While surfing ye olde internet I have found some somewhat interesting things in my travels...so I decided to share them with you since I have nothing better to do...lol....(actually I'm serious)...anyway here ya go....and according to feedback I'll post some more of these...so if you like'em please comment and I'll have some more on the way...so without further adieu...
-There are 556 officially recognized native American tribes.
-The pelican was adopted as a Christian symbol early on because mother pelicans would pierce their own breasts to feed their brood with blood -- seen as a sacrifice not dissimilar to that of Jesus' by the Church leaders.
-The Vatican (Papal States) was the only political entity to grant recognition to the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1861-1865).
-All owls lay white eggs.
-It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
-You can't tickle yourself.
-The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
-Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.
-Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor -- the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
-The snapping turtle eats carion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps
-Everybody knows that St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the U.S., but not everybody knows that St. Mary's, Georgia is the second oldest.
-Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
-Certain sounds in the English language are real germ spreaders, particularly the sounds of f, p, t, d, and s.
-There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
-It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss.
-The football huddle originated at Gallaudet University -- the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf -- in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting plays.
-The "J.R.R." in J.R.R.Tolkien stands for John Ronald Reuel. His son's name is Christopher.
- In every deck of cards the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. That's why he's often called the Suicide King.
-With a population of fewer than nine thousand people, Montpelier, Vermont is the smallest state capital in the U.S.
-In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
-Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
-In 1920 Ray Chapman a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, is the only player ever killed as a result of a major league baseball game. He was hit in the temple with a pitch and died the next day.
Well, I hope you enjoy...please any feedback is appreciated if you would like to see more of these....hopefully in greater quantities...
So until we meet again....this is CNN......CNN....CNN.................................C..........N...............N....................(The CNN thing is from Kung Pow)
~Zoo
