I'm Bored....So Here Are 25 Random Facts

[jonesbeach10]

01 At the beginning of his career, Sherlock Holmes used cocaine

02 After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it was dismantled, and rebuilt as a barn.

03 The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets and 1792 steps

04 Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.

05 Life Savers™ candy was produced by a chocolate maker, to make up for the low chocolate sales in the summer.

06 The brain becomes inflamed with the condition encephalitis.

07 The first railroad bridge over the Mississippi River ran between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa.

08 The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

09 In a matter of seconds Zerah Colburn once correctly calculated the amound of seconds which had gone by since the birth of Christ.

10 An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.

11 Elvis Presley was named a ‘Special Federal Narcotics Agent’ by Richard Nixon.

12 A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.

13 Shells were once used as currency in Africa

14 George Washington was the only president never to live in the District of Columbia.

15 Rome is also known as The Eternal City.

16 Two cups of butter is equal to one pound.

17 Beethoven's 9th Symphony was his interpretation of Schiller's Ode to Joy.

18 Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe was appointed chief of the Balloon Corps for the Union troops. (american civil war)

19 The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ

20 The six most deadly battles all occured between October 1914, and March 1918.

21 The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object that can be seen without a telescope.

22 Steve Martin wrote a book called Cruel Shoes.

23 In chess, the white king starts on a black square.

24 A stretched out slinky is 87 feet long.

25 Shakespeare's longest play was Hamlet, followed by Richard III with only 15 fewer lines.

[Quiet and Shy]

08 The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Metric or English tons?

[RinglingRingling]

08 The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Metric or English tons?

metric.

[bravedave]

08 The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Metric or English tons?

Before or after the holidays?

(It always feels a little heavier after the holidays.)

[ragtopW]

01 At the beginning of his career, Sherlock Holmes used cocaine

sorry It Was Heroin... (the seven percent soluotion..)

[ragtopW]

a pound of gold weighs less than a pound of feathers..

[tdparrothead]

I feel so much smarter now!!!

[Wino you know]

The only country other than the U.S. that DOES NOT use the metric system is Mynamar (Burma).

It takes the planet Earth 365 days to go around the sun.
It takes the planet Pluto 248 years to go around the sun.
so if I lived on Pluto, I'd be 7 months old

Toronto is farther south than Minneapolis and Milwaukee.

Which U.S. Presidents wore glasses?
ALL of them.

Since 1946, there has always been at least two countries in the world at war with each other.

Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling are the only pitchers in major league baseball to have at least one victory against ALL 30 M.L. teams.