tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40973211683571071802024-08-31T10:48:31.719-07:00Elliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-87778970103378783642011-08-29T19:04:00.000-07:002011-08-31T08:17:55.358-07:001. All regular ants are female<br /> 2. Male ants have wings<br /> 3. Male ants only purposes are to fly around, mate with a queen, and die<br /> 4. Earwigs don't actually go into peoples ears<br /> 5. Grizzly bears can run up to 35 miles per hour<br /> 6. The most gold stored in one place is located in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York<br /> 7. Wall street was named because there used to be a wall there<br /> 8. The stock exchange was started with people meeting under a tree<br /> 9. Majungatholuses were cannibals<br /> 10. The&nbsp;Tyrannosaurus Rex could grow up to 40 feet long<br /> 11. Raptors hunted in packs<br /> 12. The Blue Marlin is the world's fastest fish<br /> 13. A&nbsp;Peregrine Falcon can dive at over 200 miles per hour<br /> 14. The highest rank for the navy is fleet admiral<br /> 15. Edgar Allen Poe was a cadet at West Point until he was expelled in 1831<br /> 16. There are 3 types of UV Radiation: UV A, UV B, and UV C<br /> 17. All UV C radiation is blocked by the earth's atmosphere<br /> 18. The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter<br /> 19. The most abundant liquid in the universe is liquid hydrogen<br /> 20. There are&nbsp;approximately 20 septillion stars in the universe<br /> 21. Liquids are the rarest form of matter in the universe<br /> 22. Mars has a red color because of the iron in the soil<br /> 23. The first U.S attempted overthrow of a foreign nation was by naval agent William Eaton in 1804<br /> 24. The oldest U.S warship is the U.S.S Constitution<br /> 25. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4 in the same year<br /> <br /> Elliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-68557738794088869812011-03-23T11:41:00.000-07:002012-01-13T20:39:48.335-08:001. The world's biggest recorded earthquake was a 9.5 on the Moment Magnitude Scale<br /> <div> 2. The carotid artery carries blood from the heart to the brain</div> <div> 3. A male lion and female tiger offspring is called a liger</div> <div> 4. A male tiger and female lion offspring is called a tigon</div> <div> 5. Megalodon was the prehistoric ancestor to a modern day shark</div> <div> 6. Raptor dinosaurs had feathers</div> <div> 7. Dinosaurs were the prehistoric ancestors to birds</div> <div> 8. Dinosaurs became extinct because of a giant meteor</div> <div> 9. Nanotyrannus was another name for a baby tyrannasaurus rex</div> <div> 10. The first recorded death sentence was in Egypt when a noble accused of practicing magic was ordered to take his own life</div> <div> 11. The ingredient that gets you high in marijuana is THC</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> 13. Harry Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss</div> <div> 14. Harry Houdini took his stage name from famous French magician Harry Houdin</div> <div> 15. Pencils use graphite instead of lead now</div> <div> 16. There is a super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy&nbsp;</div> <div> 17. Jupiter's big red spot is the biggest storm in the solar system</div> <div> 18. Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general</div> <div> 19. The white house has the only zip code in the country that ends in two zeros</div> <div> 20. The average life expectancy for a person in Papa New Guinea is 32 years</div>Elliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-36793809492283196052011-03-22T18:01:00.000-07:002011-03-22T18:01:27.507-07:001. If you stop sweating it means you are severely dehydrated<br /> 2. In 1815 there was a volcano explosion that blocked out the sun in &nbsp;what was called "The year without a summer"<br /> 3. New York was the original capital of the United States<br /> 4. The Americas was discovered by vikings and not Christopher Columbus<br /> 5. America is named for Amerigo Vespucci<br /> 6. Hydrochloric acid can dissolve a body in 8 hours<br /> 7. Everyone in the world has at least 98% alike DNA<br /> 8. Every Jew has enough DNA alike with each other to be 4th cousins<br /> 9, Every single persons DNA can be traced back to a woman in Africa<br /> 10. The Garden of Eden is in Africa<br /> 11. Dolphins will rape you if you are alone in the water<br /> 12. Ben Franklin had a lot of mistresses<br /> 13. The most expensive coin ever sold was the 1932 double eagle 20 dollar gold piece for 7.2 million<br /> 14. The Simpsons is the longest running animation show<br /> 15. The Ford Thunderbird was Motor Trend's first car of the yearElliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-84394013115923607752011-03-19T20:39:00.001-07:002011-03-19T20:39:50.406-07:00I am now in a race for views against the Oberlander blog empireElliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-9131247027945657662011-03-07T19:26:00.000-08:002011-03-07T19:42:16.545-08:001. All known life is carbon based<div>2. Earthworms have 8 hearts</div><div>3. A cockroach can live 8 days with its head cut off before it starves to death</div><div>4. Cats are healthier to eat than dogs</div><div>5. Cats have a lot of protein</div><div>6. The AK-47 stands for Automatic Kalashnikov assault rifle Model 1947</div><div>7. Benjamin Franklin's son was a British governor and was a loyalist that supported Great Britain during the American Revolution</div><div>8. The German Autobahn has no speed limit</div><div>9. The United States money does not go by the gold standard anymore.</div><div>10. Napalm was first created during the Vietnam War by Dow Chemical</div><div>11. LRRP stands for Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol that were deployed in the Vietnam War</div><div>12. The universe is expanding at a huge rate</div><div>13. Soon the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy which is called galactic cannibalism</div><div>14. Temperature is the average kinetic energy of something</div><div>15. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe</div><div>16. Pluto is considered a dwarf planet</div><div>17. Enceladus is a moon of Saturn that has water on it</div><div>18. there is around $1.80 worth of gold in every cell phone</div><div>19. The medical term for a heart attack is a myocardial infraction</div><div>20. The funny bone is actually called the humerus</div><div>21. a marijuana joint is 4 times worse than a cigarette</div><div>22. Cocaine users can get a hole right through the cartilage in the middle of their nose</div><div>23. Facebook is the most visited place each day on the internet</div><div>24. Antimatter is matter but with opposite charges</div><div>25. A positron is just an electron going back in time</div>Elliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-13173536811089564312011-03-03T14:58:00.000-08:002012-02-29T18:30:24.381-08:001. The U.S dropped incendiary bombs on Japan because most of the buildings were made of wood<br /> 2. The U.S Air Force was called the U.S Army Air Corps. during WWII<br /> 3. China didn't have an air force in WWII so U.S pilots were brought in to help defend the air against the Japanese<br /> 4. A blue whales tongue weighs as much as 6 african elephants<br /> 5. Texas was the 28th U.S state<br /> 6. Texas was an independent country before being taken in by the U.S<br /> 7. The tallest man ever was 8 feet 11 inches tall<br /> 8. There was once an ancient race of humans that were 7 and 8 feet tall<br /> 9. Clicking on ads helps increase the revenue of this page<br /> 10. The Germans crashed their planes into U.S bombers<br /> 11. The Germans made the first jet plane<br /> 12. The biggest battle in The War of 1812 was after the war ended<br /> 13. The Germans were building an atomic bomb when they were defeated<br /> 14. Nickola Tesla discovered the way of electricity that we use today<br /> 15. Thomas Edison had the electric chair made to make his way of getting electricity seem better<br /> 16. It takes a supertanker 20 minutes to completely stop<br /> 17. A white hole is like a black hole but it does the opposite thing to matter<br /> 18. The U.S had the gold standard of backing money but they also had the silver standard<br /> 19. People can hack into your computer when you use public wi-fi<br /> 20. The state fish of Hawaii is the <span style="font-style: italic;">humuhumu</span><span id="search"><em>nukunukuspua</em></span><br /> 21. The moon is filled with a lot of valuable gems<br /> 22. Oxygen can be extracted from the dust on the moon<br /> 23. Neutrons can turn into protons<br /> 24. In Shakespearean England people used to not care how they spelled<br /> 25. Shakespeare's plays were published after his death by 2 actor friendsElliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4097321168357107180.post-75691206644854589132011-03-01T11:48:00.001-08:002011-03-02T18:30:19.504-08:001. The Japanese also used midget submarines in the attack on Pearl Harbor but it failed<div>2. Woodrow Wilson is on the 100,000 dollar bill </div><div>3. Albert Einstein was bad at every subject but math and science and almost got expelled from school</div><div>4. Albert Einstein's professor gave bad reports about him so he could not find a job after college</div><div>5. A pocket calculator has more computing power than the first computer which took up a whole room</div><div>6. A perpetual motion machine is not allowed by the first law of thermodynamics</div><div>7. The quantum unit of gravity is the graviton</div><div>8. There are 6 different types of quarks inside of subatomic particles: up quark, down quark, strange quark, charmed quark, top quark, bottom quark</div><div>9. sweet taste buds are located on the tip of the tongue</div><div>10. James Madison is on the 5,000 dollar bill</div><div>11. Salmon P. Chase is on the 10,000 dollar bill</div><div>12. William McKinley is on the 500 dollar bill </div><div>13. It is more dangerous to text and drive than to drink and drive</div><div>14. a google is one followed by 100 zeros</div><div>15. The Doolittle Raid was the first U.S retaliation against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor </div><div>16. The word "School" comes from the Greek word "Schole" which means leisure</div><div>17. A Blue Whale has a belly button</div><div>18. Grover Cleveland is on the 1,000 dollar bill</div><div>19. The 2 dollar bill is still in circulation and can be gotten from the bank</div><div>20. The Saturn V rocket was the tallest rocket ever </div><div>21. The speed of sound is 761 mph</div><div>22. There are 2.51 centimeters in 1 inch</div><div>23. John Hanson was the first real president of the United States</div><div>24. The ratio of weight of a proton to a neutron is 1.001378</div><div>25. "Empty space" is not really empty</div><div>26. There is such a thing as negative energy</div><div>27. Time travel to the future is possible</div><div>28. Time travel to the past is impossible</div><div>29. 14 year olds are allowed to get married in New York</div><div>30. there are around 6 sextillion stars in the universe</div>Elliottwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08615158232533608529noreply@blogger.com0