- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
- The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).
- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
- Strong negative emotions lead to damage of immune system.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year
- The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
- A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.
- Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.
- The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.
- Hippos can run faster than humans.
- It is illegal, in some states, to dance to the Star Spangles Banner.
- With enough training an elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.
- 19 states celebrate "National Admit You're Happy Day.
- US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
- The "57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
- The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
- The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
- The numbers "172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill,in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
- The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean,but blood flowing through your head.
- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
- If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feettwo inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.
- Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!").He is heard about 27 million times a day.
- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers(they saw it as competition).
- If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have producedenough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- A jellyfish is 95% water.
- If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube..
- Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- In 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history.
- One billion seconds is about 32 years.
- Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal.
- The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
- The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat.
- The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside.
- Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has allfour legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- If you were to spell out numbers, the letter A wouldnt show up untill u spell up to the number 1000!
- Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
- 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in thesame order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 x 2 = 285714 ,142857 x3 = 428571 ,142857 x 4 = 571428, 142857 x5 = 714285 ,142857 x 6 = 857142
- Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- the movie Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almostall the cars in the film had California license plates.
- If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you willalways find the original number in the result!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Just for kicks
So far who did you talk to the most today? Hannah and Matt
What is the best name for a butler? Jeeves
What is the thing you are picked on most about? My height and tounge chewing (honestly I cant help it!)
What was your last weird encounter? Walking out of the shower with a towel on at the same time Bethany was walking into the house...it caught us both off guard
Whats the weirdest story about your scars? Falling off a jungle gym in 1st grade...but I guess that is not weird
Do you remember the part from Bambi when Bambi learns to say bear? haha yes <3
What color is your toothbrush? Purple and Silver
What is your middle name spelled backwards? htur
Can you eat well with chopsticks? Nope
What creeps you out? Driving in the snow
Have you ever felt an earthquake? No
What do you do with the hot grease when youre done cooking bacon? Haha...I dont know if I have every personaly cooked bacon
What color are your socks today? White
What is your favorite name that starts with the letter G? Grace
Who do you blame for your mood today? Good I was busy, but I enjoyed the day
What is the closest object to your left foot? the ground
Who is your favorite Golden Girl? I have no clue
What is the longest amount of hours you have slept in a row? 14 when i came back from Tanzania
What story do you tell most often? Car accident
What are the posters on your walls? None
What do you think people think of you? Dont know and I dont care
Do you think this year will be better than the last? yes
Who is the most recent person on your incoming call list and how do you feel about them? it was Matthew I love him <3
Do you know who Salad Fingers is? No
What is the stupidest thing you have ever done? I dont know
What is your favorite commercial of the moment?the tide to go pen commercials where the stain talks...haha
What does it take to make you cry? Not much most of the time
What are you looking forward to? Graduation
Have you ever cried because you thought you were ugly? No
What do you like to do when you are alone? Think
Who are your 2 favorite characters on Full House? Uncle Jesse and Kimmy
What is missing from your life? Right now a job
When was the last time you slept with a stuffed animal? Last night (dont judge me!)
If it was your last day on earth what shoes would you wear? Flip Flops <3
Do you own a Super Nintendo? No
What do you think of Law and Order? I think there are too many of them! But I like them
Can you name all 7 dwarfs? Yeppers sleepy, sneezy, sleepy, grumpy, dopey, doc, bashful
What was the last thing you thought you lost, but ended up finding it? My student ID card
What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping
If you had a ball of clay what would you mold it into? I have no idea
Do you have any famous relatives? Not that I know of
What is the best name for a butler? Jeeves
What is the thing you are picked on most about? My height and tounge chewing (honestly I cant help it!)
What was your last weird encounter? Walking out of the shower with a towel on at the same time Bethany was walking into the house...it caught us both off guard
Whats the weirdest story about your scars? Falling off a jungle gym in 1st grade...but I guess that is not weird
Do you remember the part from Bambi when Bambi learns to say bear? haha yes <3
What color is your toothbrush? Purple and Silver
What is your middle name spelled backwards? htur
Can you eat well with chopsticks? Nope
What creeps you out? Driving in the snow
Have you ever felt an earthquake? No
What do you do with the hot grease when youre done cooking bacon? Haha...I dont know if I have every personaly cooked bacon
What color are your socks today? White
What is your favorite name that starts with the letter G? Grace
Who do you blame for your mood today? Good I was busy, but I enjoyed the day
What is the closest object to your left foot? the ground
Who is your favorite Golden Girl? I have no clue
What is the longest amount of hours you have slept in a row? 14 when i came back from Tanzania
What story do you tell most often? Car accident
What are the posters on your walls? None
What do you think people think of you? Dont know and I dont care
Do you think this year will be better than the last? yes
Who is the most recent person on your incoming call list and how do you feel about them? it was Matthew I love him <3
Do you know who Salad Fingers is? No
What is the stupidest thing you have ever done? I dont know
What is your favorite commercial of the moment?the tide to go pen commercials where the stain talks...haha
What does it take to make you cry? Not much most of the time
What are you looking forward to? Graduation
Have you ever cried because you thought you were ugly? No
What do you like to do when you are alone? Think
Who are your 2 favorite characters on Full House? Uncle Jesse and Kimmy
What is missing from your life? Right now a job
When was the last time you slept with a stuffed animal? Last night (dont judge me!)
If it was your last day on earth what shoes would you wear? Flip Flops <3
Do you own a Super Nintendo? No
What do you think of Law and Order? I think there are too many of them! But I like them
Can you name all 7 dwarfs? Yeppers sleepy, sneezy, sleepy, grumpy, dopey, doc, bashful
What was the last thing you thought you lost, but ended up finding it? My student ID card
What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping
If you had a ball of clay what would you mold it into? I have no idea
Do you have any famous relatives? Not that I know of
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Spring is here...well it was for a day!
As we all know Spring arrived on March 21st, but it was snowing here in good old Western New York, but we have had a warmish day since spring began. I was so excited about the weather my house mate Sheri and I ran outside to enjoy the weather and of course take pictures in the SUN, becasue it had been awhile since it showed it face around Houghton!
I wanted to share some pictures with you so you can also look farward to warm weather 8-)
What do you all do in the warm sunny spring weather?
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
so today it began
Today in the Houghton College lounge we had senior salute. Where I received graduation information along with my cap and gown, this is scary stuff it means I will be out in the real world soon.
So as it are standing in line to get our names on the right lists, and check the spelling of our names a million different times, the topic comes up...the topic of what we are going to be doing come May. And people are going on and on about how they got a teaching job or how they will be attending grad school, and then it got me. I was asked if I would be going to Africa to work as a missionary among the Maasai which has been my dream for some time now.
I tell them that I can not go to Africa because I have student loans that I need to pay off after college and that the missions agency wont take people with student loans, and then the comments start. First off apparently none of these people have student loans, because they and or their families are rich (sorry but I can not not for my 35,000 dollar a year school out of pocket and still eat!!!) So then I am asked what I am going to be doing.... and I dread my answer but I say it anyways.....
I will be going to live at home and work at GAP again until I can get enough $$ together to get married and pay off some loans so I can go to Africa all while looking for a job with refugees in Boston...and then it comes a girl that I know quite well as she went to Tanzania with me says and I quote..."So do you feel lame and pathetic that you are moving home with your family and working a GAP I mean you did go to college."
UGH I was so mad and I wanted to cry. I thought a lot of people graduated not really knowing what they will be doing. Am I the only one? What are you guys doing, or what did you do after college?
So as it are standing in line to get our names on the right lists, and check the spelling of our names a million different times, the topic comes up...the topic of what we are going to be doing come May. And people are going on and on about how they got a teaching job or how they will be attending grad school, and then it got me. I was asked if I would be going to Africa to work as a missionary among the Maasai which has been my dream for some time now.
I tell them that I can not go to Africa because I have student loans that I need to pay off after college and that the missions agency wont take people with student loans, and then the comments start. First off apparently none of these people have student loans, because they and or their families are rich (sorry but I can not not for my 35,000 dollar a year school out of pocket and still eat!!!) So then I am asked what I am going to be doing.... and I dread my answer but I say it anyways.....
I will be going to live at home and work at GAP again until I can get enough $$ together to get married and pay off some loans so I can go to Africa all while looking for a job with refugees in Boston...and then it comes a girl that I know quite well as she went to Tanzania with me says and I quote..."So do you feel lame and pathetic that you are moving home with your family and working a GAP I mean you did go to college."
UGH I was so mad and I wanted to cry. I thought a lot of people graduated not really knowing what they will be doing. Am I the only one? What are you guys doing, or what did you do after college?
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