Image via Wikipedia Check this out: The US standard railroad distance between the rails is 4 feet, 8.5 inches which is a strange number. Why this distance? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail [...]
Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists. I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 [...]
Got a good piece of knowledge dropped on me this weekend by Modogg. Check out what he said: Now, you are probably aware that beers can be grouped by the type of fermentation that produces them (ale vs. lager), their flavor (porter vs. IPA vs. amber ale), and even their strength (dubbel vs. trippel vs. [...]
Keep in mind that 15% of all female chickens have penises. That’s right, they look like males but aren’t. If you’re a professional chicken sex-finder, you get paid $700 buck a day and have to have keen sight and a steady hand. I thought the bar scene was rough – imagine being a chicken
Today in 1991, Pearl Jam released their first album, called Ten, which was the number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock. The album sold over 10 million copies. That’s a lot. To compare, the top album of 2006 was Carrie Underwood’s which sold 3.7 million. The band was orginally called Mookie Blaylock, but Eddie Vedder came [...]
Is it wrong that i can relate to this guy? I didn’t know the trivia about Hudsucker Proxy, and i dig his little game about finding something that happened each year when making change. (click on the image to watch his video)
The first motion in the Continental Congress for independence was made on June 4, 1776. After hard debate, the Congress voted unanimously, but secretly, for independence from Britain on July 2. The Congress reworked the text of the Declaration until July 4, when the 12 colonies voted for adoption and released a copy signed only [...]
Why go out tonight? How about 25 reasons why…. If you don’t drink that booze, someone else will – now get off your ass Bad ass nicknames like “Chuggybear,” “The Alabama Hamma,” “Pukey McPukerson” are not awarded to people who stay home to do laundry (ahem: kmr) This is the one and only night your [...]
This is a reminder that today is Albert Einstein’s birthday. If he were still alive in 2007, he would turn 128. Few people realize that the Nobel Prize winner married his cousin, Elsa Einstein Lowenthal, after his first marriage dissolved in 1919. Elsa was Albert’s first cousin (maternally) and his second cousin (paternally). She was [...]
Before World War II, only 2% of all people in Germany were named Adolf, and during Hitler’s reign, he forbade Germans to name children after him. So, you are almost guaranteed to never meet anyone with the name Adolf Hitler.
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