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  • March 24, 2009 5:17 pm at 5:17 pm #589636
    moish01
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    Ok, here goes my attempt to try and get this one up and running!

    This thread is for posting interesting information that you’ve come across, and you think is not common knowledge. (it’s also a good place to test your trivia – do you know what everyone else is posting as “uncommon?!”)

    Post and comment away, but please let’s not turn this into another general shmooze.

    😉

    March 24, 2009 5:56 pm at 5:56 pm #926349
    anonymisss
    Participant

    moish, you start. What do you know that we don’t?

    ~a~

    March 24, 2009 6:50 pm at 6:50 pm #926350
    moish01
    Member

    well, for one – we’ll bring our buddies in the opossum family here.

    oomis1105

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    This is from my husband – did you know that you can fit 14 newly-born opossums on a teaspoon (or maybe it’s a tablespoon). Why you might WANT to, i will never know, but you COULD…

    Newborn opossums are smaller than a dime.

    Newborn opossums are so small you could fit 24 of them into a teaspoon!

    But you wanna know why?

    After a pregnancy of only 12-13 days, the tiny, naked newborns, smaller than a dime, crawl up through their mother’s belly fur and into her pouch. Here they attach to a nipple and continue to develop. After about 2 months the young opossums, now bright eyed and fully-furred, crawl out of the pouch and onto their mother’s back.

    and i said i had a good one but i needa use the key word for hangman first. so after that game i’ll put it up.

    March 24, 2009 7:22 pm at 7:22 pm #926351
    flatbush27
    Member

    shoulda called this thread snapple facts

    March 24, 2009 7:36 pm at 7:36 pm #926352
    moish01
    Member

    ha! except not all snapple facts are really facts. a whole bunch aren’t true.

    March 24, 2009 7:45 pm at 7:45 pm #926353
    Dr. Pepper
    Participant

    The copper sheeting of the Statue of Liberty is less than one tenth of an inch thick!

    March 24, 2009 7:51 pm at 7:51 pm #926354
    moish01
    Member

    no wonder the french were so generous

    March 24, 2009 9:18 pm at 9:18 pm #926357
    aussieboy
    Participant

    4 times more men get hit by lightning each year then women.

    March 24, 2009 9:30 pm at 9:30 pm #926358
    Belev Echad
    Participant

    The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off

    March 24, 2009 10:16 pm at 10:16 pm #926359
    moish01
    Member

    The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

    March 24, 2009 10:25 pm at 10:25 pm #926360
    moish01
    Member

    wow i was looking online and i found this.

    The X’s that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000’s when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X

    i’ll bet if i made this into its own thread it would turn into a whole huge discussion as to whether or not it’s muttar to sign off a letter with XXOO

    😉

    March 24, 2009 10:31 pm at 10:31 pm #926361
    kapusta
    Participant

    there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

    rubber bands last longer when theyre refrigerated

    ok now for something you dont know… well probably something you never thought of

    Q: what number would you have to reach in order to use an “a” when its written out (e.g. one, two…)

    A: one thousand

    🙂

    March 24, 2009 10:47 pm at 10:47 pm #926362
    moish01
    Member

    cool, kapusta – didn’t know ant of those

    March 24, 2009 10:53 pm at 10:53 pm #926363
    aussieboy
    Participant

    kapusta: I actually knew the last one 🙂

    Cats are always born with blue eyes

    Cats can be right pawed or left pawed

    March 24, 2009 10:53 pm at 10:53 pm #926364
    kapusta
    Participant

    I got TUNZ in old emails maybe I’ll find some more, I have to go through them anyway 🙂

    March 24, 2009 11:12 pm at 11:12 pm #926365
    kapusta
    Participant

    you know where thats from? if you do you dont have to say… 😉

    March 25, 2009 1:59 am at 1:59 am #926368
    flatbush27
    Member

    i copied and pasted all the snapple facts but i guess they didnt feel like going through all of them.just so ya know mods i skimmed them and they were fine

    March 25, 2009 2:02 am at 2:02 am #926369
    moish01
    Member

    Question: What are bioflavonoids and where could you find them?

    March 25, 2009 2:06 am at 2:06 am #926370
    an open book
    Participant

    ok, what are they?

    and don’t say look it up 😉

    March 25, 2009 2:09 am at 2:09 am #926371
    anonymisss
    Participant

    They’re the coloring in fruits and vegetables. I think? But I definitely knew the word.

    ~a~

    March 25, 2009 2:10 am at 2:10 am #926372
    moish01
    Member

    look it up 😉

    anyone? 72 probably knows- he knew the word.

    March 25, 2009 2:19 am at 2:19 am #926373
    an open book
    Participant

    so not in the mood to do research now.

    & this is the interesting facts thread, not random questions

    so, mod-72? is anonymisss right?

    March 25, 2009 2:22 am at 2:22 am #926374
    moish01
    Member

    ok, they are the natural pigment in fruits and vegetables, but more than that…

    they are anti-oxidants that have healing “powers” and can act in an anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and anti-cancer way. they can be found in many plants, including citrus fruits, green tea and cocoa. (yeah – chocolate’s healthy unless they take them out like they do to the good milk chocolate…)

    March 25, 2009 2:22 am at 2:22 am #926375
    aussieboy
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    moish01: savoring the fact that we dont know what it means and you do? 😉

    Does it mean artifical flavoring?

    March 25, 2009 2:29 am at 2:29 am #926376
    YW Moderator-72
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    according to Mrs. YW Moderator-72, where vitamin C is naturally occuring in a food item, many times there are bioflavonoids. example: the white inner section of the peels or between the wedges of lemons, oranges, grapefruits (ie. citrus fruits) are the highest source. other fruits may have small amounts also.

    March 25, 2009 2:29 am at 2:29 am #926377
    Jewess
    Member

    Bioflavonoids are antioxidants, if I remember correctly from my Nutrition class. They’re found in fruits and vegetables and some other foods like wine, teas and maybe whole grains. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

    March 25, 2009 2:32 am at 2:32 am #926378
    moish01
    Member

    tell the Mrs. that it used to be called vitamin P. till they discovered that there a billion (ok, not a billion) more variations of it.

    March 25, 2009 2:33 am at 2:33 am #926379
    moish01
    Member

    oh i forgot wine! yeah, you got it Jewess.

    March 25, 2009 2:35 am at 2:35 am #926380
    aussieboy
    Participant

    What does a biilion more variations of it got to do with them changing the name from vitamin P to vitamen C?

    March 25, 2009 2:37 am at 2:37 am #926381
    an open book
    Participant

    thanks for explaining 🙂

    March 25, 2009 3:05 am at 3:05 am #926383
    an open book
    Participant

    just like there are blind people & deaf people, there are anosmic people who have no sense of smell.

    March 25, 2009 3:08 am at 3:08 am #926384
    moish01
    Member

    i didn’t say anything about vitamin C. ask 72 about that. all i was saying is that they used to call it vitamin P and then discovered a whole lot of variations so they scratched that name – there are many different types of bioflavonoids – should i google the names for you? i don’t know them by heart 😉

    March 25, 2009 3:16 am at 3:16 am #926386
    aussieboy
    Participant

    oh…no its all right ill live without knowing thier names

    March 25, 2009 3:20 am at 3:20 am #926387
    moish01
    Member

    good. because i think it’s a waste of brainpower even reading through them. although they might provide good hangman words… 😉

    March 25, 2009 3:24 am at 3:24 am #926388
    yankdownunder
    Member

    Money is not made from paper it is made from cotton.

    The glue on a Israeli Postage Stamp is certified kosher

    March 25, 2009 3:35 am at 3:35 am #926390
    anonymisss
    Participant

    yank, and it can go through the wash unaffected.

    ~a~

    March 25, 2009 3:37 am at 3:37 am #926391
    moish01
    Member

    yank, money used to be made of silk. i guess they had rachmunus on the silkworms 😉

    March 25, 2009 5:35 am at 5:35 am #926392
    kapusta
    Participant

    anonymisss I do it all the time, I call it money laundering 😉

    March 25, 2009 5:37 am at 5:37 am #926393
    anonymisss
    Participant

    ames, cool! I like that and just added it! Thanks 😉

    ~a~

    March 25, 2009 6:23 am at 6:23 am #926394
    Jax
    Member

    ames: wow that’s cool!!! thanx!!!

    March 25, 2009 11:40 am at 11:40 am #926395
    an open book
    Participant

    ames: that’s very cool, i have to remember to try it the next time i have a chance!

    March 25, 2009 1:40 pm at 1:40 pm #926396
    squeak
    Participant

    1. The oldest word in the English language is “town”.

    2. On this day in 1986, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Air Force could ban the wearing of yarmulkas.

    3. Peanuts have no cholesterol (unlike some other nuts)

    4. Peanuts are not nuts (just threw this one in so that no one yells at me for the last one)

    March 25, 2009 3:43 pm at 3:43 pm #926397
    moish01
    Member

    squeak, us frum yidden know that peanuts are not nut because they are not haeitz like the rest of nuts, but haadama like peas.

    March 25, 2009 3:56 pm at 3:56 pm #926398
    anonymisss
    Participant

    I’m allergic to nuts and NOT peanuts.

    ~a~

    March 25, 2009 6:14 pm at 6:14 pm #926399
    charlie brown
    Member

    ames,

    that’s a huge relief! LOL!

    March 25, 2009 6:25 pm at 6:25 pm #926400
    moish01
    Member

    charlie, i don’t know about you, but most guys would rather be nuts than peas.

    March 25, 2009 6:47 pm at 6:47 pm #926401
    moish01
    Member

    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

    (worth it??)

    March 25, 2009 6:51 pm at 6:51 pm #926402
    I. M. Here
    Member

    I actually read somewhere that Dr. Seuss was given a challenge to write a book with a list of 200 words, and he did. “The Cat in the Hat” and it got the name because Cat and Hat were the first 2 words on the list.

    March 25, 2009 7:09 pm at 7:09 pm #926403
    lgbg
    Member

    1.You know when a kid opens his hands and says ” this is how big I am”? well it’s true! From the tips of the fingers of one hand to the other is the length of your height! try it…

    2. your nose and ears NEVER stop growing…

    March 25, 2009 7:15 pm at 7:15 pm #926404
    areivimzehlazeh
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    don’t tell me….

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