~ One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
~ One superstition says that if a girl leaves her house early on Valentine’s Day and the first person she meets is a man, then she will be married within three months.
~ Less romantic was the old historical opinion that Valentine’s Day is a good day to prepare eels for the purposes of magic. Eating an eel’s heart was once believed to enable a person to see into the future.
~ One-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year.
~ Ninety Million people survive on less than $75 a year.
~ The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California…
~ The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
~ A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
~ A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
~ Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
~ Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
~ You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
~ Mr. Snuffleupagas’ first name was Alyoisus.
~ Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
~ 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.
~ Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”
~ The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan’s original name was Temujin.
~ It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it’s stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it’s mouth. Then the frog uses it’s forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. (Ok this is disgusting!!)
~ When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a “portmanteau.”
~ “Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”
~ The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
Happy Sunday!
1 COMMENT
Kristi
14 years agoWell, except that it's NORTH America and SOUTH America, not just "America." 🙂
And yes, that frog thing is disgusting! LOL