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[WendyB]

I'm celebrating my 4th Céline Dion Forum anniversary today

[angeluk2]

Cath's amazing useless facts spamathon!

(please note:spamathon may be too strong a word as it will only last a short while.Consider yourself forewarned )

 

Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."

 

Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on "The Tonight Show" guest couch during a first appearance.

 

Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.

 

Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band.

 

Actor Steve McQueen encouraged his karate teacher to pursue a career in acting. The teacher? Chuck Norris. McQueen is quoted as telling Norris, "If you can't do anything else' there's always acting."

 

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

 

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

 

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

 

The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

 

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

 

The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

 

Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

 

MORE TO FOLLOW>>>>>>>>>

Edited April 15, 2009 at 05:29 PM by angeluk2

[angeluk2]

Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day.

 

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

 

In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

 

A black cow is a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. The term dates from the Roaring Twenties, although it also came to be used to describe a root beer float. Another term for a black cow was a mud fizz.

 

The Ritz cracker was introduced to markets in 1934, but gourmets had to wait until 1953 for the invention of cheese in a can.

 

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.

 

A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.

 

The name of the legendary Lady Godiva's horse - Aethenoth

 

Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

 

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

 

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

 

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

 

Hot water is heavier than cold.

 

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

 

Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 - as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halves of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar).

 

The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - "As Good As It Gets", is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop".

 

Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the "Jaws" movies.

 

MORE TO FOLLOW>>>>>>>>

[angeluk2]

The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

 

A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.

 

Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.

 

Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.

 

"The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

 

The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.

 

Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.

 

Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.

 

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

 

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

 

In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.

 

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

 

In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.

 

Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.

 

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

 

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)

 

Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

 

In July 1934 Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he hit for his 700th career home run.

[angeluk2]

Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.

 

To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky.

 

A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.

 

A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the sun in slightly less than 88 days.

 

A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.

 

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

 

Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.

 

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.(i know you will check this! )

 

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

 

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

 

The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

 

You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.

 

Although your system cannot digest gum like other foods, it won't be stuck inside of you forever. It comes out with other waste your body can't use.

 

In France - Captain Sarret made the first parachute jump from an airplane in 1918.

 

The first paperback book was printed - by Penguin Publishing in 1935.

 

John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July 4.

 

The first wooden shoe comes from the Netherlands. The Netherlands have many seas so people wanted a shoe that kept their feet dry while working outside. The shoes were called klompen and they had been cut of one single piece of wood. Today the klompen are the favorite souvenir for people who visit the Netherlands.

 

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

 

When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down.

 

The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

 

The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.

 

Mount St. Helens dropped 1,313 feet in 1980.

 

There is a prison in Ossining, New York named "Sing Sing."

[angeluk2]

There you go,your fact dose for the day,now don't we all feel better informed?

[Linn92]

Another day has gone byyy

[CelineRules!]

There you go,your fact dose for the day,now don't we all feel better informed?

Indeed, very informative

[Soloni]

ANNNNYYYYOOONNNEEEE::: HHEEEEERRREEE?????

[SensationalCeline]

helllooooooooo!!!!!! Seems I am late though. I liked Cath's information. A lot of that stuff i didn't know. Well, lets say more than half................oh, alright like almost all of it!!!

[SensationalCeline]

Heloooooo Vintage Celine!!!!!! You seem to be everywhere I click today!

 

 

Haha!!! You can't get rid of moi!!

 

It's quiet in here tonight!!

 

x

 

 

I see that! You got on here right when I got off that night!!!!! Rotten luck!

[angeluk2]

Halooooooooooooooooo

[angeluk2]

ha ha he he ha ha ho

[angeluk2]

Breathe you out,breathe you in

[CelineRules!]

Someone's on a Britney high

[angeluk2]

yes!! Iv been listening to nothing but Kelly Clarkson for days so i thought i would have a change

 

How are you?? I was out till about 10.30pm and didnt think anyone was around tonight.

Did you manage to watch it yet??

[CelineRules!]

I thought you wouldn't be around today, since it's wednesday

 

And I did.. you need to check somewhere for my reaction

[kathy4]

hello good morning everyone.

[kathy4]

i went to the fleetwood mac concert last night and i loved it.

[kathy4]

i am sorry that i haven't been on here in awhile.

[kathy4]

anyone here?

[CelineRox]

[CelineRules!]

[CelineRox]

[angeluk2]

[CelineRules!]

[angeluk2]

evening everyone

[CelineRox]

Hiya

[Soloni]

PEOPLE

[VintageCeline]

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh STUPID BANK!!!!!!!!! I HATE banks, I wish everyone could have someway of boycotting ALL banks.

 

 

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!