[ManOfSteal]

Fact: Every day more money is printed for "Monopoly" than the US Treasury.

[ManOfSteal]

Fact: In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.

[budster101]

Some facts:

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

• Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
  What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
  "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
  "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
  In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
  A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
  Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
  You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
  There is a city called Rome on every continent.
  It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
  Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
  Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
  The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
  Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
  Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
  The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
  One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
  Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
  The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
  Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
  Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
  The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
  Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
  Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
  Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
  On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
  More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
  The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
  More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
  Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
  The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
  The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
  Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
  It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
  You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
  Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
  Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
  The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
  The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
  Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
  Slugs have 4 noses.
  Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
  A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
  The average person laughs 10 times a day!
  An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

[FulcrumPilot]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is so adamant his children do their laundry, he'll reportedly set fire to any of their dirty clothes left lying around. - Sydney Morning Herald, 4/13/05

[FulcrumPilot]

At least 12 Iraqi barbers have been executed by Islamic militant gangs in recent times. The barbers have been targeted because they provide Western-style haircuts. - Seattle Times, 2/23/05

[budster101]

"It is in fact legal to have a dog as a pet in Iceland"...

But, at one time an epidemic almost wiped out the entire dog population in Iceland.

[budster101]

"I'm not fooling around"....

-Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[FulcrumPilot]

Approximately 240,000 manhole and street drain covers were stolen in Beijing, China in 2004. - CNN, 3/15/05

[ghporter]

Jimmy Stewart, the actor, retired from the Air Force Reserve as a Brigadier General. Look here for more.

[FulcrumPilot]

A bald eagle crashed through a bay window of a Ketchikan, Alaska home, deposited a giant salmon on the living room floor, and then flew out again. - Associated Press, 6/15/05

[budster101]

Elvis got a "C" in his 8th grade music class.
Seaweed is used to thicken icecream.
The average French Citizen eats 500 snails per year.
There are more nutrients in the Corn Flakes package than the corn flakes themselves.
Every hour 1 billion cells in the body must be replaced.

[FulcrumPilot]

According to a recent study, birds prefer their droppings to be on white cars. - WFMY News 2, 6/29/05

[budster101]

It is illegal for tourists to enter Mexico with more than 2 CDs.
George Washington grew Marijuana in his garden.
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed... actually I think Catfish too...

[FulcrumPilot]

A golden-bellied mangabey monkey escaped from the San Diego Zoo, but was discovered less than an hour later - waiting outside a door to get back in. - Zoo-Talk.com, 6/26/05

[budster101]

Can you blame him? It's a jungle out there.

At any one time .7 percent of the world's population is drunk.

Cheers!


Women who read Romanc Novels have twice as much sex as those who don't...
Guess who is going to go buy some tomorrow!!!

[FulcrumPilot]

If human beings completely stopped burning fossil fuels today, the planet would continue to heat up for at least another 100 years. - NASA, 2/17/02

[budster101]

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air.

[FulcrumPilot]

On January 15, 1919, a 2,500,000 gallon tank filled with molasses burst in Boston. The 15 foot wall of molasses traveled through Boston at 35 mph, smothering 21 people and injuring 150.

[rjenkinson]

take any two numbers: A% of B = B% of A

-r.

[Don Pickett]

New Yorkers drink more coffee, per capita, than residents of any other city in the U.S.

[KeyLimePi]

Harry Houdini was the first man on record to pilot an airplane in Austraila.

[lavar78]

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The longest (i.e., has the most letters) one-syllable word in english is "strengths."

[budster101]

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

The longest (non-scientific / medical) word in the English Language.

[AKcrab]

Originally Posted by FulcrumPilot

A bald eagle crashed through a bay window of a Ketchikan, Alaska home, deposited a giant salmon on the living room floor, and then flew out again. - Associated Press, 6/15/05

I bet you $50 they ate the salmon.

[JustAnOl'Broad]

Originally Posted by FulcrumPilot

According to a recent study, birds prefer their droppings to be on white cars. - WFMY News 2, 6/29/05

Sadly, I'll vouch for this one.

[philm]

Llamas are bigger than frogs.

[Oisín]

None of CreepingDeth's facts in this thread make sense.

[Athens]

Canadian Facts and Inventors

Canada covers 9,984,670 square kilometres, or 7 percent, of the earth's surface.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Canada was -63 degrees Celsius

The governor general is paid $97,375 per year, tax free, plus an annual budget of $10 million.

People working to separate Quebec from Canada can not be charged with treason unless they use force or violence.

6,502,865 Canadians speak French as their first language.

Canadian groundhogs are right 30% of the time.

It is illegal to practice voodoo in Canada.

The warmest temperature ever recorded in Canada was 45 degrees Celsius.

Yonge Street in Toronto is the longest street in the World.

The geographic centre of Canada is 60 degrees 6 minutes 30 seconds latitude North and 94 degrees 3 minutes 30 seconds longitude West.

The letter "Z" comes from the Greek letter zeta and should be pronounced "zed" not "zee" (Americans pronounce it "zee" to make the alphabet song rhyme).

Almost 400,000 Canadians have dual citizenship.

More than 6.2 million Canadians go to church or other places of worship weekly.

Canada has six time zones.

Ottawa is the second coldest capital in the world (the first is Ulaanbatar, Mongolia).

Lake Ontario is the size of Switzerland.

Newfoundland is the only province that does not have an Indian reserve.

The Canadian coastline, 243,792 km, is the longest in the world.

90% of Canadians live within 160km of the United States border.

The word Canuck originated in about 1850 as a term for French Canadians. During the

Great War it was applied to all Canadians.

The Confederation Bridge between Prince Edward Island and the mainland is the longest in the world.

40% of the world's newspapers are printed on Canadian paper.

Canada is the 2nd largest exporter of potatoes in the world.

The name "Canada" is derived from the Huron-Iroquois language and means settlement or village.

With 2 Million lakes, Canada has the largest amount of freshwater in the world. (466,697 sq km)

Approx. 25% of Canada's land consists of forest.

Approx. 89% of Canada is not habitable, because the climate is too extreme.

Canada leads the world as the largest grain producer.

The Trans-Canada Highway is the longest national highway in the world (7,841 km)

Actar 911 CPR Dummy - Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault, and Jonathan Vinden

Anti-gravity suit - Dr. Wilbur R. Franks

Automatic lubricators - Elijah McCoy

Avro Arrow - Royal Canadian Air Force

Balderdash - Laura Robinson and aul Toyne

Basketball - Dr. James A. Naismith

Birchbark canoe - Canada's Natives

Chocolate bar - James K. Ganong

Cobalt bomb - University of Saskatchewan and Eldorado Mining and Refining

Cystic fibrosis gene - Lap-Chee Tsui

Electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn

Electric wheelchair - George J. Klein

Electron microscope - The University of Toronto

Explosives and vapour detector - Dr. Lorne Elias

Five-pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan

Football goalpost with single base - Jim Trimble

Fuller brush - Alfred C. Fuller

Ginger ale - John J. McLaughlin

Green garbage bag - Harry Wasylyk

Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt

Hydrofoil boat - Casey Baldwin and Alexander Graham Bell

Ice hockey - Members of the Royal Canadian Rifles

Imax film format - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr

Instant food - Dr. Edward Asselbergs

Insulin - Frederick Banting

Java - James Gosling

Jolly jumper - Olivia Poole

Kayak - Canada's Natives

Kerosene - Dr. Abraham Gesner

Lacrosse - Canada's Natives

Laser sailboat - Bruce Kirby, Ian Bruce, and Hans Fogh

Light bulb - Henry Woodward (later sold the patent to Thomas Edison)

McIntosh apple - John McIntosh

Mobile blood-transfusion service - Norman Bethune

Newsprint - Charles Fenerty

Pablum - Doctors T.G.H. Drake, Alan Brown, and Frederick F. Tisdall

Pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow

Paint roller - Norman Breakey

Panoramic camera - John Cannon

Pictionary - Rob Angel

Retractable beer case handle - Steve Pasjac

Robertson Screwdriver - Peter Lymburner Robertson

Snow blower - Arthur Sicard

Snow shoes - Canada's Natives

Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Speed of sound - Dr. George Wong

Standard time - Sandford Fleming

Stanley Cup - Lord Stanley of Preston

Steam foghorn - Robert Foulis

Stol aircraft - de Havilland Canada

Superman - Joe Shuster

Synchronized swimming - The Canadian Royal Lifesaving Society

Table hockey - Donald Munro

Telegraph - Frederic Newton Gesborne

Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell

Tipi - Canada's Natives

Tobaggan - Canada's Natives

Trivial Pursuit - Chris Haney and Scott Abbott

Variable pitch propeller - Wallace Rupert Turnbull

Velcro - George de Mestral

Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings

Yachtzee - Edwin S. Lowe

Zipper - Gideon Sundback

[von Wrangell]

Originally Posted by Spliff

Why is that against the law?

It's one of the remnants of our very old laws(we have laws that some around 1000 year old). I don't know the full reason for it but I would guess it has to do with the first settlers(at least the early settlers) coming here and them not liking the dogs because some of them used to attack the sheep that were very important just to survive here.

I'll see if I can find the laws and the reasoning behind them(there is often little reasoning behind our laws)


edit to add:

It seems these laws were repealed in 1998 and the decision making moved to the municipalities. I'll try to see what the biggest municipality says about this but I think their site for the laws and regulations are a bit more difficult to search through. If I find anything I'll add it here.

[Cubeoid]

Failing Agriculturalists Create Trends

[SimpleLife]

Einstein had several patents in refrigeration which turn into a pretty good income for him.

He was also an impossible womanizer, and he may have children who have no idea who the father was...

[Cubeoid]

Originally Posted by SimpleLife

He was also an impossible womanizer, and he may have children who have no idea who the father was...

Does that by any chance have something to do with the factual degree of the possibility?

[SimpleLife]

Originally Posted by Cubeoid

Does that by any chance have something to do with the factual degree of the possibility?

I do not know.

[BlueSky]

Dreams are only interesting to the person who has them.

[von Wrangell]

Originally Posted by Bluesky

Dreams are only interesting to the person who has them.

We only remember dreams we wake up from.

[JazzCatDRP]

In Wichita, KS, it is against the law to cross Douglas street without first firing a shotgun shot into the air.

[ghporter]

The Newfoundland Standard Time Zone (NST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and consists only of Newfoundland and Labrador (and not all of Labrador).

[Zenbone]

The intensity of the itch on your face is equal to the amount of goop on your hands.

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by ghporter

The Newfoundland Standard Time Zone (NST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and consists only of Newfoundland and Labrador (and not all of Labrador).

Yeah, I remember once seing a CBC promo and they said the show would air at 8:00pm NST!
And I was on the WEST COAST!

[ghporter]

Almost all of South America is EAST of Washington D.C. Brazil is only slightly farther west than Greenland.

In Panama City, Panama, one can watch the sun rise over the Pacific and set over the Atlantic (actually the Caribbean) due to the particular shape of the isthmus. Panama City is farther east than Miami, Florida.

According to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) the kilogram is the only SI unit still defined by a physical prototype; all others are defined by some natural phenomenon like the number of periods of a certain isotope's vibration (the second), or the distance traveled by light in a certain period of time (the meter).