"I am free of all prejudices - I hate everyone equally"  - W.C. Fields

 - possibly not a good thing lol.

"I would have made a good pope" Richard Nixon

- A former president as pope....not sure about that one lol.

"How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties if cheese." Charles De Gaulle

- What a strange thing to say.....

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up" Muhammad Ali

MY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Why do our feet smell and our noses run??????

Was just thinking the other day that I hadn't posted anything in this group for ages, and when I pop in it says the last post was in JUNE!!!! Anyhow, have managed to scrounge up some more useless tid bits to chew on:

• TNT is short for trinitrotoluene
• DDT is short for Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane - try saying that one fast!
• We use at least 54 muscles for every forward step!
• A baby oyster is called a spat
• Ferruccio Lamborghini once made tractors and air conditioners
• Avocado gets it's name from the aztec word for testicle ("ahuacatl").
• On average a person dreams for up to 2 hrs a night, but rarely remembers them.
• Tequila is distilled from the agave plant (a type of cactus)
• The toothbrush was invented in china in 1498
• Sir Garfield Sobers was the first cricket batsman to hit 6 consecutive sixes off one over.
• The most common surname in Italy is Rossi.
• Winners at the first modern olympics in 1896 were presented with silver medals, not gold.
• Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's Maiden name - Buzz was the second man on the moon in 1969.
• Bone mass accounts for 20% of body weight.
• When the popeye comic appeared in 1931, spinach consumption in the US increased by 33%
• An 80kg person would weigh approx 26.6kg on Mars.
• John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.
• Rapper Vanilla Ice' real name is Robert Van Winkle.... 

Whatcha think?

Ok, I can see not much has been added since my last post lol. So, I've collected a few more tidbits to share. Here goes:

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
• Greece's national anthem consists of a total of 158 four line verses.
• When you lick a stamp, you consume approx one-tenth of a calorie.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
• The laryngeal prominence is more commonly known as the adams apple
• It was quite common for the men of Ancient Greece to excercise in public - naked! (the olympics itself used to be a men-only occasion and the contestants were completely naked)
• The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle ("Gluteus Maximus)
• The statue of Liberty's nose is 1.48 M in length
• A sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
• Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightening than women!
• The movie "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film to show a toilet flushing.
• Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
• A baseballer by the name of Jim Wohlford was once quoted as saying, "Ninety percent of the game is half mental" !!!! Now, how does that work??? lol

Yep, fish can drown!! The reason being that when a fish is out of water, the water molecules on the fish's gills stick together, causing the gills themselves to stick together and oxygen cannot pass through gills, so technically they drown.

Also Bears don't actually hibernate (not a TRUE hibernation anyway). Hibernation is a specific term used to refer to a long-term torpor in cold weather. What the heck is torpor you ask? Well it's basically a natural hypothermia where an animal is able to significantly lower their metabolic rate and their ability to respond to stimuli. The reason why bears don't actually hibernate is that they only reduce their metabolic rate slightly (for an animal of their size to wake up from a proper hibernation would require them to consume more energy than that required to remain at a normal metabolic rate for the period, and would take more than a day). But they neither do they eat or drink, or pass urine or faeces - it's more of a case of them enduring a long period of starvation than an actual hibernation. Females can even give birth and nurse cubs during this period.

And lastly, some arctic fish and crustaceans have a chemical in their blood which acts as an anti-freeze, so that the animal can appear frozen, but once the ice clears they become active again.

Now how many of you knew that?! - Unkown Author

Food for thought: If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?      

Someone that moves and waves their hands about when speaking is gesticulating.

I didn't even know there was a word for that until today! pmsl

did you know that a female rat can smell defective genes in a male and if there is a group of female rats they will kill that male.

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.  

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. .. . .they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.

The flushable toilet was invented by a guy who's surname was.... Crapper.

And that's exactly where the term "crap" meaning poop came from. However, it's not related in any way to the name of the game called craps.

I can't remember his first name though. Was something really boring and common anyway.

Now lets see . . .

Did you know that :

• Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC
• Cold water weighs less than hot water
• Only 1000 animal born in our seas will reach maturity
• All shrimps are born male and as they grow they become females

Well thats my bit to offer . . ENJOY . .Cheers Kellz

I have gathered a few more to muse over (hehehehehehe):

1. A condor can fly up to 15,000 feet in altitude! (now that's high!!)
2. The number 7 iron in a set of golf clubs was once called a mashie-niblick (how strange!)
3. A typical adult human body contains 206 bones
4. Nike paid $US35 for the 'Swoosh' logo in 1971 to design student Carolyn Davidson.
5. The oldest female competitor at an olympic games was 70 (1972, Lorna Johnstone - Equestrian)

Food for thought from George Carlin: If the Police arrest a Mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? 

The male honey possum, a tiny animal weighing in at a mere 9 grams at the most, has the longest spermatozoa (sperm) of the mammalian world, measuring 1/3 of a millimetre.

Australia is the only country in the world where camels are found in the wild.

Blondes have more hair on their heads than brunettes or red heads.

Pill bugs, despite their name and the fact they are found wandering around in gardens along side various other bugs, aren't bugs at all. In fact they aren't even insects. They are actually crustaceans, more closely related to lobsters.

Male Jewel Beetles have a weird habit of trying to mate with discarded amber beer bottles, mistaking them for females of the species.

Here's some more useless info I've picked up today lol (not giving away my source but - 'tis my secret mwaaaaaaa )

• Zsa Zsa Gabor was once quoted as saying "I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house".
• The front teeth of a wombat never stop growing.
• Pope John Paul II was goal keeper for an amateur soccer team.
• Only female mosquitoes bite
• The smallest bird in the world is a species of Hummingbird called the "Bee Hummingbird". It weighs around 1.8 grams, and measures around 5cm - now THAT's tiny! 
• The Peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth - at a dive it can reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Second to it is the Cheetah.
• Your foot is the same length as your lower arm - from your wrist to your elbow.
• If you were to cut yourself in half from top to bottom, you'd see that both halves are slightly different. One "half" is usually slighty longer/fatter/wider, etc than the other. You can see this when you put your hands together. If you put them together so that they are exactly lined up at the bottom, one hand will be slightly longer than the other (ie, look at your fingertips when doing this).

Anyone got anymore?.....

A homophone is a word that sounds like another word of different meaning. eg: their and there, saw and sore, to too and two.

The skin of a polar bear is black.

If all the spiders in the world were wiped out at the same time, the planet would be over run with other insects within about 72 hours.

Headlice can not jump or fly, they can only crawl.

The redback is the ultimate female dominent spider. Whereas other spiders may eat their mate after copulation if the male doesn't make a quick enough exit, the female redback actually devours her mate during copulation and is the only spider known to do so. The male, whilst impregnating the female, flips his body over and offers his abdomen for her to eat. By the end of the process, she's preggers and he's a little empty exoskeleton.

And people wonder why I love redback spiders! Mwahahahahaha!

What a great group idea.

Did you know that children are born without knee caps? THey grow kneecaps when they are about 18 months old (i think)

When you are asleep your body produces as much heat as a 100-watt light bulb.

A fire has been burning in Australia for about 2,000 years. It started when a seam of coal was set on fire perhaps by lightning. The fire is now 500 feet under the ground.

The average person who quits smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.. i wonder how they figured this one out...

Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left

When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red

I like this group already how cool! Will post some interesting facts later on x

that there is another group on Minti called "Did you know" that is essentially the same as this one. LOL

I only just found out myself.

I love this trivia nonsense!

A xiphoid process is a little tiny bone found at the bottom of your sternum.

Daddy long legs spiders can bite a human, but the worst reaction we humans usually have is no worse than a mosquito bite.

Your funny bone is actually a nerve that crosses over the end of your humorus, which is the bone in your upper arm.

Red blood cells contain no DNA, neither does hair (except for the folicle itself).

The two most deadly creatures to mankind to have ever lived on the planet are mosquitos and fleas. (because they have killed off millions of people by spreading malaria and the black plague)

Lycomania is a recognised mental disorder in which the patient believes they are a wolf.

The black plague that wiped out most of Europe a few hundred years ago was actually two diseases travelling together. The pneumonic plague and the bubonic plague. The pneumonic plague created the flu symptoms and was the deadly one, killing >90% of victims. The bubonic plague caused the blacked skin boils and only killed <10% of victims. Unfortunately, most people caught both at the same time. Both were spread by fleas. Both still exist today in small pockets of the world. The bubonic plague can be cured with anti-biotics, the pneumonic plague can't be cured, but can be vaccinated against if my memory serves me correctly.

Australian Rules Football was a game created to give cricket players something to do to keep fit during the winter off-season.