Random Facts.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 16, 2007 10:18 am

Gilligan's Island was located at 10 degrees longitude and 140 degrees latitude

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 16, 2007 10:22 am

The US Senate Restaurant was required by law to serve the same meal every day...Yankee Bean soup.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 17, 2007 12:13 am

During WWII, German sub U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 17, 2007 12:30 am

If your Doctor tests you for Scarlett Fever, he is giving you a "Dick Test"

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 17, 2007 8:14 am

There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of a chess game on each side of the board

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 17, 2007 8:20 am

No word in the English language rhymes with month

drunkpirate66 · Post by **drunkpirate66** » June 17, 2007 10:24 am

CaptainP wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month

P is wicked smaaaht!

horseyparrot · Post by **horseyparrot** » June 17, 2007 6:46 pm

CaptainP wrote:There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of a chess game on each side of the board

No wonder it frustrated the cr*p outta me! my dear husband was teaching me, and I kept asking him questions every move. Too many to choose from!

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » June 18, 2007 7:17 am

Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt.

Bubbaphan · Post by **Bubbaphan** » June 18, 2007 12:58 pm

CaptainP wrote:Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt.

So if your shaker gets lost...what, lick your eyeballs?

Bubbaphan · Post by **Bubbaphan** » June 18, 2007 1:05 pm

LaTda! wrote:
CaptainP wrote:The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
I NEED to see a video of this

Will this do?

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » July 4, 2007 9:19 am

Bubbaphan wrote:
CaptainP wrote:Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt.
So if your shaker gets lost...what, lick your eyeballs?

My tongue is long, but not THAT long...

I can only get halfway up my nose

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » July 4, 2007 12:15 pm

CaptainP wrote:Gilligan's Island was located at 10 degrees longitude and 140 degrees latitude

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Latitude measures North-South from the Equator and only goes to 90 degrees and Longitude measures East-West from the Prime Meridian and goes up to 180 degrees.

What you have would put it somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and it would be really really really cold, as opposed to somewhere in the South Pacific if it's switched.

pojo · Post by **pojo** » July 4, 2007 12:45 pm

Check this out in Hoot..... Along with JB,
Delaney played a Soccer Player
Carl Hiaasen was Muckle's Assistant (he was the author of the Book)

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » July 4, 2007 1:11 pm

Timothy Matlock wrote the Declaration of Independence.

...wrote, as in put the pen to the paper.

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » July 4, 2007 1:19 pm

CaptainP wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month

I see your unit of time and raise you three colors: purple, silver, and orange.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » July 5, 2007 10:14 am

bravedave wrote:
CaptainP wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month
I see your unit of time and raise you three colors: purple, silver, and orange.

Roses are Red
Violets are Purple
Sugar is sweet
and so is mayple Surple.

Roger Miller

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » July 5, 2007 10:46 am

Spamwas introduced on this date in 1937.
So grab a spork and sing along...

The Vikings wrote:Spam spam spam spam.
Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam.
Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Spam spam spam spam!

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » July 5, 2007 10:51 am

3 of the first 5 US Presidents died on the 4th of July

Thomas Jefferson AND John Adams in 1826
James Monroe in 1831

None have died on this date since

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » July 6, 2007 11:54 am

John Wise made the first airmail delivery in the United States in 1859 via balloon. He was also responsible for a number of othere "firsts":

His rifle shot at Confederate troops from his balloon on 25 July 1861 is credited as the first airborne hostile shot in military history.

He was the first to observe the jet stream, noting there was a "great river of air which always blows from west to east".

In 1838 he developed a balloon that if ruptured or deflated when aloft would collapse to form a parachute (the bottom half would fold upwards into the top half to form the classic parachute shape) which would allow the occupants of the basket to descend without injury or loss of life. Although the idea was not original, Wise was the first to build working version and the first to demonstrate its use.

On 28 September 1879, aged 71, he disappeared with a passenger on a trip in high winds from East St. Louis, Illinois over Lake Michigan. No trace of Wise, the passenger or the balloon have ever been found. ("Somewhere... over the rainbow...")