Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Some wacky things to think about...

Why is the word abbreviation so long?
When companies ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why are there interstates in Hawaii?
Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited?

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
In Hawaii, it is illegal to put pennies in your ear
In Kentucky, it is illegal to ask a girl in a bikini on a date!
In Kansas, it is illegal to catch fish with your bare hands!
In Santa Ana, California, it is illegal to swim on dry land!
There is a city called Rome in every continent.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location that sells hot dogs.
One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.

Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
There are more chickens in the world than people.

There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia.
The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour.It was set in a lunar rover.
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body it could squirt blood 30 feet!
In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow

3 comments:

tatum said...

lol! that is so funny! your blog is getting even better! u go girl!

Tiffany said...

i love those but how can u swim on dry land?(it was towards the biginning of the list)

Tiffany said...

where did u get that stuff i want to put some other stuff like that on my blog