Interesting but useless tidbits...............

[Ann]

Feel free to add your own tidbits of interesting, but useless, information!

mine is:

On Wednesday of this week,

at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00

in the morning,

the time and date will be

01:02:03 04-05-06

This will never happen again.

OK....What tidbits do you have to share?

[ginnyde]

And again in the afternoon.

Also June 6, 2006 will be written as 6/6/6.

Devilish number, eh.

[Ann]

The five most stolen items in a drugstore are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses, and, get this, Preparation H. Apparently people are just too embarrassed to purchase the last item. And, just in case you are curious, one of Preparation H's main ingredient is shark liver oil. The oil not only helps shrink hemorrhoids, but will shrink any tissue. As a result, many older women in Florida use the stuff to help reduce the appearance of wrinkles!

Source: Do Pharmacists Sell Farms? by Vince Staten (1998, Simon & Schuster)

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[Snowflake]

Feel free to add your own tidbits of interesting, but useless, information!

mine is:

On Wednesday of this week,

at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00

in the morning,

the time and date will be

01:02:03 04-05-06

This will never happen again.

OK....What tidbits do you have to share?

Useless tidbit - I beat you to this one, Ann! LOL

http://lchelp.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=22220

A butterfly's tastebuds are on his/her feet.

Elephants can't jump.

A giraffe's tongue is blue - and a giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human's.

Rats can't fart.

Bears run faster up hill than down.

It is illegal for a man to marry his widow's sister.

According to the laws of physics, bumblebees can't fly (don't tell that to the bees, please).

The first movie role Sean Connery was a singing role in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People." (Boy, was he HOT!)

[Linda661]

Ok, that's it....the 1-2-3-4-5-6 thing....it will repeat in 100 years (not necessarily on the same day of the week....but we can add +100 years until that happens), not a one-time/never to be seen again event at all. And if anyone says we won't be here to see that.....you haven't found out what you will be in your next lifetime or two from Snowflake's reincarnation quiz. See you then.

Linda

[Jyoung20]

One fo the first musical conductor's in existence died from stabbing his foot with his baton(looked like a mace). This is why conductor's today use the small baton's to conduct.

GOD BLESS!

Jamie

[shelliemacs]

the "small web" underneath your tounge is filled with small blood vessels and when bitten off it will bleed profusely.

(personal experiance with this experiance)

[Ann]

Life in the 1500's

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500's:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

And that's the truth... Now, whoever said that History was boring ! ! !

[Ann]

MORE THINGS YOU MAY NEVER NEED TO KNOW

The heart of a shrimp is in its head.

Withheld sneezes are the number one cause of detached retinas.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.

Wearing headphones for one hour will multiply the bacteria in your ear by 700.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is an image of Superman.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Everyone's tongue print is as unique as their fingerprints.

The liquid inside very young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Wrigley's gum was the first product to sport a barcode.

The King of Hearts is the only king in the deck without a moustache.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine at waking you up in the morning.

Only Greece and Australia have participated in every single Olympics.

The A & W of root beer fame stands for Allen & Wright.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918.

The microwave was invented when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation leaking from it caused the chocolate bar in his lab coat pocket to melt.