Archive for the ‘POLAR BEARS’ Tag
- Americans on average eat eighteen acres of pizza every day.
- Cut an onion in half, rub it on the sole of your foot, and an hour later you will taste onion in your mouth.
- The average person sleeps for about 220,000 hours (or just over 25 years) in a lifetime.
- There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of those, only 26 have been tested, and half of them cause cancer in rats.
- Nearly all polar bears are left-handed.
- There is one chance in 2.2 million of dying in an airplane crash.
- Fran Liebowitz once stated, “Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
- The first European country to have a McDonald’s was Munich,Germany in 1971.
- The only film to win an Oscar in every category for which it was nominated was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
- Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson (the man behind the Muppets) both died on May 16, 1990.
- Glenn Campbell and Perry Como were both the seventh sons of seventh sons.
- Leo Tolstoy’s book War and Peace, was originally named All’s Well That Ends Well.
- William Howard Taft was the heaviest president (340 lbs.) and once had the misfortune of getting stuck in the White House bathtub.
- Charles Bronson was one of 15 siblings.
- Joe Pesci was once the lead vocalist with the band, Joey Dee & the Starlighters.
I LOVE RANDOM
I’ve been an animal lover my entire life centering mainly on cats. I’ve had just about every animal you can think of from snakes to ferrets, guinea pigs, and many others. Since today is a slow Sunday, it’s rainy and gray, and I have two grandchildren coming to visit in a few hours, I won’t be able to get much accomplished once they arrive. Today’s post will be short and sweet. If you like or love animals here are a collection of odd facts which you might find interesting.
- Besides humans, the only animal it can stand on its head is the elephant.
- A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.
- The heads of a freak two-headed snake will fight over food despite sharing the same stomach.
- The armadillo is the only animal apart from man that can catch leprosy.
- A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
- A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won’t.
- Polar bears can smell a human being from 20 miles away.
- The world’s biggest frog is bigger than the world’s smallest antelope.
- Deer sleep only 5 minutes a day.
- Kangaroos can’t walk backward.
- It takes a male horse only 14 seconds to copulate.
- The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5°.
- Camel milk does not curdle.
- There are more goats than people in Somalia.
CAT’S RULE!!
And . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVEY!
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