I Learned A lot of things today by just browsing the net

DID YOU KNOW . . . :w00t: :w00t:

• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
• The average cruise ship burns approximately 1 gallon of fuel to move just 6 inches
• The abbreviation ORD for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the old name "Orchard Field." ( ORcharD)
• In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the streets to be blocked off on Christmas eve so that people can roller skate to church
• Every state in the USA has a town named Springfield
• While Warsaw, Poland has the largest Polish population, Chicago, Illinois boasts of having the world's second largest number of Polish residents. One out of every ten Chicagoans can claim Polish Ancestry.
• In which country does the McDonald's restaurant chain serve apricot pies instead of cherry? New Zealand
• The zoo in Tokyo closes for two months of the year so the animals can have a holiday from visitors
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 180 feet tall and now tipped over 16 feet to one side. Scientists estimate that it has approximately 100 years left before it collapses
• In Iceland people are listed alphabetically by their first name in the phone book. Icelanders regard the first name as the "real" name. The last name of a person is rarely used to identify a person.
• Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969
• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
• The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through
• The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
• Every guest at the Mount Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki, Kenya, crosses the Equator to get from the entrance of the main building to the restaurants. To prove that this is truly the Equator, the Club invites guests to a demonstration. On one side of the line (the north), they watch water flow clockwise through a hole, while on the south side they watch water flow counter-clockwise.
• During World War One, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian Army
• It is a criminal offense to drive around in a dirty car in Russia
• Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society.
• People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick
• The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last 1300 years
• Earth is the only planet not named after a God
• In the north of Norway, the sun shines constantly for about 14 weeks each summer.

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Awesome Facts About CHICAGO - By Cakebaker
30 Failed Predictions

 

Lots of obvious facts about Chicago ;D

 

Also learned that the LARGEST SHOPPING MALL is an EPIC FAIL.

WORLD'S BIGGEST SHOPPING MALL
South China Mall, Dongguan, China.... Shops on 6 floors

99.2 percent unoccupied, no retailers available to take shops

 

some stuf i didnt know... cool post...

 

I also found this LoL.

Learn Learn Learn... :innocent:

• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
• 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.
• The word "toast," meaning a proposal of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned bread was dropped into wine to improve the drink's flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it more healthful.
• The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three back-to-back double letter combinations.
• There is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in France called "Y."
• What is called a "French kiss" in England and America is known as an "English kiss" in France.
• The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." "Tittle" is Latin for something very small.
• The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words: "Jesus wept." (John 11:35)
• The letter "o" is the oldest letter. It has not changed in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet, circa 1,300 B.C.
• The letter "b" took its present form from a symbol used in Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent a house.
• When used by an ornithologist, the word "lore" refers to the space between a bird's eye and its bill.
• The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including"y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.
• The most common name in the world is Muhammed.
• The most common street name in the U.S. is Second Street.
• Henry Ford experimented with soy. Many of the meals served in his home consisted of his soy creations.
• The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," derived its title from the enthusiasm of the men of Marseilles, France, who sang it when they marched into Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. Rouget de l'Isle, its composer, was an artillery officer. According to his account, he fell asleep at a harpsichord and dreamt the words and the music. Upon waking, he remembered the entire piece from his dream and immediately wrote it down.
• A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
• Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
• In 1500 B.C. in Egypt a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
• In ancient China and certain parts of India, mouse meat was considered a great delicacy.
• In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured by temple priests.
• In 1400 B.C. it was the fashion among rich Egyptian women to place a large cone of scented grease on top of their heads and keep it there all day. As the day wore on, the grease melted and dripped down over their bodies, covering their skin with an oily, glistening sheen and bathing their clothes in fragrance.
• In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

 

"Every state in the USA has a town named Springfield"

dammit now i wont know where the Simpsons live

"Earth is the only planet not named after a God"

yet it is the only planet where they worship them (damn, so many religious conflicts coz of that >.>)

 

do u know that the largest soccer stadium is in north korea?

 

Reminds me of this "shopping mall" in my town that was made to be a shopping mall but ..
No one bought the places for their shops so it's a building full of offices now lol.

 

"It is a criminal offense to drive around in a dirty car in Russia"

it is not if plates on a car(with numbers) can be clearly seen.

 

same for many other countries

 

The human body

• It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
• One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
• Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
• A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
• Women blink twice as often as men.
• The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
• Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
• If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

 

/awesome thread is awesome ;]

 

"Human thighbones are stronger than concrete."
lets use human bones in construction then

"A woman's heart beats faster than a man's."
not when he sees a sexy woman

"The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain."
for some people i know a LOT more times ^^

"If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it."
go lick a sidewalk


another one u didnt list

when u line up all the blood vessels in the human body in a straight line, they could reach all the way to the moon ^^

 

Browsing the net like this is fun. :biggrin:

• The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
• The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
• The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
• France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
• 4,000 people are injured by teapots each year.
• The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
• The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
• The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
• George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
• The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
• The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
• The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
• Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
• The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
• The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
• Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
• The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
• Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
• Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
• Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
• Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

 

busted by MB. Crocodiles and alligators wont chase you on the land. ^^

 

yeah i remember that.. i saw that episode too. i am also an avid watcher of that series.
they even used themselves as bait.

 

i found this while browsing too.

WORLD'S BIGGEST OFFICE COMPLEX ... Chicago Merchandise Mart...Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

Cool and new stuff to learn.
Ty learned great new things

 

This is just WOW!!!

WORLD'S LARGEST PALACE
Palace of the Parliament...Bucharest, Romania...more than 500 bedrooms, 55 kitchens, 120 sitting rooms