ArcaMax.com - How much can a camel carry?: "From the ArcaMax Publishing, Trivia Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/trivia/s-259720-889607
How much can a camel carry?
Traveling at a rate of 2 to 3 miles per hour, camels can carry 500 to 1,000 pounds on their backs. They are able to keep up this pace for 6 or 7 hours a day. Camels will refuse to carry loads that are not properly balanced."
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
ArcaMax.com - Late for Work
For thirty years, Johnson had arrived at work at 9 A.M., on the dot.
He had never missed a day and was never late.
Consequently, when on one particular day 9 A.M. passed without Johnson's arrival, it caused a sensation.
All work ceased and the boss himself, looking at his watch and muttering, came out into the corridor.
Finally, precisely at ten, Johnson showed up, clothes dusty and torn, his face scratched and bruised, his glasses bent.
He limped painfully to the time clock, punched in, and said, aware that all eyes were upon him, "I tripped and rolled down two flights of stairs in the subway. Nearly killed myself."
The boss said, "And to roll down two flights of stairs took you an entire hour?"
He had never missed a day and was never late.
Consequently, when on one particular day 9 A.M. passed without Johnson's arrival, it caused a sensation.
All work ceased and the boss himself, looking at his watch and muttering, came out into the corridor.
Finally, precisely at ten, Johnson showed up, clothes dusty and torn, his face scratched and bruised, his glasses bent.
He limped painfully to the time clock, punched in, and said, aware that all eyes were upon him, "I tripped and rolled down two flights of stairs in the subway. Nearly killed myself."
The boss said, "And to roll down two flights of stairs took you an entire hour?"
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Trivia - How prolific are flies? - ArcaMax Publishing
Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
[klip-trivia] Trivia and Amazing Facts
Trivia and Amazing Facts
- Percentage of Americans that want to change their bodies in some way: 75%. Percentage of Americans that would want to change their intelligence: 13%.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
- The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Amusing Facts Weekly - November 3, 20100
*** Amusing Facts For The Week
1. Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot
chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored
with chili peppers.
2. Blackbeard often fired incendiary cannonballs filled with
beeswax, fat and gunpowder. They exploded upon impact,
burning with the ferocity of napalm.
3. "Hello" wasn't always the first thing said over the
phone. The first operating phone service was esatblished
in 1878 and the formal greeting back then was "ahoy"
4. The Jalapeno pepper was named after the town of Jalapa in
Mexico, but it is no longer commercially grown there.
5. China is the world's oldest known continuous
civilization.
Thousands of more amusing facts at:
http://www.amusingfacts.com
1. Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot
chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored
with chili peppers.
2. Blackbeard often fired incendiary cannonballs filled with
beeswax, fat and gunpowder. They exploded upon impact,
burning with the ferocity of napalm.
3. "Hello" wasn't always the first thing said over the
phone. The first operating phone service was esatblished
in 1878 and the formal greeting back then was "ahoy"
4. The Jalapeno pepper was named after the town of Jalapa in
Mexico, but it is no longer commercially grown there.
5. China is the world's oldest known continuous
civilization.
Thousands of more amusing facts at:
http://www.amusingfacts.com
Sunday, November 7, 2010
ArcaMax.com - Could stress be good for you?
Public sanitation was at an all-time low during the Middle Ages. Garbage was piled up so high outside the city of Paris during the 1400's that it interfered with the city's defenses.
This news arrived on: 10/28/2007ArcaMax.com - When did Paris have a garbage problem?
Public sanitation was at an all-time low during the Middle Ages. Garbage was piled up so high outside the city of Paris during the 1400's that it interfered with the city's defenses.
This news arrived on: 10/28/2007
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