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<the random archive>
October Archive
Contrary to popular belief, tapping on watermelons to determine ripness is not a surefire way to pick a good watermelon. In fact, one simple way you can tell if a watermelon is ripe or not is by looking to see if the bottom is yellow.
20% of passengers develop a cold a week after flying.
And old saying goes: "there are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics."
If you break apart the word "assume", what do you get? Assuming makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me". Yup, that's just about self-explanatory.
The European Commission of the EU has recently formally declared that all feta cheese will be "feta" only if it was made in specific parts of Greece. (other products with the same protection: parma ham and champagne)
So much for "feta" cheese from Denmark!
The French-Indian War preceding the Revolutionary War was not directly between the French and Indians. The war was a conflict between the French and British over the Ohio River Valley that sparked a world war known in Europe as the "Seven Years War"—which lasted longer than seven years!
Did you know that lobster is actually HEALTHY and LOW in cholesterol?
The word 'naturalist' in English is spelled in French as 'nudist'
For all those PSAT takers out there, at least you can
comfort yourself with the knowledge that there are three useful anagrams
for the word “PSAT”-
pats
taps
past
Is “carex” a word? Apparently so, it’s a type of marsh plant.
November Archive
Research has it that some male sheep prove to be homosexual.
As of November 18, the new Segway personal transporter went on sale to the general public.
Children of people who have reached 100 years of age are less likely to suffer from a number of cardiovascular diseases.
Bop an alligator's nose to release anything it may have in its mouth (a limb, for e.g.).
Contrary to popular belief, the famous distress message "SOS" does not actually stand for anything.
For marijuana to be lethal, a 160 lbs person
would have to smoke 900 joints in one sitting.
-kristina lin
The fastest insect is the deer botfly, which can reach 36mph (58km/h) in a sustained burst of speed.
The buzzing noise made by female mosquitoes (the ones that bite you!) in flight serves as a signal to attract a mate.
Snakes coil before they strike and can strike at a distance approx. half their length.
The "coco de mer", or "double coconut palm", of Seychelles (an island north of Madacascar) bears the largest seed of all plants: 60 lbs (27 kg)!
There is enough salt in the world's oceans to cover all the continents with a layer 490ft (150m) thick.
Nicholas Brown and Elihu Yale were merchants that may have had a lucrative slave trading business during the 1600/1700s.
US budget surplus as of 9/20/01:
$127 Billion
US budget deficit as of 9/20/02: $159 Billion
Where'd all that money go???
