The Dumbest Stuff YouÕve Ever Heard.
Yes, the dumbest stuff youÕve ever heard! This is for
all you unhealthily curious people out there. From now on you wonÕt have to hear
ÒThatÕs a stupid question!Ó because you wonÕt need to ask a stupid
questionÉEVERÉ
AGAIN!
Bum Bum Buuuuum!
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without
a hunting license.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000
tons.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft
Pinocchio is
Italian for "pine head."
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only
Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally
green.
Smurf toys outsold Star Wars toysÉ Anarchy!
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you
would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the
world.
Every time you lick a stamp you
gain 1/10 of a calorie.
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.
The first fossilized
specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named
Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite
song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,"
by the Beatles.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through
the air.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity
of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour
would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our
sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes.
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.
Escape maps, compasses, and
files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps
inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the
packs of Monopoly money.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every
minute.
Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take
thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.
South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, better known
as "The Cornbread Capitol of the World," has an old ordinance
pertaining to the cooking of this southern staple. The law declares:
"Cornbread isn't cornbread unless it be made correctly. Therefore, all cornbread
must be hereby made in nothing other then a cast iron skillet." Those
found in violation of this ordinance are to be fined one dollar.
In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue
dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began
a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six
years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long
after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made
Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained
married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own
grandpa.
