the left rear tire on a race car at Daytona travels 21.75 more feet than the others. i love knowing stuff like this.

[kimmydawn]

OMG, what a wonderful thread! i LOVE this stuff! oh, i hope this goes far!

"ring around the posey" was actually a song written about death during a plague and children today sing it as a joyful play song. "ring around the rosey" the distinctive mark for this plague, "pocket full of posey" was a tradition done going to the burials. "ashews, ashews" the massive sneezing and URI syptoms going with it. "we all fall down".

i was astonished when i heard that.

kd

[nothemama8]

London Bridge is Falling Down was about the the fire and crumbling of the bridge where many families had home on the bridge
Angie

[kimmydawn]

i know, angie! isn't it wild that alot of the old "nursery rhymes" are well, sad?

kd

wrong track........Indianapolis....sorry. i love this stuff.........

[kimmydawn]

i do too, pat! come on, ppl! get those heads thinking. tell us something we don't know

kd

[(JD)]

My T calls the phenomena a "junkyard brain." LOL

The two pink creatures that sang with Mahna Mahna are called Snowths.

when an average size mare is giving birth, she is exerting 2500 lbs of pressure per square inch with her pushing. that's why most colt births are achieved so quickly.

Four or five medium size oysters supply the recommended daily allowance of iron, copper, iodine, magnesium, calcium, zinc, manganese and phosphorus.

[kimmydawn]

pat, both of those facts are amazing...especially about the mare giving birth. wow

thank you.

kd

[(JD)]

kewl. eating spinach, peanuts and drinking black tea can make you anemic. Look out Popeye!

[kimmydawn]

really, sky? it's no wonder i've NEVER been anemic then

kd

[Raynaadi]

The birth of a male child is actually quite miraculous. Many very early conceptions of males are lost before they ever begin because the female body actually views it as an invasion of the body and fights it off. So be extra greatful for your sons!

[nothemama8]

Each king in a deck of cards represent a great King
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemange
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

[nothemama8]

Pearls melt in vinegar

[nothemama8]

Anyone no the name of the airplane that Buddy Holly died in?

[(JD)]

The aircraft was a chartered Beechcraft Bonanza. Did you follow his music?

[LMo]

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

[(JD)]

I knew pearls diminished from anything practically... but hadn't realized vinegar was quicker. (Learned with my first peals not to use a cleanser, etc. wipe them off when done wearing them. Ah, I love to put on a pearl necklace when it's all stiff and then realize as it warms up to the body and lays along with curves of the neck...)

[nothemama8]

Buddy Holly's plane was called the "American Pie" (thus the name of Don McLeans song American Pie
I didn't but my hubby did, I'm abit younger
Angie

[LMo]

Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

[LMo]

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

[nothemama8]

The sentence :
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
uses every letter in the alphabet

[LMo]

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

[(JD)]

Hmmm maybe that was his personal plane? The plane that crashed was a charter, with a hired pilot for the trip.

just found this, sorry. </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
American Pie is supposed to be the name of the plane that crashed, containing the three guys that died. This is not true.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> American Pie - annotations

But you bring up another good topic for thread: urban myths!

These threads really need to be in the ...Other Fun Things Forum, don't you think?