Hummingbirds don't walk,their legs are too weak.
Hummingbirds don't walk,their legs are too weak.
Benjamin Franklin originally wanted the national symbol of the United States to be the turkey,not the bald eagle.
Alfred Nobel,for whom the Nobel Prize is named,was the inventor of dynamite.
The koala bear eats only eucalyptus tree leaves.
Some may be repeats:
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
The average housefly lives for one month.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman"
and "Tootsie".
Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
~Cindy
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Catherine Aird-
Lucille Ball was kicked out of drama school because she was to shy.
Got this site in an e-mail this morning. It' cute.
Diane
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/eye.htm
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Now that's what i call strange............that's great!:DDiane said:
Got this site in an e-mail this morning. It' cute.
Diane
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/eye.htm
Asbury Park,New Jersey,once had a fly-in movie where patrons would show up in their planes to watch the film.
A spoonerism.............the act of transposing letters at the beginning of words,is named for the former head of an Oxford college.
Madurodam,Netherlands is home to a complete miniature replica of the country of Holland.
Thomas Nast is credited with creating our modern image of Santa Claus. He also did the Democratic and Republican Party symbols.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro in his younger days was a quality baseball pitcher,and was once given a tryout by the Washington Senators team.
Sean said:
Rice paper is made from the pitch of a Taiwanese tree........not from rice.
Maybe a new material to clean glasses with.
You can go and try to find diamonds in the U.S. The Murfreesboro Diamond Mine in Arkansas is open to the public.
Author Rudyard Kipling was fired from his reporter job at the San Francisco Examiner because his boss thought of him as an amateur.
Leo, the MGM movie mascot,has a marked grave and is buried in Gillette, New Jersey.
I went to most of my elementary, junior high and high school in the state of Texas. Took Texas history. Learned all about , Travis, Milam, Santa Anna, Sam Houston, Deaf Smith, etc. Even the battles including that at San Jacinto (that's San Jah Sin Toe, reguardless of how those folks in California think it's pronounced).
No one ever mentioned, taught, or wrote in any of my education of The Yellow Rose of Texas. No one mentioned that the Texans sucess at the Battle of San Jacinto and theby Texas independence was due to General Santa Anna being distracted by young woman of dubvious morals and mixed ancestry in his tent during the battle.
Chip.
"........it was all started by a mouse." Walt Disney.
Mickey Mouse debuted in 1928's "Steam Boat Willie"
"Kiss Me" Are the only words that have ever been spoken by PLUTO.
"Disney Stars & Motor Cars" Parade features classic American cars from 1929 to 1951.
Mickey's Sorcerer Hat at the the Disney Studios is 122 ft tall.
DOPEY was the only dwarf without a beard.
DONALD DUCK'S middle name is " Fauntleroy."
At the end of the day in Cinderella's Section Doves were released, they flew around for a while then returned to the cages they were released from. After a while redwing hawks (a protected species) began to take stock of the situation and began hovering in wait prior to the release time for the doves. Disney eventually stopped releasing doves as they felt the slaughter was inhumane. No one in the audience ever complained.
Chip
Hhmm.........Never knew they had spectator sport's LOL! that's great Chip!:D :cheers: :D
The first female mayor of any U.S. town was Susanna Medora.Elected to the post in Argonia,Kansas,April 4th,1887.
The state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens' real first name is James.
Jesse is a nickname.
For the bird's:Dchip anderson said:
At the end of the day in Cinderella's Section Doves were released, they flew around for a while then returned to the cages they were released from. After a while redwing hawks (a protected species) began to take stock of the situation and began hovering in wait prior to the release time for the doves. Disney eventually stopped releasing doves as they felt the slaughter was inhumane. No one in the audience ever complained.
Chip
In the 1700's, it was estimated there as many as 3 billion passenger pigeons in the U.S. The species was extinct by 1914.
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