weird facts, history, news

**aramannie** · 02-21-2006, 07:55 PM

History Lesson --- Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Creepy huh?

**aramannie** · 03-02-2006, 06:06 PM

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

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...lucky pig... can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)

**aramannie** · 03-04-2006, 08:23 PM

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........won't go there.)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed. (i wonder how they figured that out... did he sign his polar registration??)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig??)

crocodiles' heartbeat is of 3 beats / minute under the water (i am not changing my mind about the pig)

the cobra is the most venomous reptile... 1 tablespoon of its toxin kills 165 person instantaneously, which is equivalent to 165000 mouse. (easy... i bite!!!)

**aramannie** · 03-05-2006, 09:17 PM

the rattlesnake is the fastest snake it slithers with a speed of 3meters / second (HEY!! it's fast 4 a snake!!!)

Einstein's brain contains 15% more gray cells (neurons) than an average human brain (told you he was inhuman!!! :P)

lebanon's baalbek temples made during 3A.D. by the romans are made of volcanic rock, although there are no volcanoes anywhere near by a radius of 400km... (1 conclusion: aliens)

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

**bsl** · 03-05-2006, 09:40 PM

The president thing is EXTREMELY creepy.

**Guttu** · 03-06-2006, 06:25 AM

really amazin facts
I dunno haw i missed that

keep postin such things

If I'm not wrong rattlesnake is also called sidewinder
dats bcoz of the unique way he travels
i.e sideways
The amazin fact is that he can travel on land which has a
temperature of over 65 deggrees
he manages to travel on such hot land by jus touchin only two parts of his body on the land and that two parts are the curves
that we c in his run

**indianbaba** · 03-06-2006, 06:10 PM

Nice amazing facts.
Keep sharing.

**aramannie** · 03-07-2006, 03:23 PM

Singapore only has one train station.

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

The tip of a 2cm long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph

**Guttu** · 03-07-2006, 03:32 PM

hey if I'm not mistaken
it takes 20 mins to travel through the body
I'll chek that

and about childrens
I know that and my cousins childrens [put me in trouble
many times