DID YOU KNOW

Tall_Unathletic_Guy · Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:17 am

Did you know......that t.v's were not invented by japs but rather invented by a secret society on the shores of Madagascar with nothing little more than alluminum foil, sandwach bags and a roll of balogna?

Tall_Unathletic_Guy · Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:17 am

Did you know mustard comes from....mustard seeds?

Tall_Unathletic_Guy · Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:19 am

Did you know that 2 slices of evenly cut bread and a slice of bologna added togetther is really called a bologna sandwich?

Tall_Unathletic_Guy · Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:20 am

Did you know .......Harry Caray was part of the Nazi party?

Tall_Unathletic_Guy · Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:20 am

Did you know ........that people are humans?

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:56 am

John Knox of Scotland was the first man in all history to advocate compulsory education.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:46 pm

Kansas

Some farmers in Kiowa County (pop. 3,278) are harvesting a new crop: meteroites.A 1,400 pound meteorite,classified as a pallasite,is among more than a dozen space rocks unearthed from local fields since last fall.A 20-pound can fetch $20,000.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:38 am

'Spring-tide' occurs at full and new moon when the sun and moon are in a straight line with the earth.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:24 am

Frederick Vinson who was born in Louisa, Kentucky is the only Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court known to be born in jail.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:27 am

Michigan

Founded in 1852 as Stevens, the town's name was changed to Elk Rapids (pop.2,741) six years later after a pair of elk borns was found in the Meguzee River rapids.Likewise,the river's name was changed to Elk.

rockhillbasketball · Post by **rockhillbasketball** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:18 pm

hank aaron was a baseball player

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:18 pm

The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky has 82 stained-glass windows including the world's largest hand-blown one. The window measures 24 feet wide by 67 feet high and depicts the Council of Ephesus with 134 life-sized figures.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:46 am

Shelby County is recognized as the Saddlebred Capital of Kentucky.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:37 pm

There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an entire winter.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:31 am

'Babe' Didrickson, famous woman athlete, once threw a baseball 296 feet - a record distance for a woman.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:34 pm

MINNESOTA

Maud Hart Lovelace,author of the popular Betsy-Tacy book series in the 1940s and 1950s set in the fictional town of Deep Valley,was born in 1892 in Mankato (pop. 32,427)The Betsy-Tacy Society is restoring the author's childhood home.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:44 am

Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:57 pm

MISSOURI

Twelve gold-plated horseshoes were tossed at a golden spike in May to celegrate the groundbreaking of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of fame and Museum in Wentzville (pop. 6,896). The hall is slated to open this fall.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:34 am

The war between England and the United States ended December 24, 1814.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:33 pm

NEBRASKA

In 1929,the McCook Daily Gazett in McCook (pop. 7,994) became the nation's first daily newspaper regularly delivered by airplane.A plane,dubbed the Newsboy,dropped newspaper bundles in area towns.