If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,
but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."

"Detroit" is a French word meaning "strait," a reference to the Detroit River. Antoine La Mothe Sieur de Cadillac, the Frenchman who founded Detroit in 1701, called the la place du detroit, and the pronunciation (day-TWA) got anglicized when the British, then the Americans, took it over.

James Buchanan is the only U.S. President who never married.

"Sleep tight" refered to colonial times, when beds had rope underpinnings to support mattresses. Thery were tightened regularly.

Nebraska is the only state with a one-house (unicameral) legislature.

Pope John XXIII was actually the twenty-first pope to take the name John. John XVI was an antipope, and there never was a John XX.

Jean Baptiste Pont du Sable, a Haitian mulatto, was the first permanent settler of what is now Chicago, establishing a trading post there.

Robert E. Lee never posed for paintings. Paintings of the Civil War general were all done from still photographs.

No one knows where Oregon's name came from.

Sources of GM brand names:

Chevrolet refers to its founders, two French brothers named Arthur and Louis Chevrolet.

Pontiac was named for a Michigan town, which in turn was named for an Ottawa Indian chief.

Buick was named for its founder, David Dunbar Buick.

Cadillac, of course, was named for the Frenchman who founded Detroit.

Saturn was named for the planet, not the god, because Saturn is a different kind of planet (those huge rings). Saturn was meant to be a different kind of division.

GMC Truck. . . Uh, that's pretty obvious.

Hummer is short for "humvee," which refers to the initials referring to the class of vehicle (I don't know what they mean! :o ).

Gone but not forgotten:

Oldsmobile was named for its founder Ransom Eli Olds, who later founded REO (his initials).

LaSalle was named for rthe French explorer who paddled down the Mississippi River in 1682.

Oldsmobile was named for its founder Ransom Eli Olds, who later founded REO (his initials).



And was the namesake for REO Speedwagon.

Also one again, the only state capital without a McDonalds is Montpelier, VT.

Nintendo originally manufactured playing cards before moving on to making video games.

Volkswagen means "people's car".


Play-Doh was originally invented to serve as a wallpaper cleaner.

"Detroit" is a French word meaning "strait," a reference to the Detroit River. Antoine La Mothe Sieur de Cadillac, the Frenchman who founded Detroit in 1701, called the la place du detroit, and the pronunciation (day-TWA) got anglicized when the British, then the Americans, took it over.

James Buchanan is the only U.S. President who never married.

"Sleep tight" refered to colonial times, when beds had rope underpinnings to support mattresses. Thery were tightened regularly.

Nebraska is the only state with a one-house (unicameral) legislature.

Pope John XXIII was actually the twenty-first pope to take the name John. John XVI was an antipope, and there never was a John XX.

Jean Baptiste Pont du Sable, a Haitian mulatto, was the first permanent settler of what is now Chicago, establishing a trading post there.

Robert E. Lee never posed for paintings. Paintings of the Civil War general were all done from still photographs.

No one knows where Oregon's name came from.
I knew the third one abt "sleep tight"...i like these!

Stewardess is the longest word that can be typed on the entire left side of the keyboard. Try it - pretty neat!

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

I learned in one of my college biology courses that over the course of one night a person swallows like five spiders. This is no joke, I'm afraid. Not to mention totally gross. :eek: :barf:

I didn't care to know that my mother and stepfather get "intimate" sunday nights.

welcome to my home :lol:

I didn't care to know that my mother and stepfather get "intimate" sunday nights.

welcome to my home :lol:
:lol: aww damn. need any earplugs?

Play-Doh was originally invented to serve as a wallpaper cleaner.
OMG that inspires me


Kid : MOMMYYYYY WHERE'S MY PLAY DOH?
'

MOm : Honey, IM using to clean the wallpaper, Ill get you some more

The owl is the only animal that will eat a skunk.

Frost will only occur on a clear morning. If it is overcast, none.

If it is windy after sunset it will be windy the next day.

OMG that inspires me


Kid : MOMMYYYYY WHERE'S MY PLAY DOH?
'

MOm : Honey, IM using to clean the wallpaper, Ill get you some more

Jack, that sounds like a personal experience!

Wow those are actually pretty interesting

Wow those are actually pretty interesting
:nod:

Ha, they have an interesting fact er...an "offbeat oddity" in every page of my assignment book. I shall type them all up for you because I have nothing else better to do :)



The State of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long

Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Afacama Desert in Chile

footprints left on the moon by astronauts will remain visible for at least ten million years

a person living to age 75 will have slept about 220,000 hours, or about 23 years

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight

They have square watermelons in Japan. They're grown in boxes to make them stack better.

A drivable sofa? Features include a pizza pan steering wheel, cola can brake pedal, and a coffee table.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

Mel Blanc, the man who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

One species of hummingbird weighs less than a penny. (Just like Lindsay Lohan!!!!!...erm okay, I added that one in myself...)

The word "set" has the highest number of seperate definitions in the English language;192.

Slugs have four noses.

"ough" can be pronounced eight different ways in the English language.

Sharks can live up to 100 years.

Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

The Ski-doo snowmobile was originally supposed to be called the Ski-dog; there was a typo.

You would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun produces.

An underground mushroom in Oregon is 3.5 miles across and covers an area larger than 16,000 football fields.

A snail could crawl along a sharp edge without getting cut because its slime protects its body.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

The California state flag was originally supposed to feature a pear, not a bear.

Ursalia and Efisga were two of the many suggested names for the country that became the Dominion of Canada.

Fish can't blink, they don't have eyelids.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

Approximately 75 acres of pizza are consumed in the U.S. every day.

There arn't any billboards in the state of Vermont.

"Sneaker" was first used to describe a rubber-soled tennis shoe in 1878.

It's supposedly impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The largest recorded snowflake, 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, fell in Montana in 1887.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is a tiny sonic boom.

An elephant will extract its own infected tooth using tree branches and sharp rocks as tools.

A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.

When Canada's new 1987 one-dollar coin design went missing, the Mint replaced the original canoeing fur traders with a loon.

Koalas are the only animals besides humans and other primates that have fingerprints.

A fly flies slower when the sun is behind the clouds than when it's sunny.

The Sahara Desert in Africa is approximately the same size as the U.S.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

There are 200 million insects for every human.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

The latest record for cramming people into a Volkswagon Beetle is 25, set by Austrians in 2000.

Starfish have one eye at the end of each leg.

The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students enrolled in 2002.

An octopus has three hearts.

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in each gallon of seawater.

Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.




Chh, yeah. You'd have to be pretty bored...

When Canada's new 1987 one-dollar coin design went missing, the Mint replaced the original canoeing fur traders with a loon.

The reason for this is because the mints that were used in the origianal coin was either lost or stolen, and they didn't want people using it to print the dollar coin, so they went with the loon (aka looney).

Chewing gum was invented by accident. The chicle compound in gum was supposed to be a substitute for rubber.

Jack, that sounds like a personal experience!
LOL its not

Ha, they have an interesting fact er...an "offbeat oddity" in every page of my assignment book. I shall type them all up for you because I have nothing else better to do :)



The State of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long

Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Afacama Desert in Chile

footprints left on the moon by astronauts will remain visible for at least ten million years

a person living to age 75 will have slept about 220,000 hours, or about 23 years

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight

They have square watermelons in Japan. They're grown in boxes to make them stack better.

A drivable sofa? Features include a pizza pan steering wheel, cola can brake pedal, and a coffee table.

There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.

Mel Blanc, the man who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

One species of hummingbird weighs less than a penny. (Just like Lindsay Lohan!!!!!...erm okay, I added that one in myself...)

The word "set" has the highest number of seperate definitions in the English language;192.

Slugs have four noses.

"ough" can be pronounced eight different ways in the English language.

Sharks can live up to 100 years.

Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

The Ski-doo snowmobile was originally supposed to be called the Ski-dog; there was a typo.

You would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun produces.

An underground mushroom in Oregon is 3.5 miles across and covers an area larger than 16,000 football fields.

A snail could crawl along a sharp edge without getting cut because its slime protects its body.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

The California state flag was originally supposed to feature a pear, not a bear.

Ursalia and Efisga were two of the many suggested names for the country that became the Dominion of Canada.

Fish can't blink, they don't have eyelids.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

Approximately 75 acres of pizza are consumed in the U.S. every day.

There arn't any billboards in the state of Vermont.

"Sneaker" was first used to describe a rubber-soled tennis shoe in 1878.

It's supposedly impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The largest recorded snowflake, 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, fell in Montana in 1887.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is a tiny sonic boom.

An elephant will extract its own infected tooth using tree branches and sharp rocks as tools.

A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.

When Canada's new 1987 one-dollar coin design went missing, the Mint replaced the original canoeing fur traders with a loon.

Koalas are the only animals besides humans and other primates that have fingerprints.

A fly flies slower when the sun is behind the clouds than when it's sunny.

The Sahara Desert in Africa is approximately the same size as the U.S.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

There are 200 million insects for every human.

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

The latest record for cramming people into a Volkswagon Beetle is 25, set by Austrians in 2000.

Starfish have one eye at the end of each leg.

The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students enrolled in 2002.

An octopus has three hearts.

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in each gallon of seawater.

Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.




Chh, yeah. You'd have to be pretty bored...
I love stuff like this. You all have posted some interesting stuff. BTW, I knew the one abt the cockroach. A long long long time ago (back in the olden dayz) a friend of mine did that. He took the head off of a cockroach and that thing was moving around like nothing had happened!!!!:eek:

A long long long time ago (back in the olden dayz) a friend of mine did that. He took the head off of a cockroach and that thing was moving around like nothing had happened!!!!:eek:


:barf:

A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.

I've had days like that.

Three states have no counties - Alaska (formerly divided into court districts), Connecticut (which abolished county government in 1961, though the old counties remain on the maps), and Louisiana (divided into parishes).

Three states have no counties - Alaska (formerly divided into court districts), Connecticut (which abolished county government in 1961, though the old counties remain on the maps), and Louisiana (divided into parishes).
Hmmmm, interesting. :wave:

1. Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

2. The only other president buried in Arlington: William Howard Taft.

3. The only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper: Woodrow Wilson, who was laid to rest in the National Cathedral.

4. The only president buried on the grounds of a state capitol: James Polk in Nashville, Tenn.

5. The only presidents buried together: John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams are in a basement crypt in Quincy, Mass.

6. The two presidents who died on the same day: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died July 4, 1826.

7. The states with the most presidential burial sites: Ohio and Virginia (tie).


Death trivia

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.

In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.

When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously - it can kill you.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Orange County, California. Number one is heart disease.

Both of James Madison's Vice Presidents - George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry - died in office, the first two to do so.

As governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry concocted a legislative district map that ensured a majority in his party for the state legislature. The districts were shaped like salamanders, whic hwere calleed "Gerry manders"- the term "gerrymandering" refers to this practice to this day.

John Tyler was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives after having been President of the United States; John Breckenridge fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War after having served as Vice President of the United States.

William Howard Taft once got stuck in the White House bathtub.

It takes water 2 hours to reach yer vocal folds :D

It takes water 2 hours to reach yer vocal folds :D
WTF?????

Man, i cant get over how many of these i actually know! Pretty cool thread Irene! Btw, the "Indian" word that Canada ( As per one of your posts in the thread ) is named for was actually pronounced "Kanata" ( Iroquoian for Village ), but the French Explorer Jacques Cartier took it to mean the entire country, and , Frankofied the spelling/pronunciation to Canada !

George Washington was the first President to be on a postage stamp.

John Adams was the first President to live in the White House. Mrs. Adams hung her wash in the East Room.

Thomas Jefferson was the first President to be inaugurated in Washington, DC. and he grew the first tomatoes in America. He was also the first President to shake hands instead of bow.

James Madison was the first President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches, every day.

Andrew Jackson was the first President to ride on a train.

Millard Fillmore was the first President to have a bathtub with running water. He was also the first President to have a stove in the White House.

Rutherford B. Hayes was the first President to have a telephone in the White House.

Benjamin Harrison was the first President to have a Christmas Tree in the White House.

Abraham Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.

Andrew Johnson never went to school. His wife taught him to read and write.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to ride in a car. He was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize. He received it in 1906 for helping to settle the Russo-Japanese War.

William Howard Taft was the first President to have a car at the White House. He was also the first President to throw out the first ball at the beginning of the Major League Baseball season in 1910.

Woodrow Wilson was the first President to hold regular news briefings.

Calvin Coolidge was the first President to make a radio broadcast. He's also the 2nd Cousin of actor Orson Bean.

Herbert Hoover's son Alan had pet alligators that meandered around the White House.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first to appear on television when he opened the New York World's Fair in 1939. He was the first President to appoint a woman, Frances Perkins, as a Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor.) He was also the first President to have a Presidential plane.

John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected President. He was also the first President who was a Boy Scout.

The first President to resign from office was Richard Milhous Nixon.


Ronald Reagan was the first President to have been divorced and the first to wear contact lens.

Bill Clinton was the first President to be a Rhodes Scholar.


Maine is the only state with one syllable

Q is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in the name of a state.

Before they became President, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan all appeared on What's My Line? Carter and Ford as contestants and Reagan as a panelist

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Alexander Graham Bell drew the first plans for the telephone on the kitchen table of his home in Brantford Ontario Canada ( Though he later perfected it in the USA )
In August 1876, Bell made the first long distance telephone call from Brantford to Paris Ontario Can.
Bell designed the first airplane ( Named Silver Dart ) to be flown in the British Commonwealth near his Summer Home in Baddeck Nova Scotia, 23rd of February, 1909
The Mclaughlin Carriage Company of Oshawa Ontario began building Buicks under licence in 1907 , thus founding GM of Canada
The Ford Motors "Edsel", which went down as one of historys worst marketing flops was named after Edsel B Ford, only child of Henry Ford, founder of the company....When stuck for a name , the builders asked poetess Marianne Moore to come up with some names for the car, she came up with "Intelligent Bullet", "Pastelogram" and "Utopian Turtletop", among others....compared to those, I guess Edsel wasnt such a bad choice after all! :rolleyes:

The Ford Motors "Edsel", which went down as one of historys worst marketing flops was named after Edsel B Ford, only child of Henry Ford, founder of the company....When stuck for a name , the builders asked poetess Marianne Moore to come up with some names for the car, she came up with "Intelligent Bullet", "Pastelogram" and "Utopian Turtletop", among others....compared to those, I guess Edsel wasnt such a bad choice after all![/COLOR] :rolleyes:

Also suggested by Moore was "Merkur," German for Mercury, used for European Fords sold in America (the XR4 and the Scorpio) in the eighties.

Also suggested by Moore was "Merkur," German for Mercury, used for European Fords sold in America (the XR4 and the Scorpio) in the eighties.
Yup , and a rather freaky looking car it was! :lol:

I kind of liked it.

It was called the Ford Sierra in Europe, but GMC Truck had the North American rights to that name.

I kind of liked it too....but, it was freaky...in a cool sort of way ( Like a VW )
speaking of which, I added a bunch of new pics in the VW thread

George Washington was the first President to be on a postage stamp.

John Adams was the first President to live in the White House. Mrs. Adams hung her wash in the East Room.

Thomas Jefferson was the first President to be inaugurated in Washington, DC. and he grew the first tomatoes in America. He was also the first President to shake hands instead of bow.

James Madison was the first President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches, every day.

Andrew Jackson was the first President to ride on a train.

Millard Fillmore was the first President to have a bathtub with running water. He was also the first President to have a stove in the White House.

Rutherford B. Hayes was the first President to have a telephone in the White House.

Benjamin Harrison was the first President to have a Christmas Tree in the White House.

Abraham Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.

Andrew Johnson never went to school. His wife taught him to read and write.

Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to ride in a car. He was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize. He received it in 1906 for helping to settle the Russo-Japanese War.

William Howard Taft was the first President to have a car at the White House. He was also the first President to throw out the first ball at the beginning of the Major League Baseball season in 1910.

Woodrow Wilson was the first President to hold regular news briefings.

Calvin Coolidge was the first President to make a radio broadcast. He's also the 2nd Cousin of actor Orson Bean.

Herbert Hoover's son Alan had pet alligators that meandered around the White House.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first to appear on television when he opened the New York World's Fair in 1939. He was the first President to appoint a woman, Frances Perkins, as a Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor.) He was also the first President to have a Presidential plane.

John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected President. He was also the first President who was a Boy Scout.

The first President to resign from office was Richard Milhous Nixon.


Ronald Reagan was the first President to have been divorced and the first to wear contact lens.

Bill Clinton was the first President to be a Rhodes Scholar.


Maine is the only state with one syllable

Q is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in the name of a state.

Before they became President, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan all appeared on What's My Line? Carter and Ford as contestants and Reagan as a panelist

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
We all seem to have enjoyed posting tidbits abt presidents. :wave:

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Yeah, OK, but what about the humans? The question of which TV sitcom was the first to feature a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed (rather than twin beds) has been asked many times. For years Florence Henderson claimed that Mike (Robert Reed) & Carol (Florence Henderson) Brady were the first. Then she announced that she was incorrect; it was Herman & Lily Munster. The correct answer: The first time a sitcom husband and wife got in the same bed was on January 17, 1955 when Fred (William Frawley) & Ethel (Vivian Vance) Mertz demonstrated their unique way to cope with a sagging mattress in the "I Love Lucy" episode entitled "First Stop." Many people reject this account as Fred was pretty much a prisoner of the bed and it was a one-time occurrence. The first time a couple shared a bed on a regular basis came nearly a decade later on September 17 1964 when Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) and Darrin Stephens (Dick York) went on their honeymoon (beating Herman & Lily to the sheets). Samantha & Darrin (both Darrins) continued to share a common bed throughout the eight years "Bewitched" ran on ABC. I've been told it was actually Mark Kay and Johnny before Fred and Ethel. I'm sure Mary Kay and Johnny is long gone to film heaven, but maybe there's a pic floating around.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

But why is bubble gum pink? Bubble gum is pink because when the big moment arrived, when destiny came calling on Walter Diemer, pink was the one and only shade of food coloring he had nearby.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Kool-Aid was invented by an eleven year old boy in his mother's kitchen.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Facts about WWII


Hitler and Eva Braun are buried under a garbage dump in what was East Germany. (proper I'd think)

Hitler signed his last order with a blue crayon.


The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was LtGen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. So much for allies.

The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress)

More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions your chance of being killed was 71%.

When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).

The US Army had more ships than the US Navy.

The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, 2 armor divisions, and 11 paratroop divisions. None of them were capable of airborne operations. The German Army had paratroops who WERE capable of airborne operations. Go figure.

When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore was 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants.

Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.

German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA.

Sherlock Holmes was loosely based on Dr. Joseph Bell a Dr. that Arthur Conan Doyle used to know.

Pink lemonade was reportedly created when a carnival worker mixed his lemonade in a tub of water that had previously used to wash out red flannel underwear!!!!! ( Ive heard it's true but......YUCK!! )

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone by accident, his original idea had been to create a machine to communicate with the deaf. ( Bell's father was a teacher to the deaf , and Bell's deaf wife, had been one of his father's students. )

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.......oops that's an old song, sorry! ;)

Bell also invented a machine to try and find bullets in a human body. It was used to attempt to locate a bullet lodged in the body of President James Garfield in 1881 after he was shot. Doctors weakened Garfield tryign to retrieve the bullet with their unsanitary equipment, and he died of an infection two months short of his fiftieth birthday.

Ironically, the bullet didn't need to be removed. Garfield's body manufactured a cyst around it - a cocoon of sorts - rendering it harmless.

:eek2:

Facts about WWII


Hitler and Eva Braun are buried under a garbage dump in what was East Germany. (proper I'd think)

Hitler signed his last order with a blue crayon.


The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was LtGen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. So much for allies.

The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress)

More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions your chance of being killed was 71%.

When allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).

The US Army had more ships than the US Navy.

The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, 2 armor divisions, and 11 paratroop divisions. None of them were capable of airborne operations. The German Army had paratroops who WERE capable of airborne operations. Go figure.

When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore was 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants.

Among the first "Germans" captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.

German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA.

Pope Benedict XVI is the only pope to be held as a prisoner of war by the U.S. Army. As Joseph Ratzinger, he was an underage gunner drafted by the Wehrmacht. When the Americans came, he promptly left his anti-aircraft gun and gave himself up to the Americans.

Pope John XXIII was the first pope to take the name John since 1334. A renegade bishop had called himself Pope John XXIII in the fifteenth century, but he was an antipope, a pirate and a murderer. John XXII, who died in 1334, was a Frenchman who ruled from Avignon, not Rome, and had been a heretic who argued that the Church was entitled to as much material wealth as it wanted. By 1958, when Angelo Roncalli was chosen to be the Holy Father, the name had been thought to be unusable. The new pope became John XXIII in honor of his father, Giovanni (Italian for John) Roncalli, John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist, who cried on Christ's breast at the Last Supper.