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Big Babooba
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Kittens don't smell very nice when they've just been to the litter box.
bigbrownhen
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French bulldogs think Killdear eggs are a treat. Poor little bird should'nt have nest in middle of my driveway.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.
Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.
At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York's Central Park.
The Curly Redwood Lodge is one of northern California’s most unique lodges. It was built from one curly redwood tree that produced 57,000 board feet of lumber. The tree - cut down in 1952 - was 18 feet 2 inches at the trunk. Curly redwood is unique because of the curly grain of the wood, unlike typical straight grained redwood.
The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.
At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York's Central Park.
The Curly Redwood Lodge is one of northern California’s most unique lodges. It was built from one curly redwood tree that produced 57,000 board feet of lumber. The tree - cut down in 1952 - was 18 feet 2 inches at the trunk. Curly redwood is unique because of the curly grain of the wood, unlike typical straight grained redwood.
The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)
The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
City Driver
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random fact: the weekends feels like 12 hours and the weekday feels like 12 days
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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This number is greatly reduced when you switch to CFLs.
Big Babooba
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When a kitten discovers the roll of TP hanging in the bathroom, it'll have to be replaced!
fethrs
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Oh that would be fun. I'd rather give my cat a bath....lolWe need to hold her down in the bath tub and scrub her clean !!
Seen it done.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
I assume that "snoring" was just one of several indicators the doc used to determine the person had sleep apnea?
The way it happened here, snoring was an indicator that the person might have sleep apnea, and so they were pulled off the road until they could definitively prove that they didn't. This took a while, I want to say at least a month.
bubsdad
"Hang in there!"
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
moreluck
golden ticket member
bubsdad
"Hang in there!"
Upon hearing the name Obama, 37% of people hear harp music and see doves being released.37% of people who sneeze with their eyes closed, see Obama !!
