

Did you know that the U.S. Government still regulates the production and export of helium, and has since the early 20th Century. The reason? We must keep this vtal war material out of the hands of the Kaiser.

There are tons of outdated export prohibitions.

Still, other countries have even stranger export regulations, often involving labelling.

Certain middle eastern countries argue about whether the Persian Gulf should be called the Arabian Sea, and if your crate has the wrong wording on it, off to the landfill it goes.

[holodoc2000]

I did know about the Dumb Laws site, it was one of the first sites I went to when I got the Internet.
I did not know about the Worthlees Word of the Day site.

Did you know that the reason phones (Land Lines) don't go out when the power does is because between your house and the phone company's office there is a dedicated pair of copper wires for your phone. Those wires are almost always buried, so ice storms and hurricanes will not cut them. The phone company supplies the power that your phone needs using your dedicated copper pair.

So even if the power goes out in your house, the phone still gets the power it needs through the phone line. And at the phone company office there is an extensive battery system, as well as a backup generator, to supply power during a power failure. If the power goes out, the batteries and generators keep the office fully powered. Therefore, all of the phones connected to the office are fully powered as well.

HowStuffWorks.Com (http://www.howstuffworks.com/)


:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[unowhoandwhy]

Did you know that the U.S. Government still regulates the production and export of helium, and has since the early 20th Century. The reason? We must keep this vtal war material out of the hands of the Kaiser.


I knew someone who worked for that storage facility, but he couldn't tell me exactly what he did because it was Top Secret... :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :D

[unowhoandwhy]

We have a list of laws published in the town I work in dating from 1900 that I don't think have ever been repealed, such as:


"14. No person shall exhibit or lead a bear in or upon any public highway."

[holodoc2000]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[Darth Marley]

9.81 meters per second squared.
It's not just a good idea, it's the LAW!

[Archangel]

I always thought that Delta V was a recommendation. :D

[Darth Marley]

Actually, it varies by altitude.

[Archangel]

Air pressure, that sort of thing?

[Rowan]

That Archangel has exceeded his PM limit!! :LOL: ;)

[holodoc2000]

tee hee! :D Figured he hadn't cleared out some of the older messages.

[Archangel]

It's fixed now, ladies. :D

[Flamingo Girl]

Here is my contribution to this thread.

http://thefifthdistrict.com/potter/

[Gravitas]

War is less dangerous than ducks.
During the First World War, ducks killed more people than bullets, bombs, mines and tanks combined. Ducks have weak immune systems and carry viruses that can infect humans. They were responsible for the outbreak of Spanish flu that killed 25 million people in 1918, more than died from military causes in the whole of WWI.

The world has four moons. The second one is named after the Picts.
You will be familiar with the large one that appears nightly and which (uncannily) appears to be exactly the same size as the sun. But there are three others. These objects are known as 'near-Earth asteroids' and are locked into a complicated orbital relationship with the world. The best known is Cruithne, which is three miles across and takes 770 years to complete its cycle. It is named after the first Celts to settle in Britain between 800 and 500BC, more commonly known as the Picts. Cruithne, also known as Asteroid 3753 was first seen in 1986, but its peculiar relationship to the earth was not identified until 1997. Recently, two more earth 'moons' have been found- asteroids 1998 UP1 and 2000 PH5. They don't have names yet

Toilets were responsible for injuring 43,687 Americans in 1996. This is twenty times the number of people who have been attacked by sharks since records began in 1580.
The toilet statistic is courtesy of the 1997 figures of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission based in Washington, DC, U.S.A. Only about 2,200 attacks by sharks on humans have been recorded in the last 423 years.

London taxi-drivers are legally permitted to urinate in public provided the act is formally witnessed by a member of the police.

English has over half a million words as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary. 313 of these words involve different ways to describe mud.