Did You Know?

Diamonds, heated to 763oC, will vanish. Some CO2 will be relased into the air, but no ash will remain.

Starfish have no brains.

Crocodiles can’t stick their tongues out.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

You can’t kill yourself holding your breath.

It is not possible to lick your elbow.

Michelangelo took 17 months to sculpt his statue of David.

Desexing a cat will increase its life span by several years.

No two spiderwebs are the same.

Only the fully grown male cricket can chirp.

The largest frog is the Goliath frog, and is the size of a baby deer!

There are over 200 000 000 species of insects. Which puts Mammal inhabitants on the Planet earth at a mere .03%.

Triskaidekaphobia [tris-kahy-dek-uh-foh-bee-uh], is an irrational fear of the number 13.

Vincent van Gogh, the world’s most valued painter, sold only one painting while alive – to his brother who owned an art gallery. The painting is titled “Red Vineyard at Arles.”

Ernest Vincent Wright’s 1939 novel Gadsby has 50,110 words, none of which contains the letter “e.”
“If youth, throughout all history, had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adults act, and figuring out its purport.”
– Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright. Published 1939

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

A whale’s penis is called adork. (excuse me while a giggle like a little girl… eeehehehehehe. If it wasn’t so gross it would be cute.)

Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz?

…. Yeah, i’m bored. Its the last day before a extra long, long weekend. I’m wasting time.

CIAO!

Song for the day: Taylor Swift – Love Story

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April 8, 2009

I always wondered why people call me “a dork”. Now I know. Wil

April 8, 2009

Lol! Ralph Lifshitz… Guess he REALLY didn’t want people knowing he was Jewish. And I saw that fact about not being able to lick your elbow on a gas station marquee once… I’m not sure why… but everyone in the car decided to try it and realized it’s true– you can’t!

April 8, 2009

thats weird my sister can lick her elbow

April 8, 2009

RYN – James, James, James… that would do about as much for me as a busty blonde bombshell would for you. 😀

April 8, 2009

wow. colour me educated!

April 8, 2009

Have a great weekend.

April 8, 2009

🙂 – – – –

April 8, 2009

wow interesting! Although I have one friend who can actually lick his elbow – he showed me, freak lol

April 9, 2009

Pretty interesting stuff. <3

April 9, 2009

lol wow that’s interesting

April 10, 2009

that’s some pretty cool info. So put a butterfly on your tongue and you’ll be tasting eachother. hmmm.

April 13, 2009

umm okay the frog is freaky.