Stuff You Just Have to Know
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
And just in case you have a pressing need to call Antartica:
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672
Thank you Calamity Jane
Turkey works like Prozac! lol
What the turkeys learned for next year.
He forgot it wasn't Halloween???
Perspectives are funny things.
Hope you had a great one . . .
CHATTY AFTER THE THANKSGIVING MEAL AND BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING!
Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving with your family, a great meal, and have found a lot of things to be thankful for.
I'm very thankful and grateful for my bloggy friends.
Seriously? Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated? Who knew!
ReplyDeleteWhoever has the time to count the ridges in a dime has more time than I do! This is the kind of trivia I love!
ReplyDeleteYeah, this morning I feel like I could be a snail!
ReplyDeleteLoved the post,great need to know information. also as the mother sees it is good.
Love and have a great weekend. GReat picture of you in the bowl!!
From Florida, HUGS
Hello Dear Sandie,
ReplyDeleteAs you know Thanksgiving is only in America..
But I am glad that you had a wonderful thanksgiving.
This is an hilarious post.. so funny.
Thank you to you also for being my blogging friend.
val xx
I love the Prozac cartoon....I hope no one had a day where they felt like they needed that. I am thankful today that yesterday was a wonderful day with family and friends and that today it is all cleaned up.
ReplyDeletehope you are having a great time. i am just like the MOTHER SEES... cluck cluck the sky is falling.
ReplyDeleteI know some people whose brain is smaller than their eyeball. so does this mean i need to put all that paper work that is held together by rubber bands in the freezer? if so I am off to black Friday for a very large one
Stuffing the turkey with Prozac??? BAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteI loved the 'how the Mother sees it' cartoons! So TRUE! Hope you had a wonderful time and will be home safely soon. I'm going to decorate the house over the weekend...well that's the plan anyway! hugs, Linda
ReplyDeleteYou're awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThis will be on my white board on Monday!! See who can come up with the most answers!!
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Have a wonderful Left Over Day!
big thighs. ha ha!
ReplyDeleteYes Ma'am, we did have a lovely day. Hope you did also.
ReplyDeleteGentle hugs,
"Auntie"
You don't want to stuff the Turkey with Prozac LOL
ReplyDeleteI hope that you had a Happy Thanksgiving and that you are finding great buys today.
oh my gosh this was a good one! I'm reading this out loud to my husband, we always look forward to reading your blog, he always asks whats Chatty got to say today! You got fans here!
ReplyDeleteHi Sandie! Hilarious. So many funnies. Now I had no idea there were that many ridges around a dime. Ha!
ReplyDeleteAnd definitely, how Mother sees it is right on.
Thanks for sharing. Hope you have a great day today. Susan
Hello Sandie, Love the funnies! The prozac one could work in certain families!!!!! Love them all!
ReplyDeleteThanks you.
I didn't know any of these things. Having a quiet day. Passed up the shopping, except for some online stuff I could do in my pajamas. Hope you're having a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteGreat fun post! Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful :)
ReplyDeleteI love "how a mother see its". That is so true!
ReplyDeleteGreat Friday post : ) I don't know where you get this stuff but it is either hillarious or useful and I LIKE it!
ReplyDeleteHi Sandie. What a lot of interesting things for us to digest there! Loved the turkey carved as if it was Halloween. I think I am at one with the ostrich, as I'm sure MY eye is bigger than my brain! LOL!! Hugs.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lovely happy face (hehe) Hope you're having a great Thanksgiving. A lot of funnies today my friend. enjoy your day..big hugs
ReplyDeleteLoved the carved turkey! Too cute!!!
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Hey Sandie,
ReplyDeleteYou had time to do this blog for us all.
After that big T.Dinner and stuffing.
Your energetic . Well they say once you eat a Turkey dinner
you feel like that you can conquer the world and then a big
drop of low enery later to be being tired.
True or false?
Who said that.
I read it once. Tee, hee
In Dear Abbey.
let me try this again.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what my Friday face looks like but only near the end of the day.
Wish I would have thought of using prozac in the turkey
I would never have dreamt you would have enough energy to post a "Fun Friday" the day after Thanksgiving. You are awesome.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, you have given me a good laugh...... and I needed one today. Thanksgiving with my family here was wonderful, but today was back to my new life....... I KNOW it will get better, one day at a time.
ReplyDeleteThank you my sweet blogging friend!!
Like this post but I always like your post.
ReplyDeleteI hope your Thanksgiving was a success on every level!
ReplyDeleteA nice post, Sandie. I enjoyed you list. BUT DON'T BET ANY MONEY ON ANY OF THEM!!
ReplyDeleteI Googled ""jiffy" is an actual unit of time" and found from Wikipedia that it is a small but undetermined amount of time. In electronics it is 1/60 of a second in the USA.
My favorite was the poor fellow who carved the turkey like a jack-o-lantern. I'm guessing that he had Thanksgiving and Halloween mixed up.
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Interesting trivia and funny cartoons! I must be related to a snail.
ReplyDeleteYou shopped? Are you crazy? Not me, I don't do it on a good day, much less a Black Friday.
We are out numbered by chickens? Who knew? Those are fun facts and I love that 'carved' turkey.
ReplyDeleteHope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving.
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I'm not sure which cartoon is funniest. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAs always I can count on you for a good laugh or ten. ;-)
Great post yet again! I loved the list. I will work many of those facts into conversation just because. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHope You All Had A Very Happy Thanksgiving. Lots of good jokes.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, I learnt something and a had a laugh.
ReplyDeleteMerle........
now that I know all of this stuff I am prepared for anything!!
ReplyDeleteSo many of those I had no idea about, like tigers having striped skin.... who woulda thought.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Love the dog photo at the end. :) My niece and her husband brought their labrador retriever Hank with them to the farm and he bounded out of the car, ready to play with his BFF Moby (sister and BIL's much older big dog.) Moby looked worn out like that on Thanksgiving night. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Sandie, dear friend,
ReplyDeleteFridays are my favourite days too.
It's lovely to know that the weekend is ahead for having fun.
You are sharing lots of interesting things this day.
I love your wonderful blog, Sandie.
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving with your dear family and beloved ones!
I really miss your comments, sweetheart, when I don't see you visiting me.I do not know why...
I send all my loving on your way.
God may bless you all!
Have a blessed Sunday and week ahead, my friend!
Christmas and the New Year is round the corner. Many people have already begun to prepare themselves for big celebrations for the Holidays.
If it is God's will, I'll be going for my dear family reunion in the Spring of 2013. I can't wait to see my folks again. Praise the Lord for His many blessings!
Warm Hugs,
Poet Starry.
Thanks for all the laughs.
ReplyDeleteYes, I DID have to know all those things, each one is very cool and I printed them. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Sandie!
ReplyDeleteYou always find such funny cartoons! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Enjoy your week! :)
ReplyDeleteWriters love this kind of trivia! Wouldn't it be fun to develop a character that's a trivia buff?
ReplyDeleteThe cartoon with the mooing turkeys was a hoot. It reminds me of Chick-Fil-A's cows urging everyone to eat more chicken.
Blessings,
Susan
Hope you had a lovely weekend and all that shopping didn't wear you out too much :) You have such fun stuff to share and your blog always brings a smile!
ReplyDeleteLot of funny stuff going on here.
ReplyDeleteLove the view on throwing kids in the air....LOL!
Hope you had a wonderful visit in Ohio! All I needed to do was find some Prozac! LOL
ReplyDeleteLOL...just love all your funnies....but was blown away with -" Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself."
ReplyDeleteI NEVER KNEW THAT!
Haha looooved the funfacts! Might use some of these for my future students :)
ReplyDeleteI am so tempted to count the ridges on the edge of the dime :)
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