Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Potty humor and Useless Facts

Here's another costume thought for Branshine.


So Thanks to everyone for your encouraging words as I say, sometimes I just need to get shit off my chest, don't feel the need to say cheer up or whatever, I will eventually. But so to change the mood, I came across a nifty little site yesterday that I thought I'd share, it's got a bunch of really neat pics everyone needs to see, but not around lunch time, unless you don't have a lunch and want to lose your appetite.It's THE OPOSSUM PROJECT HOME PAGE I'll leave out the details so you have to check it out for yourself. And once again I need to empty out useless facts. THANK GOD IT'S FAKE FRIDAY!!!

The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes.

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.

The Sea of Tranquility on the moon is deeper than the highest mountain on Earth.

The first household refrigerator cost about $16,000, in today's money.

The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.

If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth's oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep.

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.

If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.

Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

Over 170,000 Indians from 210 tribes live in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.

In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet.

In Columbia, one can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping!

At 120mph, a formula one car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down in the roof of a tunnel.