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September 18, 2008...10:14 am
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September 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm
“A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle”(amusing facts).
September 18, 2008 at 4:09 pm
We need to find a way to stop global warming, our childen may never see a polar bear.
thesis statement
September 18, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Sorry wrong blog!
September 18, 2008 at 4:18 pm
“When Table Tennis was originally created in 1889, it was called Gossima”(wow facts).
September 18, 2008 at 4:31 pm
“12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily”
(tealdragon).
September 18, 2008 at 4:33 pm
“A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds”(tealdragon).
September 18, 2008 at 4:36 pm
“A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove”(tealdragon).
September 18, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with”(100UnbelievableFacts).
September 18, 2008 at 5:56 pm
“The lighter was invented before the match”(100 unbelievable facts ).
September 18, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Ok, here are my coolest facts:
“9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages”( really cool facts).
And for round two
“The first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick”(Really cool facts).
September 18, 2008 at 6:11 pm
“If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee” (InterestingFacts).
September 18, 2008 at 6:15 pm
“Barbie’s full name is barbara millicent roberts” (totally random but somewhat useful trivia and collected facts).
September 18, 2008 at 6:18 pm
OOOO! This one’s the best! You guys always wonder what ring around the rosy’s about? Well NOW YOU’RE GONNA FIND OUT!
“In the nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey…). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell (“pocket full of posies…”). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease (“ashes, ashes, we all fall down”)” (totally random but somewhat useful trivia and collected facts).
September 18, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Ok this is the last one.
“American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in 1stclass” (totally random but somewhat useful trivia and collected facts).
September 18, 2008 at 6:32 pm
“the Olmec indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop” (” The History of Chocolate”).
September 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm
fact one
“If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. ”
fact 2
“Odontophobia is the fear of teeth. “
September 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Sorry :
” The Olmec Indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop” (” The History of Chocolate”).
September 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm
woops bolth from (random facts)
September 18, 2008 at 6:44 pm
“If you are right handed you generally chew your food on the right side of your mouth”(“50 interesting facts”).
September 18, 2008 at 6:46 pm
“Dalmations are born without spots”(“50 Interesting Facts”).
September 18, 2008 at 6:47 pm
” In 1975, Pepsi introduced the Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign where PepsiCo set up a blind tasting between Pepsi-Cola and rival Coca-Cola. During these blind taste tests the majority of participants picked Pepsi as the better tasting of the two soft drinks”(“Pepsi”).
September 18, 2008 at 7:09 pm
“The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime” (“random facts”).
September 18, 2008 at 7:10 pm
“On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on a BigMac Bun” (“random facts”).
September 18, 2008 at 7:11 pm
“Every human spent about 1/2 hour as a single cell” (“random facts”).
September 18, 2008 at 8:06 pm
1 Chinese yuan = 0.146327 U.S. Dollars.
( I chose this fact because in a way it relates to Dragon Wings since it’s about China)
September 18, 2008 at 8:10 pm
(“random facts”)
September 18, 2008 at 8:17 pm
80% of the time Jellyfish Don’t sting you. Generally you swim into their tentacles.
(“SCDNR”)