Did you know????????

That was posted by myself back in March of this year, under the title "bad timing", but still an amazing bit of trivia.

http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-today/30626-speaking-bad-timing.html

always wondered what he said to his wife in Nagasaki, that one put on near the end was cute though. "Told you so"!

 

Here is one more bit of trivia, there is one Royal Palace in the US of A, and it is in our last state admitted to the union.

In 1893, American businessmen overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy and ousted the King and Queen, not only from their positions, but also from the beautiful Honolulu Iolani palace that they had been built in 1882.

King Kalakaua was a modern man, not only having electricity installed four years before the American White House had the same, but he also had indoor flush toilets, and telephones. The telephones were really only intercoms, since they only existed in the palace.

 

That Irish people (like me) burn like a crisp in the sun!

 

Did you know that it is impossible to lick your elbow

 

You also cannot put it in your ear, which is why doctors tell you to never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow.

 

Ah month before i joined, but yea really interesting stuff!

 

Actually I know a girl who can lick her elbow and I've seen her do it, which is odd.

Another interesting fact, according to Albert Axel's book 'Russia's Heroes' only one man has ever been recorded as surviving a German gas chamber in WW2. In 1941 he was rounded up in a village and put in the back of one of the mobile truck-based gas chambers, as it drove it pumped carbon monoxide into the back. The chap had worked in a soviet chemical factory and realised what was happening, he held his breath and urinated onto a rag he had in his pocket, holding this over his face he watched as those around him succombed and when the vehicle stopped he hid in the pile of bodies, which were thrown off the vehicle and left in a pile in a wood whilst the truck and crew went to get more people, he snuck away. he survived the war but hardly ever spoke again.

I'll get hold of my copy of the book next week and confirm the chaps name but it is an incredible story.

 

did you know... that 90% of the people who read my post tried to lick their elbow

 

I just tried... of course, it didn't work

More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.

 

When this report was published in 2003, they were using data compiled up till 2001.

The total number of iatrogenic deaths [death induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures], is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate is 553,251.

Goto:

The leading cause of death and injury in the United States

This is a bit troubling for myself, as I am (as of now) a cancer survivor. I went ten years without recurrence, and then in the tenth month of my eleventh year, the dang thing showed up again. Since 2007 I’ve been getting "clean" check-ups every time. I guess people just don’t think about the vast number of persons who do die off while being treated in our hospitals. I wonder if the stats have leveled off in the past six years, increased, or decreased?

This was an email joke sent to myself in 2007, and when I looked it up the numbers weren’t that far off!

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.

(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.

(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

* Statistics courtesy of U.S.
Dept of Health Human Services.

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Now think about this:

Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(Yes, that's 80 million)

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(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

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(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.000188.

* Statistics courtesy of FBI

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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners when it comes to causing death accidentally.

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Remember; Gun owners don't kill people, doctors do.

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FACT:

NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.

We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand !

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Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.

 

2680 BC - Great Pyramid at Giza completed! One of the original Wonders of the world still in tact. Amazing

 

Here are some interesting things.



THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a 'tittle'.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of Mc Donald 's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily. (Just as I suspected))

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small-sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (The Little Perv.)

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16.. Upper and lower-case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time, hence, multi-tasking was invented.

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23.. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with a stick wider than your thumb.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. "Guinness Book of Records" holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it. I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS. (Same thing should apply when going to movie theaters.)

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her off to jail."

 

Did yuo knowe...................that before America join ww2,that most 0f Americaes population actually wanted America to jion Nazi germany,cause they thuoght that Nazi germany wase going to win ww2.
i thinke it was thee America;s prisident that wase thee only one that wanted to fight for thee allies!
I learnt this frome another member frome another forum,i wase so shocked! But howe true ist this???

 

Maybe not in the dictionary but Blorenge and Corenge rhyme with orange:

Blorenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

That's insanity!

 

It sort of makes sense, when you consider that the USSR was seen both before and after the war as the 'real' enemy.

 

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

 

Did you know that 48% of statistics are made up on the spot!

 

Did you know that in a London church a mummified body of a man was found in a closet which had not been opened for over 120 years?