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TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:20 PM

Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:20 PM

Male birds actually do most of the singing, primarily to stake out their territory and to invite females of their species over to mate. Females tend to select as mates those male birds who sing the most. It is believed they do this not because they like the quality of the singing, but because they have learned the males who sing the most have the most food in their territory. Since the male doesn't have to spend much time hunting for food, it has more time to sing.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - which crossing Chesapeake near its mouth, at Norfolk, Virginia - uses a combination of bridge spans and tunnels. Manmade islands allow the roadway to enter the tunnels beneath the Bay's shipping channels.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

he only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

Given their sheer volume, ninety-nine percent of the living space on the planet is found in the oceans. The average depth of the oceans is 2.5 miles (4 km). The deepest point lies in the Mariana Trench, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) down. By way of comparison, Mount Everest is only 5.5 miles (8.8 km) high

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

Ninety percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic cones and sea mounts. Two or three could erupt at any moment.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

According to NASA, the U.S. has the world's most violent weather. In a typical year, the U.S. can expect some 10,000 violent thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,000 tornadoes and several hurricanes.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:21 PM

Zion, Illinois - located on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago - was founded by the followers of John Alexander Dowie, whose Christian Catholic Church disapproved of pharmacies, doctors, theaters or dance halls. Smoking, drinking and the eating of pork also was prohibited in town.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:22 PM

The U-S Park Service says the older Old Faithful gets, the more the geyser at Yellowstone National Park slows down. In the 1950s, it erupted every 62 minutes. Lately, it's been erupting every 77 minutes. Some experts say Old Faithful may someday just stop.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:22 PM

At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is 3 times the size of Texas. By comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:22 PM

According to experts, large caves tend to "breathe"; they inhale and exhale great quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air rushes in or out seeking equilibrium.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:22 PM

The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:22 PM

My bicep is much bigger than that

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:23 PM

Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:23 PM

The state of Oregon has one city named Sisters and another called Brothers. Sisters got its name from a nearby trio of peaks in the Cascade Mountains known as the Three Sisters. Brothers was named as a counterpart to Sisters.

maniclion · 12-20-2005, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ForemanRules

The Portuguese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.

LIE.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maniclion

LIE.

True story

Little Wing · 12-20-2005, 06:56 PM

hmm my son came home 1 day n told me the portuguese man of war is not 1 animal but many. apparently that's a true story.

n i came in here originally to share this

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don’t know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that’ll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Little Wing · 12-20-2005, 07:01 PM

The Australian Museum notes on its luminous web page, that the portuguese man-of-war ". . . is not a single animal but a colony of four kinds of highly modified individuals [polyps]. The polyps are dependent on one another for survival."

Little Wing · 12-20-2005, 07:07 PM

http://www.australianfauna.com/bluebottlejellyfish.php how long is 10 meters?

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Little Wing

http://www.australianfauna.com/bluebottlejellyfish.php how long is 10 meters?

http://www.qsl.net/w4sat/feetconv.htm

Little Wing · 12-20-2005, 07:11 PM

haha i was doing the same thing its almost 33 feet http://www.lambron.com/length.html

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:11 PM

So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:11 PM

Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:11 PM

John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:11 PM

The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:11 PM

Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:12 PM

Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York (aaah!).

TJ Cline · 12-20-2005, 07:12 PM

Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?

12-20-2005, 05:20 PM	#421
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
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12-20-2005, 05:20 PM	#422
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Male birds actually do most of the singing, primarily to stake out their territory and to invite females of their species over to mate. Females tend to select as mates those male birds who sing the most. It is believed they do this not because they like the quality of the singing, but because they have learned the males who sing the most have the most food in their territory. Since the male doesn't have to spend much time hunting for food, it has more time to sing.
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12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#423
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
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12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#424
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - which crossing Chesapeake near its mouth, at Norfolk, Virginia - uses a combination of bridge spans and tunnels. Manmade islands allow the roadway to enter the tunnels beneath the Bay's shipping channels.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#425
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	he only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
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12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#426
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Given their sheer volume, ninety-nine percent of the living space on the planet is found in the oceans. The average depth of the oceans is 2.5 miles (4 km). The deepest point lies in the Mariana Trench, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) down. By way of comparison, Mount Everest is only 5.5 miles (8.8 km) high
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12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#427
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Ninety percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic cones and sea mounts. Two or three could erupt at any moment.
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12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#428
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	According to NASA, the U.S. has the world's most violent weather. In a typical year, the U.S. can expect some 10,000 violent thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,000 tornadoes and several hurricanes.
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12-20-2005, 05:21 PM	#429
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Zion, Illinois - located on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago - was founded by the followers of John Alexander Dowie, whose Christian Catholic Church disapproved of pharmacies, doctors, theaters or dance halls. Smoking, drinking and the eating of pork also was prohibited in town.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 05:22 PM	#430
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	The U-S Park Service says the older Old Faithful gets, the more the geyser at Yellowstone National Park slows down. In the 1950s, it erupted every 62 minutes. Lately, it's been erupting every 77 minutes. Some experts say Old Faithful may someday just stop.
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12-20-2005, 05:22 PM	#431
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is 3 times the size of Texas. By comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 05:22 PM	#432
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	According to experts, large caves tend to "breathe"; they inhale and exhale great quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air rushes in or out seeking equilibrium.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 05:22 PM	#433
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles
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12-20-2005, 05:22 PM	#434
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	My bicep is much bigger than that
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12-20-2005, 05:23 PM	#435
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
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12-20-2005, 07:07 PM	#441
Little Wing SEMPER~FIDELIS Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 21,050 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 191	http://www.australianfauna.com/bluebottlejellyfish.php how long is 10 meters?

12-20-2005, 05:23 PM	#436
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	The state of Oregon has one city named Sisters and another called Brothers. Sisters got its name from a nearby trio of peaks in the Cascade Mountains known as the Three Sisters. Brothers was named as a counterpart to Sisters.
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12-20-2005, 06:56 PM	#439
Little Wing SEMPER~FIDELIS Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 21,050 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 191	hmm my son came home 1 day n told me the portuguese man of war is not 1 animal but many. apparently that's a true story. n i came in here originally to share this Everyone I know, everywhere I go *People need some reason* to believe I don’t know about anyone but me If it takes all night, that’ll be all right If I can get you to smile before I leave**

12-20-2005, 07:01 PM	#440
Little Wing SEMPER~FIDELIS Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 21,050 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 191	The Australian Museum notes on its luminous web page, that the portuguese man-of-war ". . . is not a single animal but a colony of four kinds of highly modified individuals [polyps]. The polyps are dependent on one another for survival."

12-20-2005, 07:11 PM	#443
Little Wing SEMPER~FIDELIS Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: United States Posts: 21,050 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 191	haha i was doing the same thing its almost 33 feet http://www.lambron.com/length.html

12-20-2005, 07:11 PM	#444
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 07:11 PM	#445
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 07:11 PM	#446
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.
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12-20-2005, 07:11 PM	#447
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544

12-20-2005, 07:11 PM	#448
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.
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12-20-2005, 07:12 PM	#449
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York (aaah!).
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12-20-2005, 07:12 PM	#450
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,544	Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?
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