Reasons

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:21 PM

. Other odd features of the house—intended to confuse evil spirits—included a staircase that went straight to a ceiling, doors that open onto two-story drops, a room with a glass floor, and a room without windows that - once entered - a person cannot leave without a key.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:21 PM

The house contains 160 rooms, 2000 doors, and 10,000 windows, some of which open onto blank walls. There are also secret passageways.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:21 PM

If an object has no molecules, the concept of temperature is meaningless.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:21 PM

That's why it's technically incorrect to speak of the "cold of outer space" - space has no temperature, and is known as a "temperature sink," meaning it drains heat out of things.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:22 PM

The gesture of a nose tap, in Britain, means secrecy or confidentiality. In Italy, a tap to the nose signifies a friendly warning.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:22 PM

In 1981 a guy had a heart attack after playing the game BERSERK - video gaming's only known fatality.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:22 PM

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:22 PM

Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:22 PM

In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:22 PM

The Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington in the U.S., completed in 1942, was hailed in its time as a structure more massive than the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:23 PM

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:23 PM

A 17th-century Swedish philologist claimed that in the Garden of Eden God spoke Swedish, Adam spoke Danish, and the serpent spoke French.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:23 PM

The Metro subway of Washington, DC, has several really deep stations. Its Forrest Glen station - in the Maryland suburbs - is 196 feet deep and has the longest subway escalator in the Western Hemisphere.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:23 PM

But MOST of the subway stations in Leningrad are deeper than that.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:23 PM

Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:23 PM

"Fine turkey" and "honeycomb" are terms used for different qualities and textures of sponges.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:24 PM

In order to sell his sets of Shakespeare door-to-door, David McConnell offered free perfume to his customers.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:24 PM

He realized the perfume was more popular and began selling cosmetics door-to-door.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:24 PM

This began the company that grew into Avon.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:24 PM

Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:24 PM

Russians are buying skateboards from the U.S. - but not for recreational purposes.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:25 PM

They see them as an answer to some of the country's transportation needs, because the boards are less expensive than bicycles and require little storage space. The first boards went to school instructors so they could train pupils how to ride them.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:25 PM

The "black box" that houses an airplane's voice recorder is orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:25 PM

The Colgate Company started out making starch, soap, and candles.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:25 PM

In 1881, Procter & Gamble's Harley Procter decided that adding the word pure to his Ivory soap would give its sales a necessary shot in the arm. Analysis proved that Ivory was almost 100% pure fatty acids and alkali, the stuff that most soap is made of.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:25 PM

Ivory's impurities were limited to 0.56%—0.11% uncombined alkali, 0.28% carbonates, and 0.17% mineral matter.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:25 PM

Harley marked his soap 99 and 44/100% pure, deciding that using the exact number sounded more credible than rounding up to 100%.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:28 PM

Since most people are right-handed, the holes on men's clothes have buttons on the right - to make it easier for men to push them through the holes. Well, that's easy, but aren't women mostly right-handed too? Women's buttons are on the OPPOSITE side so their maids can dress them. When buttons were first used, they were expensive and only wealthy women had them. Since a maid faces the woman she is dressing, having the buttons on the left of the dress places them on the maid's right.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:28 PM

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

TJ Cline · 12-22-2005, 07:28 PM

The 3rd year of marriage is called the leather anniversary.

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12-22-2005, 07:21 PM	#1501
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	. Other odd features of the house—intended to confuse evil spirits—included a staircase that went straight to a ceiling, doors that open onto two-story drops, a room with a glass floor, and a room without windows that - once entered - a person cannot leave without a key.

12-22-2005, 07:21 PM	#1502
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The house contains 160 rooms, 2000 doors, and 10,000 windows, some of which open onto blank walls. There are also secret passageways.

12-22-2005, 07:21 PM	#1503
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	If an object has no molecules, the concept of temperature is meaningless.

12-22-2005, 07:21 PM	#1504
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	That's why it's technically incorrect to speak of the "cold of outer space" - space has no temperature, and is known as a "temperature sink," meaning it drains heat out of things.

12-22-2005, 07:22 PM	#1505
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The gesture of a nose tap, in Britain, means secrecy or confidentiality. In Italy, a tap to the nose signifies a friendly warning.

12-22-2005, 07:22 PM	#1506
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	In 1981 a guy had a heart attack after playing the game BERSERK - video gaming's only known fatality.

12-22-2005, 07:22 PM	#1507
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

12-22-2005, 07:22 PM	#1508
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.

12-22-2005, 07:22 PM	#1509
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5070.

12-22-2005, 07:22 PM	#1510
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington in the U.S., completed in 1942, was hailed in its time as a structure more massive than the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

12-22-2005, 07:23 PM	#1511
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

12-22-2005, 07:23 PM	#1512
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	A 17th-century Swedish philologist claimed that in the Garden of Eden God spoke Swedish, Adam spoke Danish, and the serpent spoke French.

12-22-2005, 07:23 PM	#1513
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The Metro subway of Washington, DC, has several really deep stations. Its Forrest Glen station - in the Maryland suburbs - is 196 feet deep and has the longest subway escalator in the Western Hemisphere.

12-22-2005, 07:23 PM	#1514
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	But MOST of the subway stations in Leningrad are deeper than that.

12-22-2005, 07:23 PM	#1515
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Out of all of the postage stamps in the United States with people's faces on them, there is not one that has the picture of someone alive.

12-22-2005, 07:23 PM	#1516
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	"Fine turkey" and "honeycomb" are terms used for different qualities and textures of sponges.

12-22-2005, 07:24 PM	#1517
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	In order to sell his sets of Shakespeare door-to-door, David McConnell offered free perfume to his customers.

12-22-2005, 07:24 PM	#1518
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	He realized the perfume was more popular and began selling cosmetics door-to-door.

12-22-2005, 07:24 PM	#1519
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	This began the company that grew into Avon.

12-22-2005, 07:24 PM	#1520
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Some china is called "bone" china because some powdered animal bone is mixed in with the clay used to make this china: it gives the china a special kind of strength, whiteness, and translucency.

12-22-2005, 07:24 PM	#1521
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Russians are buying skateboards from the U.S. - but not for recreational purposes.

12-22-2005, 07:25 PM	#1522
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	They see them as an answer to some of the country's transportation needs, because the boards are less expensive than bicycles and require little storage space. The first boards went to school instructors so they could train pupils how to ride them.

12-22-2005, 07:25 PM	#1523
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The "black box" that houses an airplane's voice recorder is orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.

12-22-2005, 07:25 PM	#1524
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The Colgate Company started out making starch, soap, and candles.

12-22-2005, 07:25 PM	#1525
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	In 1881, Procter & Gamble's Harley Procter decided that adding the word pure to his Ivory soap would give its sales a necessary shot in the arm. Analysis proved that Ivory was almost 100% pure fatty acids and alkali, the stuff that most soap is made of.

12-22-2005, 07:25 PM	#1526
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Ivory's impurities were limited to 0.56%—0.11% uncombined alkali, 0.28% carbonates, and 0.17% mineral matter.

12-22-2005, 07:25 PM	#1527
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Harley marked his soap 99 and 44/100% pure, deciding that using the exact number sounded more credible than rounding up to 100%.

12-22-2005, 07:28 PM	#1528
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Since most people are right-handed, the holes on men's clothes have buttons on the right - to make it easier for men to push them through the holes. Well, that's easy, but aren't women mostly right-handed too? Women's buttons are on the OPPOSITE side so their maids can dress them. When buttons were first used, they were expensive and only wealthy women had them. Since a maid faces the woman she is dressing, having the buttons on the left of the dress places them on the maid's right.

12-22-2005, 07:28 PM	#1529
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

12-22-2005, 07:28 PM	#1530
TJ Cline Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,545	The 3rd year of marriage is called the leather anniversary.