1. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)
19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
21. Pearls melt in vinegar.
22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
25. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm)
26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
29. Butterflies taste with their feet.
30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
34. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
37. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)
38. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
39. A snail can sleep for three years.
40. No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'
41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
44. All polar bears are left handed.
45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
46. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
48. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Facts about Tickling
Tickling is an act of evoking involuntary laughter by touching a part of the body.
Some parts of the body are more ticklish than the others, the reason for which is still unknown. When used in sexual fetishism, the act of tickling is called as "tickle torture". Research by Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London found that robotic arms used to tickle people are just as effective as human arms. Men and women are just as "ticklish". But a few studies suggest that, men may be slightly more ticklish than women. Research headed by Dr M Blagrove from the University of Wales in Swansea shows that the normal tickling response may be absent in those with schizophrenia. Tickling was used as a torture by the ancient Romans. The most surprising feature that can be experimented personally is that if one tickles oneself, there is no such stimulation or laughter.
Some parts of the body are more ticklish than the others, the reason for which is still unknown. When used in sexual fetishism, the act of tickling is called as "tickle torture". Research by Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London found that robotic arms used to tickle people are just as effective as human arms. Men and women are just as "ticklish". But a few studies suggest that, men may be slightly more ticklish than women. Research headed by Dr M Blagrove from the University of Wales in Swansea shows that the normal tickling response may be absent in those with schizophrenia. Tickling was used as a torture by the ancient Romans. The most surprising feature that can be experimented personally is that if one tickles oneself, there is no such stimulation or laughter.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Top selling games for the Xbox 360
1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Gears of War
4. Gears of War 2
5. Grand Theft Auto IV
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
7. Call of Duty: World at War
8. Halo 3: ODST
9. Forza Motorsport 2
10. Fable II
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Gears of War
4. Gears of War 2
5. Grand Theft Auto IV
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
7. Call of Duty: World at War
8. Halo 3: ODST
9. Forza Motorsport 2
10. Fable II
Today's hot topics
100 Things to do with your kid in New York
- Visit the NY Hall of Science
- Go on an audition just for the heck of it
- Wave to the cameras on The Today Show
- Have tea at the Plaza
- Ride the Shark Boat
- Climb the Statue of Liberty
- Ride the row boats in Central Park
- Go to Dylan's Candy Bar
- Go to Economy Candy
- Get locked up at the Police Museum
- Go kayaking on the hudson
- Take the ferry to Sandy Hook beach
- Ride a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park
- Have dim sum in Brooklyn's Chinatown
- Go hiking in the Staten Island Greenbelt
- See the new Liberty Science Center
- Go fishing in the East River
- Go on a fishing boat from Sheepshead Bay
- See the money train at the Transit Museum
- Go to the Brooklyn Children's Museum
- Get a taste of country life at the Queens Farm Museum
- Ride on a tug boat
- Sail on the historic schooner Pioneer
- Sail in the hudson
- Take a helicopter ride
- ride the Cyclone before it's gone
- Grab the ring at the Coney Island carousel
- Spend my wad at Dave and Buster's Arcade
- march in the Mermaid Parade
- Go to a Brooklyn Cyclone's game
- Fulfill a child's wish through operation santa claus
- See the ballet
- Watch a dress rehearsal of an opera at the Met
- Sleep over at the Bronx Zoo
- See the unicorns at the Cloisters
- Go horseback riding
- Go sledding in Central Park
- Cross-country ski down a city street
- Bike across the Brooklyn Bridge and get ice cream at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
- Take the Roosevelt Island Tram
- See the piano dancers at FAO
- Visit the Sony Wonder Technology Lab
- Children's Museum of Manhattan
- Children's Museum of the Arts
- Sketch at Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Stargaze at the Hayden Planetarium
- See the rest of the AMNH after the dinosaurs and mammals
- Visit the top of the Empire State Building
- Take an art class at the MoMA
- Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten Island
- Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Holiday Train Show at NY Botanical Garden
- Check out the Queens Zoo
- See the wandering wallabies at the Prospect Park Zoo
- Watch a movie under the stars
- Madame Tussauds
- Try all the flavors at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
- Look up relatives in Ellis Island
- Visit new waterside playground in Chelsea
- Get colonial at the Fraunces Tavern Museum
- Do a medieval workshop at Cathedral of St John the Divine
- The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- See the rollerbladers perform in Central Park (just West of the Sheep's Meadow)
- Fly a kite on the Sheep Meadow
- See Shakespeare in the Park
- Going biking on Governor's Island
- Find the secret Downing Street Playground in the Village
- Explore Battery Park City Parks from the South Cove to Penny Park
- Ride the Staten Island Ferry
- Have knishes and egg creams at Yonah Schimmel's
- See the giant buddha in the Mahayana temple
- The Skyscraper Museum
- Play vintage video games at The Museum of Moving Image
- The Museum of the American Indian
- Buy comic books at Forbidden Planet
- Free concert in Madison Square Park and Get lunch at the Shake Shack
- Buy flowers from the flower district
- Buy wholesale toys in the wholesale district (27th and 6th)
- Swing Clubs at the Chelsea Piers Driving Range
- Climb the rock wall on Broadway
- Visit the Science Barge
- Visit the Intrepid
- Test out the Whispering Gallery at Grand Central
- Coney Island Arcade
- Cook our own food in a Korean restaurant
- Sail boats on the boat pond in Central park
- Billy Johnson Rustic Playground in Central Park
- Explore Belvedere Castle
- Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park
- Ride the carousel in Bryant park
- See the to scale panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art
- Get Egyptian at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
- See the new Greeks and Romans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Go ice skating in Prospect Park
- Riverbank State Park carousel
- See the holiday lights in Dyker Heights
- Take a trapeze lesson
- See the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloons get inflated
- Watch the circus elephants march into town
- Swim in the floating barge pool
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Today
Today I went to a safari.
Had a blowout on the highway.
Took 2 hours to find a tire place.
Found tire place.
Got tire and drove to safari.
Safari closed for unknown reasons.
>my face when
Had a blowout on the highway.
Took 2 hours to find a tire place.
Found tire place.
Got tire and drove to safari.
Safari closed for unknown reasons.
>my face when
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