Friday, June 27, 2008

Stupid Fact Time.

Hooray! time for stupid random "Did you know?" fact time, in STUPID-O-VISION!

The answer cube in a magic eight ball is a icosahedron (20 sides).

Cucumbers are a fruit. And so, technically, pickles are fruit.

In the Pony's Expresses 19-month (1 year, 7 month's, i think.) run, it delivered *clears throat* 34, 753 pieces of mail. Hey! you got MAAAAAAIL!

1 in 20 married Americans will start a love affair this year.

Some Real, weird flubbed headlines: TV Ads Boost Eating of Obese Children by 130%. and: Antwerp Zoo Asks Guests Not to Stare at the Chimps.

During one bout of insanity, King George III of England ended every sentence with the word "peacock" I'm really not sure if that's a word, just a common name of a animal.

One of Michal Dell's(Michal Dell is the founder and CEO of Dell Computers.) first real jobs was to wash dishes in a Chinese restaurant.

The odds of a cosmetic surgery's patient is going to be a woman is 89%.

In Elvis's last months before he died, he ate a average of 65,000 calories per day. (The equivalent of the maximum recommended calorie intake of 26 adult men, or the equivalent of 108 Big Macs.)

55% percent of Americans are registered organ donors.

Their are approximately 240 white "power pellets" in the old Pacman arcade game.

The Roman Candle (the firecracker) was invented in China.

The state of Iowa is bigger than Portugal.

Cap'n Crunch's full name (He has one?) is Horaitio Magellen Crunch.

The Sargasso Sea has no coastline because it's smack dab in the middle of the North-ish Atlantic Ocean.

Gummi Bears were invented in 1922 by Hans Reigel. Its original German name is Gummibäre.

Napoleon may have died of Arsenic! But no one knows how exactly how Arsenic got into his body.

Military dogs in the first and second world wars wore miniature gas masks.

Okay, i don't feel like writing down any more facts. Shows over. This took about an hour with my references as Uncle John's Bathroom Reader and Oh Yikes! History's Grossest, Wackiest Moments. And as this woulden't be a post with out some hmtl junk of some sort, let me show you my current favorite music video:
Pork And Beans