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The British were not taught to aim their muskets, in fact the word aim appears nowhere in the British Manual of Arms.
“Ich bin ein Berliner” is roughly translated as “I am a Jelly Donut.
Yusuf Saiah-ad-din, known more famously as Saladin, was a great war leader and tactician but an atrocious swordsman. It is said that when he set out to slay the infamous renegade knight Reynald de Chatillon, Saladin swung for the neck but hacked off one of Reynald’s arms instead. 3. In October 1999 the 6 billionth person was born. 4. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
6. Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth. 7. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1 kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.8. Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. 9. Every year lightning kills 1000 people. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf. 11. If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour. 12. All the hydrogen atoms in our bodies were created 12 billion years ago in the Big Bang. 13. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun. 14. The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed. 15. Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating. 16. When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch. 17. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC. 18. If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away. 19. The Australian billy goat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange. 20. Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. 21. The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level. 22. One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea. 23. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler. The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.25. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo. 26. Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250. 28. Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.29. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall. 30. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days. 32. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts. 33. Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.34. Chimps can understand 300 different signs. 35. The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects. 36. In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant. 37. Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself. 38. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.39. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. 40. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body. 41. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute. The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature. 43. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away. 45. Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime. 46. At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet. 50. More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing. 51. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide. 52. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph. 53. A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease. 54. Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability. 55. The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly. 57. It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean. 58. There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth. 59. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year. 60. Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies. 61. Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe. 62. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets. 63. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth. 64. Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth. 65. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth. 66. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth. 67. Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions. 68. Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang. 69. The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees Celsius. 71. The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field. 72. Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed. Tuberculosis is the biggest global killer of women. 74. Hummingbirds consume half of their body weight in food every day. 75. Some species of bamboo grow at a rate of 3ft per day. 76. Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough. 77. The highest recorded train speed is 320.2 mph by the TGV train in France 78. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg. 79. The research spacecraft Helios B came within a record 27 million miles of the Sun. 80. 65 million years ago the impact of an asteroid is estimated to have had the power of 10 million H-Bombs. 81. The temperature at the centre of the Earth is estimated to be 5500 degrees Celsius. 82. Argentia in Newfoundland has an average 206 days of fog each year. 83. Mount Waiale’ale in Hawaii is the rainiest place in the world and has 335 rainy days a year. 84. 68% of all UFO sightings are by men. 85. 15% of the world’s fresh water flows down the Amazon. 86. A cat has 32 sets of muscles in each ear. 87. Over two-thirds of people admit to urinating while in public swimming pools. 88. More people die of heart attacks on Monday than on any other day of the week. 89. Beetles are the strongest animals on Earth relative to their size. A rhinoceros beetle can carry 850 times its own weight in its back. 90. In 1961 the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space. 91. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. 92. In 1885 Karl Benz built the first car powered by an internal combustion engine. 93. Scotsman John Baird invented the Baird televisor (now the television) in 1925.94. Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, is the most volcanically active place in the Solar System. Traffic lights with red and green gas lights were first introduced in London in 1868. Unfortunately, they exploded and killed a policeman. The first successful system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.97. Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans. 98. 3 billion of the world’s 6 billion population are under the age of 25.99. Infant mortality in 1900 was 142 in 1000 births. By 2000 it had reduced to just 6 in every 1000. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times 2. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth 3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years 4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons 5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide 7. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg 8. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine 9. 65% of those with autism are left handed 10. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet. 12. The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future]13. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air 14. 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor 15. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life 17. A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground 18. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade 19. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours 20. Butterflies taste with their hind feet, and their taste sensation works on touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in “The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum”, published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E 7. Your head creates inner noises: It’s rare, but exploding head syndrome exists. Memory is affected by body position: Where you are and how you are placed in your environment triggers memory. You can’t tickle yourself: Go ahead. Try to tickle yourself. Being right-handed can prolong your life: If you’re right-handed, you could live up to nine years longer than a lefty. Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so. FACT #1 – The human heart makes enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft! FACT #2 – The average person spends 3 years of his or her life on the toilet. It is also the main place where people do their reading! FACT #3 – Your heart beats about 100,000 times in a day! over an average lifetime it beats more than 3 BILLION times! FACT #4 – Every person has a different tongue print. Imagine if you had to use your tongue to ID yourself every day! That would be gross! FACT #5 – 23% of all photocopier breakdowns are caused by people photocopying their behinds! I always wondered why the copier machine in my school smelled funny, now I know why! FACT #6 – Babies are born without kneecaps. A child’s kneecaps do not appear until he or she is 2 years old. FACT #7 – There was woman who had a whopping total 69 children! Obviously this is the world record! I wonder how she remembered all their names? FACT #8 – You will die faster from extreme lack of sleep than starvation .FACT #9 – On very rare occasions sneezing too hard can cause you to fracture a rib. Weird Human FACTS #10 – While you are sleeping you will eat about 10 spiders and 70 insects during your lifetime. Hmm, I must remember to sleep with an oxygen mask from now on. FACT #11 – A person can drink about 20,000 gallons of water in his or her lifetime .FACT #12 -Everyday you share your birthday with about 9 million people. FACT #13 – The most common name in the world is…Mohammed. FACT #14 – We spend about one third of our lives sleeping. This means if a person lives to be 99 years old, he/she would have slept for around 33 years! Imagine how much more we could get done if we didn’t have to sleep.
FACT #15 – The average person is about 1/4 inch taller at night FACT #16 – The youngest couple ever to have children were 8 and 9 years old! They lived way back in 1910. FACT #17 – About half of the world’s population is under the age of 25. FACT #18 – Men are struck by lightening much more than women. FACT #19 – The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body Weird Human FACTS #20 – Men sweat about 40% more than women. FACT #21 – Color blindness occurs in men 10 times more than women. FACT #22 – Mongolians and Tibetans put salt in their tea instead of sugar. FACT #23 – Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing. FACT #24 – A human liver can still function if 80% of it has been removed. Eventually it will grow back to its original size. FACT #25 – The pupil in your eye can expand (dilate) as much as 45% when you see something you like. FACT #26 – The average height for a male Mbuti pygmies is 4’6″. This makes them among the shortest people in the wall. FACT #27 – In parts of India people wear masks on the back of their heads to confuse tigers. Tigers like to attack from behind. FACT #28 – In Los Angeles, California there are more cars than people FACT #29 – A person who has recently eaten a banana is more likely to attract mosquitoes. Weird Human FACTS #30 – A dog’s sense of smell is 95% better than yours FACT #31 – You breath about 23,000 times per day on average FACT #32 – Even the most intelligent person only uses one percent of the english language FACT #33 – The oldest known person lived to age 122. There have been unconfirmed reports that there is a Russia woman who is living right now with an unconfirmed age of 128! FACT #34 – 40% of cat and dog owners carry a picture of their pet in their wallet. FACT #35 – The average person’s dream lasts 2 to 3 seconds FACT #36 – At any given hour there are about 62,000 people in airplanes flying over the United States. FACT #37 – The Taj Mahal took 22 years to build and it was constructed by around 22,000 men. FACT #38 – You blink you eyes about 10 million times a year. FACT #39 – When you sneeze stuff (spit etc.) flys out your mouth at 300 MPH! That’s as fast as a category 5 tornado. Weird Human FACTS #40 – There are more people speaking english in China than there are in the United States. China’s population is more that triple the USA’s Ponder this: There are 1,415,000 dogs in New York City As reported by Lilibeth Davila, Supervisor of Dog Licensing at the New York City’s Department of Health, Of that number, I project that 95% of all dog owners pick up their dog shit every day. That leaves 5% that don’t or 70,750 dogs shitting, on average, twice a day providing 141,500 piles of shit every day or 4,245,000 piles every month (30 days) or 50,940,000 piles of shit every year. Where is it all? Where does it go?! I tend to think Washington DC.
It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.
Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas
A German Shepherd guide dog led her blind companion the entire 2100 mile Applachian Trail
If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could product over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
Dogs’ only sweat glands are between their paw pads
Like human babies, Chihuahuas are born with a soft spot in their skull which closes with age
The breed Lundehune has 6 toes and can close its ears
Teddy Roosevelt’s dog, Pete, ripped a French ambassador’s pants off at the White House
President Lyndon Johnson had two beagles named Him and Her
Franklin Roosevelt spent $15,000 for a destroyer to pick up his Scottie in the Aleutian Islands
In Roman times, mastiffs donned light armor and were sent after mounted knights
The Russians trained dogs during WWII to run suicide missions with mines strapped to their backs
A dog’s mouth exerts 150-200 pounds of pressure per square inch
… with some dogs exerting up to 450 pounds per squre inch.
A one year old dog is as mature, physically, as a 15 year old human
The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world
France has the 2nd highest
The average city dog lives 3 years longer than a country dog
87% of dog owners say their dog curls up beside them or at their feet while they watch T.V.
Dogs can be trained to detect epileptic seizures
15 people die in the U.S. every year from dog bites
In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than by sharks in the past 100 years
Gidget is the name of the Taco Bell dog
Newfoundlands are great swimmers because of their webbed feet
Basset Hounds cannot swim
Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on earth, with speeds of up to 45 miles per hour
Bingo is the name of the dog on the side of the Cracker Jack box
The bible mentions dogs 14 times
Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic – a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese
The Labrador Retriever is the #1 favorite breed in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
Obesity is the #1 health problem among dogs
An estimated 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. have been named as the primary beneficiaries in their owner’s will
An American Animal Hospital Assoc. poll found that 33% of dog owners admit to talking to their dogs on the phone and leaving answering machine messages for them while away
Dog’s nose prints are as unique as a human’s finger prints and can be used to accurately identify them
At the end of the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life”, a high-pitched dog whistle was recorded by Paul McCartney for his sheepdog
70% of people sign their pet’s name on greeting and holiday cards
58% put pets in family and holiday portraits
There are only 350 Cisky Terriers in the world – perhaps the rarest breed
The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in 17th century England when it is believed that many cats and dogs drowned during heavy periods of rain.
Dogs have no sense of “time”
Humans have kept dogs as pets for over 12,000 years
The largest breed of dog is the Irish Wolfhound
The world’s smallest dog breed is the Chihuahua
The St. Bernard is the heaviest
Only dogs and humans have prostates
But dogs do not have an appendix
Every dog on earth likely descended from a species knows as the Tomarctus – a creature that roamed the earth over 15 million years ago
The oldest known breed is likely the Saluki – originally trained by Egyptians to help them track game.
In 1957, Laika became the first living being in space via an earth satellite
… while JFK’s terrir, Charlie, father 4 puppies with Laika’s daughter
An African wolf dog known as the basenji is the only dog in the world that cannot bark
There are 703 breeds of purebred dogs
Dachshunds were originally bred for fighting badgers
The world’s smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the border collie, (2) the poodle, and (3) the golden retriever
… while the dumbest dog is believed to be the Afghan hound
A dog’s smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than that of a human’s
… which they need because their eyesight is not as keen as a human’s.
Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape
Chocolate contains a substance known as theobromine (similar to caffeine) which can kill dogs or at the very least make them violently ill
George Washington had thirty six dogs – all foxhounds – with one named Sweetlips
All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth
Smaller breeds mature faster than larger breeds
Female dogs are only ready to mate – “in heat” – twice a year for a total of roughly 20 days
Puppies sleep ninety percent of the day for their first few weeks
Rin Tin Tin was the first Hollywood dog star
… and he really signed his movie contracts – all 22 of them – with a pawprint
The Wizard of Oz’s Toto was played by a female Cairn Terrier named Terry
Up until the late 1800’s, Collies were known as Scottish Sheepdogs
Dogs have two times as many muscles to move their ears as people
The longer a dog’s nose, the more effective it’s internal cooling system
An elderly woman was saved by her 12 pound Yorkshire Terrier who fought off an 80 pound Akita and survived with only 9 stitches
U.S. Customs dogs “Rocky” and “Barco” were so good at patrolling the border that Mexican drug lords put a $300,000 bounty on their heads
Dogs are all direct descendants of wolves
Wolves and dogs can mate to produce fertal offspring
Female wolves have been known to travel great distances to regurgitate full meals for their hungry pups
Cerberus was the tri-headed dog that guarded the underworld in Greek mythology
Female dogs bear their young for 60 days before they’re born
Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s
Humans can detect sounds at 20,000 times per second, while dogs can sense frequencies of 30,000 times per second.
The earliest dog fossil dates back to nearly 10,000 B.C.
Bloodhounds are prized their ability to single out and identify a number of scents simultaneously
Dalmatian puppies are born completely white.
The Ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes
Boxers are so named because of their manner of playing with their front paws
All breeds of dog have been found to attack livestock – from 3 month old puppies, all the way up to thirteen year old poodles
A dog’s heart beats up to 120 times per minute, or 50% faster than the average human heartbeat of 80 times per minute
The oldest dog on record – a Queensland “Heeler” named Bluey – was 29 years, 5 months old
Davy Crockett had a dog named Sport
Dogs were first domesticated by cavemen
Dogs live 15 years on average
Many foot disorders inn dogs are simply an issue of long toenails
More than 5,000,000 puppies are born in the U.S. every year
More than 1 in 3 American families own a dog
Average body temperature for a dog is 101.2 degrees
The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts both offer merit badges in dog care
Dogs are natural pack animals
They are naturally submissive to any creature with higher pack status – human or canine
Dogs instinctively require the pack leader’s approval
Dogs with little human contact in the first three months typically don’t make good pets
The Chihuahua was named after the state in Mexico where they were discovered
After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old
Their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month
EIGHTH PLACE In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. SEVENTH PLACE A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally zoned when he ran,” accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run. SIXTH PLACE Buxton , NC : A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the
wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge , VA , but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. FIFTH PLACE Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc , as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. FOURTH PLACE Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville , Del , as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. THIRD PLACE THIS ONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST PLACE The following mind-boggling attempt at a crime spree in Washington , DC appeared to be the robber’s first (and last), due to his lack of a previous record of violence, and his terminally stupid choices: 1. His target was H&J Leather & Firearms; A gun shop specializing in handguns. 2. The shop was full of customers – firearms customers. 3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door. 4. A uniformed officer was standing at the counter, having coffee before work. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer with a 9mm GLOCK 17, the clerk with a 50 DESERT EAGLE, assisted by several customers who also drew their guns, several of whom also drew and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics
identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt in the exchange of fire. HONORABLE MENTION Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed. RUNNER UP: TACOMA , WA . Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation
grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman’s cable lay near by. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham’s leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy salt water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. “All I can say” said Bingham, “is that God was watching out for me on that night. There’s just no other
explanation for it.” Bingham’s foot was never located. AND THE WINNER… Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the
plugged- up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of shit! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was
attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. “The sheer force of the elephant’s unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a roc k and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him” said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. With no one there to help him, he lay under all that shit for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves… “Shit happens.”

“I DON’T THINK,
therefore I am not.”
-Descartes’ last words?