'Did Ya' know' is a place where you can get some wierd/crazy/whatever fact! How ineresting.
Did Ya' know that...
More than 2,500 cover versions of The Beatles' "Yesterday" exist, making it the most recorded song in history.
A human can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions.
If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
When a man died in ancient Egypt, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes. {(*MUD WRESTLING!!*}) (now wouldn't ya' just love to see that, boys?
The two-minute storm in the opening of Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) took ten special effects artists over a year to complete. This was the last Disney animated feature to be painted by hand.
The Popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left a container of soda and a stirrer outside overnight, and in the morning discovered them frozen together.
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
Check out these wierd/ineterting town names, in the U.S: Missouri: 'Useful'
Oklahoma: 'Nowhere'
Colorado: 'No Name'
Alabama: 'Muck City'
Arizona: 'Bumble Bee', 'Chloride', 'Floss', 'Nothing', 'Show Low', 'Why', 'Winkleman'
Arkansas: 'Hooker', 'Okay', 'Strawberry', 'Toad Suck', 'Pocahontas
California: 'Avocado', 'Bummerville', 'Cactus', 'Deadman Crossing', 'Deadwood', 'Fort Dick', 'Freedom', 'Hardy', 'Last Chance', 'Rainbow', 'You Bet', 'Yreka Zzyzx', 'Hacienda Del Florasol (Translation = Ranch of the Sun Flower)'
Colorado: 'Hygiene'
Delaware: 'Little Heaven'
Florida: 'Mayo', 'Weeki Wachee'
Georgia: 'Jinks'
Illinois: 'Kickapoo', 'Normal', 'Paw Paw', 'Roachtown', 'Sandwich'
Indiana: 'Acme' (Loony Toons anyone?), 'Buddha' (Does Blink182 says something to you?), 'French Lick'
Iowa: 'Gravity', 'Manly'
Kansas: 'Admire', 'Buttermilk', 'Denmark', 'Cuba', 'Holland', 'Rome' (What's up with all the countries stuff eh?!)
Kentucky: 'Do Stop', 'Monkey's Eyebrow' (what the...??), 'Ogle' (poor, poor ppl...)
Louisiana: 'Cut-Off', 'Grosse Tete'
Maryland: 'Accident', 'Boring', 'Cockeysville' (just take off the 'ey' and there you have it!)
Massachusetts: 'Gay Head', 'Mashpee', 'Ware (I'm from Ware?)' Ppl of Massachusetts, i feel sorry for you. really.
Nevada: 'Jackpot' (yeeeahhh!!)
New Hampshire: 'Hell Hollow' (lol!!)
New Mexico: 'Elephant Butte', 'Truth or Consequences'
Oklahoma: 'Slaughterville' (how's your friday the 13th?)
Pennsylvania: 'Fear Not', 'Moon (On the border of the Pittsburgh Int'l Airport - "Fly me to the moon..."), 'Panic', 'Virginville'
South Carolina: 'Coward', 'Townville' (.."the city of townsville"...)
South Dakota: 'Oral' (*ahhm...*), 'Wood'
Texas: 'Bacon'
Virginia: 'Butts', 'Needmore', 'Nuttsville', 'Peach Bottom'
Washington: 'Walla Walla' (Isn't that an Offspring song?)
