INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Originally Posted by Jelster

Have they got hands ?

.

Erm, no I suppose not, but if they did they would be left handed.

Paws for thought!

The NASA 'Space Shuttle' IS actually defined as the orbiter, external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters complete together. And the orbiter is connected to the tank by one bolt only.

Originally Posted by Scoobs

A metre cubed (m x m x m) of water weights a metric ton*.

*varies slightly with temperature

Scoobs you got that off Scrap Heap Challenge 'scrappy races' didn't you

Originally Posted by Carl PO51 MYV

Scoobs you got that off Scrap Heap Challenge 'scrappy races' didn't you

I learned that at school. 1cc of water weighs 1g.

Originally Posted by tricky

I learned that at school. 1cc of water weighs 1g.

When I was ~10 I learned that a litre of air weighs 1.2gramms to the tune of "A Spoon Full of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down" and it seems to be stuck in my head ever since - possibly blocking much more useful information from getting in!

JG

[_Stretchie_]

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

quality fact



Can remember the monkey,lion,elephant n i think a parrot....gotta go buy meself a box now to find the rest of the buggers

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

I bought a box of animal crackers there. On the outside, it said, "DO NOT EAT IF SEAL IS BROKEN."

So, I opened the box up, and sure enough...




Now, where's my coat...

Originally Posted by philipMac

I bought a box of animal crackers there. On the outside, it said, "DO NOT EAT IF SEAL IS BROKEN."

So, I opened the box up, and sure enough...




Now, where's my coat...

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by philipMac

I bought a box of animal crackers there. On the outside, it said, "DO NOT EAT IF SEAL IS BROKEN."

So, I opened the box up, and sure enough...




Now, where's my coat...

There's no in animal crackers.. And there's no F in Kangaroo either (think about it)

[_Stretchie_]

Oh yeah, and for todays offering....


• The original game of "Monopoly" was circular
• It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World
• One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year
• Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words


Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe