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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a deacon in the Presbyterian church.

Although belonging to the Bronze Age, the Hittites were forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 14th century BC.

The reason that the british drive on the left hand side of the road goes back to the 18th century. The reason was so that passing horseman could easily swipe there swords at each other as most people at this time were right handed.

captain.gordino wrote:A special kind of flashbulb used exclusively by Canon makes the flash of their cameras fatal to lizards.

Um... really? Wow.

You can fit 3 Earths inside Jupiter´s Great Red Spot.

M.

focusedfire wrote:Paul Revere was not the only rider on the mid-night ride. He was one of three.(Sounds borgish, Think more americans would learn their history if seven of nine were in it?)

Seven of Nine is part of American history.

In 2004 Barak Obama was running for the Illinois Senate seat against Jack Ryan. However, during the campaign it was ruled that his formerly sealed divorce records should be released to the public, and these records contained allegations that his former wife, Jeri Ryan or Seven of Nine, had been pressured into having sex in public. Ryan withdrew from the campaign, and Obama romped it in, and this became his staging ground to end up the first black president of the US.

A Polar Bear's Skin is actually Black.

There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic goo on everybody nearby.

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.

Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally slowed.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.

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

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Elephants CAN"T jump, every other mammal can.
Edit I'm just dumb at typing

Noisy_Marine wrote:

captain.gordino wrote:A special kind of flashbulb used exclusively by Canon makes the flash of their cameras fatal to lizards.

Um... really? Wow.

I demand evidence! Or at least a source!

Phoenix is the only state capital with a population of more than a million people.

Kellogg's was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg.

And Corn Flakes were originally intended to lower peoples libidos, and Kellogg was rather keen on that sort of thing. The weirdo.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Elephants can jump, every other mammal can.

What about white men?

in America 4 people have legaly changed theire name to santa claus

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho it's hot
The Sun is not
a place where we could live
but here on earth there'd be no life without the light it gives

We need it's light
We need it's heat
We need it's energy

Without the sun
Without a doubt
There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas
Iron
Copper
Aluminum
and many others

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow a million earths could fit inside
and yet the sun is only a middle-sized star

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away!
and that's why it looks so small

And even when it's out of sight
the sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine
The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of
Hydrogen
Carbon
Nitrogen
and Helium

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees

--They Might Be Giants--

Comparing mass ratio, we human beings kick out more energy than the sun (true that).

Losing 80% of your bodyheat through the head is a modern myth, based on flawed studies. When the body is uncovered, heat is exchanged even across the body. However, when wrapped up, it appears more heat is being lost through the head, as the parts of the body covered up have the signature 'muffled'

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Comparing mass ratio, we human beings kick out more energy than the sun (true that).

Losing 80% of your bodyheat through the head is a modern myth, based on flawed studies. When the body is uncovered, heat is exchanged even across the body. However, when wrapped up, it appears more heat is being lost through the head, as the parts of the body covered up have the signature 'muffled'

So more naked research needs to be done?

No, just slightly less stacked research.

Dirty boy.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:No, just slightly less stacked research.

Dirty boy.

Heh... stacked research.

Sign me up!

48 of the 50 U.S. states have a town or city named Rome in it.

all but one continent on the planet has a city/town called Rome.

Christmas Island has the greatest land area of any coral atoll in the world: about 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi).