Post a random piece of info

[MonorailMan]

I'll start......

According to Forbes there were 1,125 billionaires in the world last year. Now there are 793.

 

[mikelan6]

ok .... here's mine ...

A Boeing 737's fuselage is as wide as the engine nacelle of a Boeing 777

 

[sirJeffrey90]

Bowling pins are spaced 1 foot apart from each other.

 

[ConcKahuna]

Puck, a male budgerigar (commonly called parakeets here in the US) currently holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any talking bird. He can say over 1728 words and phrases!

 

[yasuern]

I love stuff like this - I call it useless knowledge and for some reason the more useless it is the easier it is for me to remeber it - but hey were did I park my car???


so here are my contributions

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

A group of frogs is called an army


Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts



Sue

 

[ConcKahuna]

The town with the worlds longest name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand

 

[rpmdfw]

If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

 

[krnlmustrd]

There are 188 yellow squares on the classic Clue game board.

 

[rpmdfw]

There are 188 yellow squares on the classic Clue game board.

Welcome to the boards krnlmustrd! Nice of you to join us!

 

[jlewisinsyr]

The Concorde (formerly) actually grows in length during flight as the metal expands due to friction of the air. The air averages -75 Degrees outside but the plane body increases in temperature to above 250 Degrees.

 

[Timrobb]

If you spell the EVIAN (the water company) backwards you get:

NAIVE.

(haven't we all been a little naive at one point in our life)

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Hershey bars float.

 

[rpmdfw]

Hershey bars float.

Though it's not advisable to float one in a public swimming pool.

 

[Timrobb]

Though it's not advisable to float one in a public swimming pool.

OMG - that is some funny stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[OrlandoMike]

Have you seen the arrow in the FedEx logo? (Between the E and the X)

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Pinto Colvig was the voice of Bozo the Clown on the 1946 record album that introduced Bozo to the children of the world. The album came with an illustrated read-along book (the first of its kind!) and stayed on Billboard's Best Selling Children's Records Chart for an amazing 200 weeks! Colvig also played Bozo on the first version of the TV show, Bozo's Circus, which debuted on KTTV in Los Angeles in 1949. In 1956, Larry Harmon bought the rights to the Bozo franchise and sold local versions of the show to multiple markets across the U.S. By 1959, he had 100 Bozos in the United States, plus clowns in Germany, France, and Japan. The most famous Bozo the Clown is probably former Today Show weatherman Willard Scott. Harmon's personal favorite, however, was Boston's Frank Avruch. In 1965, Harmon tried to market Avruch as the only Bozo but met resistance from many stations who wanted to keep their own clowns.

 

[Sphyrna]

That's a lot of bozos!!

 

[rpmdfw]

That's a lot of bozos!!

Sounds like all the guys I dated before Scott.

 

[rosiep]

In 1806, Lewis and Clark discovered the land that would later become the city of Portland. Asa Lovejoy, a native of Massachusetts, and Francis Pettygrove, a native of Maine, founded the city in 1851. Lovejoy wanted to name this city after his beloved Boston, but Pettygrove wanted to name it after his hometown of Portland. A coin toss settled the dispute, and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

[OrlandoMike]

In 1835 there was an actual war between Ohio and Michigan over who would own the city of Toledo......