Interesting Facts #13

Posted on July 30, 2006 by divinegeek

  • Dueling is only legal in Paraguay if both parties are registered blood donors.
  • Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that very reason.
  • Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Interesting Facts #12

Posted on July 30, 2006 by divinegeek

  • Horses can’t vomit.
  • Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
  • There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
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Minor Break From The Usual

Posted on July 30, 2006 by divinegeek

Well…the tired is starting to set in a little. Being on the Sabbath schedule has one major drawback and one minor benefit, in my opinion. The drawback is that we have to stay up longer. On the regular Blogathon schedule, most participants wake up somewhere around 5-6am so start. Most Sabbath schedule people don’t/can’t just wake up an hour before they start blogging (at 9pm). So most Sabbath scedule people are up significantly longer than the regular ‘thonners. I was up at 1pm on Saturday and I won’t go back to sleep until around 10ish on Sunday. That’s a 33 hour day vs. the 25 or so hour day that the regular scedulers get. The benefit, though, is that we start out in the dark and finish (mostly) in the light. It’s much easier to stay awake when it’s light outside. So although we have to stay up longer, we do get a small push to help us Sabbath people stay away! Just a little food for thought, I guess…

Back to the scheduled programming…

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Interesting Facts #11

Posted on July 30, 2006 by divinegeek

  • The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia
  • The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
  • More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
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Interesting Facts #10

Posted on July 30, 2006 by divinegeek

  • In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
  • On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
  • Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage.
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