Now you know everything!

[Jack & Coke]

I got this in an email...

If you have any other additional facts and tid bits (true stuff only), please share the love! :)



Now you know everything!


After you read this, you should know everything:

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The
spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't
know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept
at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne
particles resulting from the flush. I keep my
toothbrush in the living room now.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as
substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7
times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane
crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching
television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty
years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's
gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a
mustache.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright
brother's first flight.

The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was
twice as long.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in
first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking
you up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are composed of
dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung
cancer. So did the first 'Marlboro Man.'

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually
than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just
didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is
from the days when the engines were pulled by
horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president
whose name contains all the letters from the word
"criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.

And, the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Now you know everything there is to know.

[Brak]

" Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually
than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined. "

dude thats F-ed up.

[einhander619]

And 46% of facts are made up on the spot. But really, at all times you are probably less than 7 feet away from a spider. Blecch!

[ntn4502]

that duck one just makes you think:confused:

[FalconGuy016]

Lol it would just be the qualities of the sound that probably elimintates itself before it can go on, like the sound and the opposite of that sound at the same time. It sure sounds like it

Cool facts

[rhetor22]

yeah that duck thing is really funny.

I gotta strangle a duck in a gymnasium now

[Multi-Colored J]

I just folded a piece of newspaper 7 times! Beat that!

[zvanut]

Originally posted by Jack & Coke

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7
times.

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:)
more than

[ChucktheMAGician]

Nice to know I have more toes than Marilyn Monroe:D

[OKJEFF4]

Mmm.. Toddlers can inhale and exhale at the same time.

Some people can inhale through their butts, everyone can exhale.

I have ten toes.

[Potatoboy]

The duck thing is the most false of all of those statements, so I shall start there:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm

Please, browse that site after reading that.

There are a lot of things people know matter-of-factly that are just downright false.

[Potatoboy]

Marilyn Monroe did not have a sixth toe.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmtoes.htm

[The-Z-Man]

What about the melting pearls in vinager. That might be false but i'll have to ask my science teacher about that. He practically knows everything about chemistry.

[Archangel Kid]

hmm... pigs orgasim's last for 30mins :p...

[TecnoRobo]

Fact or not i thought this was a thread about everything i wanted to ever know

i did not want to know about the pig...

[Archangel Kid]

lol sorry :)... but there are people that just need to know things like that :p

[AutomagBoy]

im gonna grow up to be a pig. lucky cops.

[Archangel Kid]

BUAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!!! omg thanks so much for that

[andymac]

and a ducks quack does echo in certain conditions every sound has an echo its jsut maybe people cant hear it or maybe it is unmeasurable but everything that has sound has a sound wave and all sound waves are capable of echoing

[Jack & Coke]

from more emails...

>>>> Some incredibly interesting facts to get you through the week:
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
>>>>
>>>> If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the
>>>> air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the
>>>> air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the
horse
>>>> has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
>>>>
>>>> No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
>>>> purple.
>>>>
>>>> Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
>>>> killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
>>>> fired."
>>>>
>>>> Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
>>>>
>>>> There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
>>>>
>>>> Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
>>>> Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the
>>>> last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
>>>>
>>>> "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>>>>
>>>> The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
>>>> Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
>>>> machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
>>into the
>>>> fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the
>>>> whole 9 yards."
>>>>
>>>> The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
>>>>
>>>> The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
>>>>
>>>> The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
>>>>
>>>> The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
>>>>
>>>> Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
>>>>
>>>> Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden.
>>>> The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic
>>>> stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent
>>>> accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too
>>>> sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.
>>>>
>>>> The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
>>>> killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
>>>>
>>>> In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
>>>>
>>>> Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
>>>>
>>>> More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
>>>>
>>>> The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from
>>>> Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye >>>>
gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified
>>>> was to poke someone's eye out.
>>>>
>>>> A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
>>>>
>>>> The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
>>>> looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
>>>>
>>>> Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
>>>>
>>>> Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
>>>>
>>>> The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law
>>>> which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything
>>>> wider than your thumb.
>>>>
>>>> An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
>>>>
>>>> The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

[Will Wood]

LOL, very nice. That gave me some amusment for tonight :D

[andymac]

dude..... you have wayyyyyyy to much time on your hands....haha

[The-Z-Man]

the "i am." thing is incorrect, "go." is the shorest sentence in the english language.

[Jack & Coke]

subject and verb?

[Will Wood]

Subjet [you] Implied, verb go.

[Jack & Coke]

Implied?

The basic sentence consists of a verb and a subject.

Thus, the shortest complete sentence is two words.

"I am." only has three letters. Maybe that's why the email said it was the shortest sentence... I don't know, I didn't make up the fact...:)

[-Jôker-]

Originally posted by OKJEFF4
Mmm.. Toddlers can inhale and exhale at the same time.

.

everybody is cabable of doing that its called circular breathing, its an acquired skill usualy found in musicians that use their lungs;)

[FooTemps]

I can't do circular breathing... I've tried to learn how to do it while I was playing my flute but it was too difficult for me to do.

[Jack & Coke]

Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European Parliament has commissioned a feasability study in ways of improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.

European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessary difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be administered by a committee staff at top level by participating nations.

In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter.

There would be growing enthousiasm when in the sekond year, it was anounsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.

This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in print.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.

We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o kould be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru.

[-Jôker-]

Originally posted by Jack & Coke
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC, the European Parliament has commissioned a feasability study in ways of improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.

European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessary difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be administered by a committee staff at top level by participating nations.

In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter.

There would be growing enthousiasm when in the sekond year, it was anounsed that the troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.

This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in print.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.

We would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary 'o kould be dropd from words kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru.


then hardcore english speakers like me would be like "SAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY WHAAAAAAAATTTTT"
:rolleyes:

[Archangel Kid]

good god... now translate that in to ebonix :)

[Jack & Coke]

Originally posted by Archangel Kid
good god... now translate that in to ebonix :)

Having chosen English as da preferred language in da EEC, da European Parliament has commissioned uh feasability study in ways o' improving efficiency in communications between Government departments.

European officials gots often pointed out dat English spelling iz unnecessary difficult; fo' example: cough, plough, rough, through an' thorough. What iz clearly needed iz uh phased programme o' changes ta iron out deez anomalies. The programme would, o' course, be administered by uh committee staff at top level by participating nations.

In da first year, fo' example, da committee would suggest usin' 's' instead o' da soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would resieve dis here news wiff joy. Then da hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters iz pronounsed alike. Not only would dis here klear up konfusion in da minds o' klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made wiff one less letter.

There would be growing enthousiasm when in da sekond year, it wuz anounsed dat da troublesome 'ph' would henseforth be written 'f'.

This would make werdz like 'fotograf' tweny per sent shorter in print.

In da third year, publik akseptanse o' da new spelling kan be expekted ta reash da stage where mo' komplikated shanges iz possible. Governments would enkourage da removal o' double letters which gots always been uh deterent ta akurate speling.

We would al agre dat da horible mes o' silent 'e'sin da languag iz disgrasful. Therefor we's kould drop thes an' kontinu ta read an' writ as though nuttin' had hapend. By dis here tim it would be four years sins da skem began an' peopl would be reseptive ta steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion o' 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh iz, afta al, half uh 'w'. Shortly afta zis, ze unesesary 'o kould be dropd from werdz kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud o' kors be aplid ta ozer kombinations o' leters.

Kontinuing zis proses yer afta yer, ve vud eventuli hav uh reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be nahh mor trubls, difikultis an' evrivun vud fin it ezi tu dig' ech ozer. Ze drems o' da Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru. Wurd to yo mutha!

[Ghengis]

Majority of a pearl consist of the group aragonite, a class of carbonates, and other trace elements. If you did you chemistry study well enough .. Carbonate reacts with Acid.

Vinegar is Acetic Acid (C2H4O2). Pearl (CaCO3)

2CH3COOH + CaCO3 => H2CO3 + Ca(CH3COO)2

H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is unstable in room temperature.. so it decomposes to H2CO3 => H2O + CO2(gas)

[Cryer]

Originally posted by Ghengis
Majority of a pearl consist of the group aragonite, a class of carbonates, and other trace elements. If you did you chemistry study well enough .. Carbonate reacts with Acid.

Vinegar is Acetic Acid (C2H4O2). Pearl (CaCO3)

2CH3COOH + CaCO3 => H2CO3 + Ca(CH3COO)2

H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is unstable in room temperature.. so it decomposes to H2CO3 => H2O + CO2(gas)


Ok, I understood up to "Majority of a pearl consists of..."
The rest, well... Lets just say that I'll have less of a problem with Jack & Coke's new English Language.:p

[Jack & Coke]

Originally posted by Ghengis

Vinegar is Acetic Acid (C2H4O2). Pearl (CaCO3)

2CH3COOH + CaCO3 => H2CO3 + Ca(CH3COO)2

H2CO3 (carbonic acid) is unstable in room temperature.. so it decomposes to H2CO3 => H2O + CO2(gas)





OWNED!




lol! :)http://www.automags.org/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Will Wood]

Originally posted by Jack & Coke
Implied?

The basic sentence consists of a verb and a subject.

Thus, the shortest complete sentence is two words.

"I am." only has three letters. Maybe that's why the email said it was the shortest sentence... I don't know, I didn't make up the fact...:)

Eh.. you must not have been listening in English class :D
I wasn't either.. but I do remember implied subjects.

"Go get the trash" (Or something like that)
[You] Go get the trash.
There was some messed up thing we had to do on sentance diagraming to fit in the implied subject. I hated it.

[Jonno06]

it could be (I) Go get the trash.

you cant really imply anything unless you are the one saying it. no one has any idea what they are thinking when they say it..its impossible.

[Jack & Coke]

Originally posted by Will Wood


Eh.. you must not have been listening in English class :D



LOL!:rolleyes:

ALL COMPLETE sentences must have both a subject and a predicate (i.e. simple, complete, and compound). A verb is a simple predicate.

All this talk of "implied" stuff relates to "command" sentences. A "command" is the only type of sentence that has no subject. These are exceptions to the subject/predication rule, and are not concidered "complete" sentences. Without additional sentences, the "command" is meaningless and can not stand on it's own (as indicated by Jonno06).

[Will Wood]

Ok, talking to the English teacher tomarow. I'm still pretty confident you two are wrong lol.

It is a command.. so maybe you're right, if it's not considered a "real" sentance.


... You or I? Does it matter? Either way, they are both subjects...

Googled to help support:


Contrary to what you may have found doing an Internet search, the shortest English language sentence is not “I am.”* Follow along now—it does get technical.
*
“I am,” first of all, is not a sentence. An English sentence must have a subject / predicate relationship, and the key element in that relationship is the type of verb that creates the predicate. Verbs either show action or they do not.* Verbs without action, such as “am,” when used as a predicate, must have something to complete the meaning—a complement. So you “am” “something.”* “I am happy” is a sentence since “happy” is fulfilling the complement role. Therefore, “I am” is not a sentence.
*
The shortest English sentence is probably “Go.”** “Go” is an action verb and can be used in imperative mood, which means that it can be used with good, old “You Understood.”* So “Go” actually means “You go.”* On the other hand, if that interpretation doesn’t strike your fancy, let’s say that understood meanings are disallowed, then “I go” is the shortest sentence. “Go” doesn’t require a complement since it is an action verb nor does it require a direct object.* With a total of three letters—the same number as the illegal “I am” contender—“I go” should reign as the champion, unless someone out there knows of a single letter verb. (No fair pulling in Old English and foreign languages.

[j.t.]

Will Wood is right I think. Im pretty sure I have been told by quite a few different english teachers that "Go!" IS considered a complete sentance.:cool:

[Archangel Kid]

Lol... thanks Jack & Coke for translating that for me :p... not like I understand it... its just funny to read :D

[Jack & Coke]

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1,7 million years.

Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.

A fathom is 1,8 metres (6 feet).

There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. "She" probably derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking word for feminine reference.

There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.

After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.

For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

On every continent there is a city called Rome.

The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.

The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London, which today is the 13th most populated city, with about 8 million residents.

The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.

The Vatican is the world's smallest country, at 0,44 square km (0,16 square miles).

The US flag displays 13 stripes - for the original 13 states.

To most Americans, the orient is China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam; to Europeans it is the area of India and Pakistan.

The words "electronic mail" might sound new but was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge. More at creditcards

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.

Women make up 49% of the world population.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.

The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter which also is produced naturally in the brain.

From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local barber's duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originates from when patients would grip the pole during an operation.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian.

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.

It is not true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be viewed from space - many man-made objects, including the Dutch polders, can be viewed from space.

[The-Z-Man]

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with. Except for South America

[lazyprzn]

umm z-man how bout North America?

[Jack & Coke]

The shortest war on record took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes.

The longest was the so-called 100-years war between Britain and France. It actually lasted 116 years, ending in 1453.

It was during the 100-years war that direct taxation on income was introduced, a British invention designed to finance the war with France.

The NATO attack on Serbia in 1999 during the Kosovo war killed more animals than people.

The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea. More

The first reference to a handgun was made in an order for iron bullets in 1326.

When killed in battle, Japanese officers were promoted to the next highest rank.

During the 1991 Gulf War, the Allies dropped more than 17,000 smart bombs and 210,000 dumb (unguided) bombs on Iraqi troops.

Chevy Chase was a battle that took place on the english-Scottish border in 1388.

Global spending on defence total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.

Although the two-finger V for Victory sign is synonymous with Winston Churchill, it actually was the idea of a Belgian refugee in London, Victor De Laveleye.

The doors that cover US nuclear silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.

The first recorded revolution took place at around 2800 BC when people from the Sumerian city of Lagash overthrew bureaucrats who were lining their own pockets but kept raising taxes.

Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war.

Since 1815 there has been 210 interstate wars.

During the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Uxbridge had his horse shot from under him 9 times.

In 1997, the US maintained 13,750 nuclear warheads, 5,546 of them on ballistic missiles.

In 1998, the US spent more than $35 billion on its nuclear weapons programme.

In 1997, the US exported $15,6 billion in arms to developing countries, 54% of which went to non-democratic regimes.

Chemical and biological warfare have been used long before World War 1. During the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC, Spartans used sulphur and pitch to overcome the enemy. During ancient and medieval times, soldiers sometimes threw bodies of plague victims over the walls of besieged cities, or into water wells. During the French and Indian wars in North America (1689-1763), blankets used by smallpox victims were given to American Indians in the hope they would carry the disease.

[The-Z-Man]

Ok that works also. Thanks for pointing that one out lazyprzn.

[Archangel Kid]

The US flag displays 13 stripes - for the original 13 states
ehem.... colonies...

[nt2004]

i wish i was a turtle

[bigdawg_69]

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

does that make ' I Do ' the longest sentence ??

[Jack & Coke]

Well, since the tie goes to the runner...

"I Do." Wins! :)

[Jack & Coke]

Golf the only sport played on the moon - on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.

Bill Klem served the most seasons as major league umpire - 37 years, starting in 1905. He also officated 18 World Series.

The high jump method of jumping head first and landing on the back is called the Fosbury Flop.

The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.

The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America's Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.

Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.

Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.

In 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the top of Everest.

The record for the most Olympic medals ever won is held by Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina. Competing in three Olympics, between 1956 and 1964, she won 18 medals.

The record for the most major league Bbaseball career innings is held by Cy Young, with 7,356 innings.

The first instance of global electronic communications took place in 1871 when news of the Derby winner was telegraphed from London to Calcutta in under 5 minutes.

In 1898, one of the first programmes to be broadcasted on radio was a yacht race that took place in British waters.

Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup soccer and Formula One racing.

Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.

Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

More than 100 million people hold hunting licences.

Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutists, jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799.

Gymnasiums were introduced in 900BC and Greek athletes practised in the nude to the accompaniment of music. They also performed naked at the Olympic Games.

The very first Olympic race, held in 776 BC, was won by Corubus, a chef.

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.

Michael Schumacher is the highest paid sportsman, ahead of Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer. (Not including sponsorship endorsements.)

A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.

Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs' bladders were used as rugby balls.

The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.