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NASA flew the first Russian cosmonaut on a Space Shuttle mission in 1994, paving the way for a series of joint flights between the Shuttle and the Russian Mir Space Station from 1995- 1997.
The longest piano piece of any kind is 'Vexations' by Erik Satie. It consists of a 180-note composition which, on the composer’s orders, must be repeated 840 times so that the whole performance is 18 hours 40 minutes. Its first reported public performance in September 1963, in the Pocket Theater, New York City, required a relay team of 10 pianists. The New York Times critic fell asleep at 4 a.m. and the audience dwindled to 6 masochists. At the conclusion, one sado-masochist shouted 'Encore!'
A baby will dribble more than 100 litres of saliva b4 the 1st birthday.
An adult mosquito's life is about 1 week.
The seven fundamental principles
of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies:- humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. <--- got this off ifrc.org i was tooo bored.
National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
Every male over the 18 is considered part of the Arizona Militia according to state constitution.
i l o t u v w x are the symmetric lower case letters in the Roman alphabet.
January 27, 1967
Tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test for Apollo 204, scheduled to be the first Apollo manned mission. It would have been launched on February 21, 1967, but Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module (CM).
When the Sun goes supernova, Earth's surface and atmosphere will resemble that of Venus, while the surface of Mars will mime that of the Earth's. Pretty ironic, don't you think?
Albright College in Reading, PA is located on the only street listed in Guinness Book of Records as the only U.S. street in which you can live your entire life. The road has neighborhoods, a hospital, an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, a college, at least one church, various businesses (employment), and a cemetery. You can live your whole life and not leave 13th Street. (2000)
In France, they used to sell rabbits skinned, but with their feet still attached. The reason being it is very difficult to tell a skinned cat from a skinned rabbit without the feet. Cats were sometimes called 'roof rabbit.'
The record for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, an caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car). [Source: Guinness Book of World Records '99]
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary “I quit smoking tobacco.” He died one month later.
On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
Edgar Allan Poe's last words were 'Lord help my poor soul', on Oct. 7th, 1849. He died by: congestion of the brain due to lethal amounts of alchohol while (at the same time) being exposed to freezing temperatures. He was too drunk to think of putting a jacket and warm clothes on
The Titanic and Olympic were both captained by the same man. Captain Edward J.Smith
Termites are responsible for a lot of the world's pollution as they produce the largest amount of methane out of all animals.
Star Wars I: People may or may not have noticed this but there is a shot in the senate chamber room after Amidala asked for a vote of no confidence where it shows uproars in some of the senator's pods on the walls. One shot shows E.T.'s in the lower left hand corner. Lucas probably put it in there as a joke for Spielberg
According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
The state fruit of New York is the apple.. The apple was adopted as the State fruit in 1976. Apples are sweet and crisp. They come in many varieties, such as Golden Delicious, McIntosh and Winesap.
Pepsi was originally named Brad's Drink, and Kool-Aid originally went by Fruit Smack Flavored Syrup
did u know that theirs 14 'pages' in this site?
a average person sleeps around 20 yearsin a lifetime!
Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.
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in texas it is illegal to have sex with a fish, in florida it is illegal to get a fish drunk, and n.carolina thought both laws were good so in nc it is illegal to have sex with a drunk fish , To 'fall off the wagon' does not refer to drunkeness. It actually references sobriety. 'Up on the wagon' refers to drunkeness from the days of beer wagons and true (drunk drivers:)
Rub your palms together hard, so you make those little black rolls of dead skin. Those are called "Blatties." They're named after an early computer hacker at MIT.
The longest non-medical term in the english language is antidisestablishmentarianism
the sun DoES rotate
"Yahoo" (according to the company) stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
If the Sun were to become a neutron star, it's rotational period would be 1,000 times per second! Pretty fast, huh?
If you are lost in the wilderness you can kill a porcupine and eat its quills for food- they're nutritious!! [Source: Discovery Channel]
A saw can be used to to create music. Professional saw players (they do exist; listen to the opening tune of the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", or the They Might Be Giants track "James K. Polk") use a cello bow and controlled knee movements to modulate the blade's whine.
UNICEF was created at the end of World War II to relieve the suffering of children in war torn Europe
www.un.org has 6 different language options:- english, arabic, chinese, russion, spanish and french(been there)
Second hand tobacco smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death, after active tobacco smoking and alcohol use. Environmental tobacco smoke, as it is also called, contributes to more than 50,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone.
Most American's car horns beep in the key of F. (www.funtrivia.com)
achromatic:-(1) for primary light sources, the computed chromaticity of the equal-energy spectrum. (2) for surface colors, the color of a whitish light, serving as the illuminant, to which adaptation has taken place in the visual system of the observer. (3) perceived as having no hue, that is, as white, gray, or black. (definition of achromatic.. Duh!)
The first flying machines on Mars, for example, may well be patterned not on aircraft, helicopters or even birds but on the lowly insect.(britanica.com)
Cryst Ting (actualy crystal) got sunburned during sports day 2001
tapioca leaves contains arsenic
facts.org is a website for 'Florida Academic Caunselling and Tracking for Students'....(tried it)
javascript is really really complicatyed
there is a person named eve teh...
Most teenagers need at least 8 1/2 hours of sleep per night(CNN health news)
Sultan Tengah is the 1st and last Sultan of Sarawak. He was killed by one of his men while in the toilet......(compliments to Cikgu Hapsah my history teacher. taught this while teaching Bab 2: Sejarah Awal smth
Every Word In This Sentence Begins With A Capital Letter....
Take a grape, slice it down the middle so the indentations on either end are on separate halves. However, when you slice it, make sure the two halves are still connected by a bit of grape skin. Place the sliced grape in the microwave and set the timer to about five seconds. Start the microwave and very shortly a large, bright flame should shoot up from the grape. The flame can reach up to 6 inches, so maybe don't try this without anyone else around. Stop the microwave after you see the flame, and feel the grape. It should be almost completely cool. Amazing stuff, eh?
The children's song 'Ring around the Rosey' dates back to the days of the Black Plague. The words are now amended slightly. The original went something like this: 'Ring around the rosey, a pocket full of posey, ashes, ashes, we all fall dead.' 'Posey' was a collection of herbs thought to ward off the spirits which brought the plague. 2) During the plague, people would throw sulphur and other substances into the fireplace to drive away these same spirits. The sulphur worked!
The 'Happy Birthday' song is actually copyrighted. So legally, if you somehow profit from the song you are entitled to pay royalities to Time-Warner who supposedly makes somewhere around $2Mil a year from that song. [Source: http://metalab.unc.edu/team/fun/birthday/]
While E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the intestines of all animals, including humans, E. coli serotype 0157:H7 is a rare variety that produces large quantities of one or more related, potent toxins that cause severe damage to the lining of the intestine. [source: a university's web site...]
In the 1997 X-Games, Matt Hoffman won the gold medal for BMX vert(halfpipe) with three broken bones in his foot.
Electromagnetic radiation travels in waves. the distance between the peaks is measured in 'amstrongs'... a sheet of paper is about 1000000 amstrongs thick...(source:NASA website)
The process of finding all the prime numbers (nombor
perdana) less than a given number is called the Seive
of Eratosthenes in honour of the Greek mathematician,
Eratosthenes.
It works more or less like this:.. write out all the numbers less than that given number. Cross out even numbers more than 2. cross out gandaan 3. cross out gandaan 5. cross out gandaan 7. cross out gandaan 11. cross out gandaan 13. cross out gandaan 17. continue crossing out the multiples of prime numbers untill u cant cross out any more...... p/s if u dun understand bm.. gandaan means multiples..
murphy's law was not'if anything can go wrong it will' but he said instead "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
theres a city called Daphne in Alabama USA...
AMANDA is a short form for= the Advanced Maryland Automatic Disk Achiver
It also is a short form for Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array(i ran a search on google)
The animal world is well represented in Shakespeare's works. Over 3,000 references to some 180 difference species of animals--both real and imaginary--have been identified in the plays. Everything from simple country wildlife--birds, bats, hedgehogs, insects, wild boar and deer--to more exotic species--rhinoceros, tiger, elephant and bear, as well as the mythical unicorn, phoenix, and dragon.
The worlds longest road tunnel is named Laerdal and it is in Norway, measuring 24510meters
Bangkoks official name: Krungthep Maha Nakorn Amorn Ratana kosindra Mahindra yudhya, Maha dilokpop Noparatana Rajthani Burirom Udom Rajnivet Mahastan Amorn Pimarn Avatarn Satit Sakkatuttiya Vishnukarm Prasit...(hrm tis is a transaltion not that accurate...)
Kuala Lumper(capital of msia) means mud town...(ok ok meebe not that accurate but y dun u go look in a english-bahasamalaysia dictionary!!)
Very young kittens cannot go to the bathroom by themselves. The mother cat stimulates them into going by licking their genital area after they've eaten. (Gross, but true.)(funtrivia.com)
Humans and dolphins are the only species which have sex for pleasure."--quoted...WOW fm."PIgs' orgasms last for 30 minutes...ONLY."'(hey i got this from daphne.. if wrong blame her
Coffee creamer is extremely flammable(when suspender in the air(if u dun blif it try this:place a tiny amount of flour on a flat surface (think driveway), place a burning candle on top of the middle of the flour (making sure that the flour has settled - not a windy day project), plopping an inverted empty large can (big coffee can) over the whole thing, and running a very long tube, such as aquarium tube, from underneath the can to the hastily constructed barricade you will be hiding behind when you blow into the tube. It should send the can flying.))
Dolphins can sleep with half of their brain still functioning, and then switch
The average human eyelash lives about 150 days
predeliction means preference
A scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatuence.
There is a small town in ARKANSAS called BUCKSNORT. There are also three cities in TEXAS called UNKNOWN, UNNAMED, AND UNDECIDED.
Did you know that cats can listen for prey by rotating their ears independently? Or that their whiskers can detect movements 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair? Or that house cats, unlike other domesticated animals, have changed very little over the past 4,000 years?
A Big Mac has 560 calories
porcelain is pottery made of a special white form of clay. It is molded in a liquid form, dried as greenware, painted with glaze and then fired in a kiln.
Ketonuria: A condition in which abnormally high amounts of ketone bodies (a byproduct of the breakdown of cells) are present in the urine.
Not many people realize that nicotine is also sold commercially in the form of a pesticide
a proposition is true if it correctly describes the state of the world, and false if it incorrectly describes the state of the world. This is known as Tarski's Theory of Truth.(figure this out)
If you drop a raisin in a cup of 7up, you will see it 'dancing' in the water (sinking and the floating and then sinking and then floating ...)
The zip was first used in rubber boots.
the temperature of the Earth's core is 4982°C
Mars is around 192 million km form earth
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.(not sure how true)
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
Aulophobia-flute phobia
Barophobia-gravity phobia
Kathisophobia- sitting down phobia
Pantophobia-EVERYTHING!! phobia
Bookkeeping and Bookkeeper are the only words which has 3 consecutive double letters.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON HAS 2 MILLION SWEAT GLANDS?
When a cat wags its whole tail it is angry. When it wags only the last two inches it is happy.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school and
Scolionophobia- Fear of school.(hmmm.. so if u want to skip skool say u haf that...)
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always the same sex.
Most toilets flush in E flat
Scientists actually study rhinotillexomania.. Thats A scientific word for..... NOSE PICKING, EWWWWWWwwwwww
Cats' sweat glands are in the soft pads on the bottom of thier feet
In an awake individual, saliva is secreted at a rate of ~0.5 milliliters per minute..try clculating the amout in a waking day.. around 16 hours.
The second is defined as being 9,192,631,770 times the time it takes for a cesium-133 atom to swap hyperfine levels in its ground state.
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Disclaimer: I got all this stuff from various websites all over the 'net. This info may not be accurate so dun sue me if they're wrong...
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