for a med school reunion. Lucky ducks. I wish I had gone to school with someone who ran a Caribbean island or two.

Waiting for that Led Zeppelin tour

Usually it's the other way around.

The country is an Islamic theocracy led by Sheik Djibouty.

Nah, I just made that up. Sorry. It would be cool if it were true, though.

It's an oldie but a goodie.

And here I thought I just made it up....

An another illusion shattered...

Females have the spur but do not produce venom. Also, this animal locates its prey using electroreception, by sensing electric fields generated by muscle movement.

Just saying

Has not won the White House since 1928, without the names Nixon or Bush on the ticket.

Let's take a look at presidential and vice-presidential Republicans elected since 1928:

1928: Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis
1952: Dwight D Eisenhower and Richard Nixon
1956: Dwight D Eisenhower and Richard Nixon
1968: Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew
1972: Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew
1980: Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
1984: Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
1988: George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle
2000: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
2004: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

Spiro Agnew resigned as Vice-President in October 1973 as part of a plea bargain where he plead no-contest to a tax evasion charges. Nixon then appointed Gerald Ford as Vice-President, and Ford served the remainder of Nixon's term after Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal.

...which make more noise than a chainsaw on full-throttle, scientists have claimed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771091/Stop-toll-bells-Swiss-cattle-deaf-cow-bells-louder-chainsaw-say-scientists.html#ixzz4J8OHOYFg

(I found this when I was searching for whatever happened to the Ponderosa replica park near Lake tahoe in NV--land sold)

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Only 2% of Earth's population naturally has green eyes. (wow-- I'm in the 2%)

When a male penguin falls in love with female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.

Crying makes you feel better, reduce stress, and may help to keep the body healthy.

Mount Everest is pronounced as Eve-rest, not Ever-est , as it is named after George Everest.

All pandas in the world are on loan from China.

When howling together, no two wolves will howl on the same note, instead, they harmonize to create the illusion that there are more of them than there actually are.

Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

India’s “Go Air” airline only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter, so they save up to US $500,000 per year in fuel.

At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.

The most common color for highlighters is yellow because it doesn’t leave a shadow on the page when photocopied.

The Bermuda Triangle has as many ship and plane disappearances as any other region of the ocean.

Dolphins recognize and admire themselves in mirrors.

After working out, it takes 5 hours for your body temperature to return to normal.

Children have more taste buds than adults.

The eye makes movements 50 times every second.

An ant’s sense of smell is stronger than a dog’s.

A day on Venus lasts longer than a year, it is 243 Earth days.

A snail breathes through its foot.

Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.

Cat kidneys are so efficient they can rehydrate by drinking seawater.

During a car crash, 40% of drivers never even hit the brakes.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.

Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

Banana milkshake is the perfect cure for hangover.

90% of U.S. media (TV, news, radio) is owned by 6 companies.

Goldfish don’t have stomachs.

Some tumors can grow hair, bones and teeth.

Taking a quick nap after learning can help strengthen your memory.

Having friends from other cultures makes you more creative, study found.

Cherries can cause cancer cells to kill themselves.

Cracking knuckles does not hurt your bones or cause arthritis, the sound you hear is gas bubbles bursting.

Shark pregnancies last up to 4 years.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

Smiling actually boosts your immune system.

Dogs and elephants are the only animals that understand pointing.

The main exporter of Brazil nuts is not Brazil. It’s Bolivia.

At rest, your brain burns one fifth of a calorie per minute.

A single tree can absorb more than 10 pounds of CO2 each year.

Amazon River once flowed in the opposite direction, from east to west.

...with hair and teeth are called teratomas.

...green eye thing. Cool!

I hope you recovered well.

We have another thing in common: we love ze kitties!!

He may be under a parking lot but nobody knows for sure.

http://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-articles-of-confederation/john-hanson-story/

When they change jobs, they change their brain chemistry.

Bees are hardwired to do certain jobs. Scout bees, which search for new sources of food, are wired for adventure. Soldier bees, discovered in 2012, work as security guards their whole life. One percent of all middle-aged bees become undertakers—a genetic brain pattern compels them to remove dead bees from the hive. But most amazingly, regular honeybees—which perform multiple jobs in their lifetime—will change their brain chemistry before taking up a new gig.

Sourced: http://mentalfloss.com/article/53691/13-fascinating-facts-about-bees

That's because it's copper-based, instead of iron-based like most animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

The blood of the Atlantic horseshoe crab can be used to detect bacteria in medical applications like the sterility of instruments and vaccines. They only take about 30% of their blood at a time. They realize them back to the ocean and 70 to 90% survive.

is so they can more easily determine the direction of an air current (wind on wet skin feels colder), and thus where an odor is coming from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinarium

Seems obvious, but I never realized why they lick their noses.

Is not what it sounds like if you say the word.


Definition of horologist

or any other varietal wine for that matter.

is a person who studies flags. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexillology

And lots of it..

...Al Jolson wanted to play Porgy...

was running in reverse as it crossed the Continental Divide.

If you dug straight down from any point in the lower 48, you'll come out at the bottom of the Indian Ocean

Monday night...October 15, 1951..there were 180 episodes in all..

The last of the episodes was shown on May 6, 1957. All were on Monday nights on CBS Network..

...that colleges/universities have equal numbers of sports and scholarships for men and women, and because there is no women's football, there are many more D1 soccer scholarships for women than there are for men.

Swedish or Russian. In fact, it's so different from either language, it's a bit of a linguistic mystery. No one knows where it originated. And the only language that is even remotely similar to Finnish is Hungarian. And Hungary is a fair distance away from Finland.

Very curious. It's is believed to predate the Indo-European languages.

Okzitanien (Occitanian spoken in France) and Sikanua (formerly spoken in Sicily).

Humphrey Bogart liked dry martinis.

Wolf

derived from Latin and related to both French and Spanish, but older. It's similar to Catalan, spoken in Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language It really isn't related to Basque - nothing is.

Which on examination is not a separate language, just another Euskera dialect, like Zuberoanu.

Wolf

You are right about Occitan, which IIRC is related to Gascon and Provencale.

I think these old languages are fascinating.

...spends 11 months of the year debating grammar and for one month of the year, everyone agrees to speak Swedish and get all their work done.

This is probably why Finland is such a nice and peaceful country except when the Russians are invading it, which happens at least once a century.

If that's what you want to do.

when horses get up they rise from the front

They didn't want their faces on any currency because of the association with monarchies having their face on currency. The first president who had his face on a was President Lincoln in 1909 followed by George Washington in 1932. Both would probably speak against it being done now.

No living person can have their image on a coin meant for circulation.

It is allowed on Commemorative coins though. The first living person to have their likeness put on a commemorative coin was Alabama Gov. T.E. Kilby in 1921. The first President which had a commemorative coin made with his likeness while alive was President Calvin Coolidge in 1926.

The new Presidential coins are minted for circulation so they cannot be made unless the President has been dead at least 2 years.

escape.

Was a afghan hound in 2006. "Snuppy" was cloned by disgraced Korean scientist scientist Hwang Woo-Suk.

At least, among the ones that I have tasted.

Basque is the oldest, followed by the Galician Celtic language, and Catalan--which the whole east of Spain would have ended up speaking if the Arabs hadn't invaded the south and center, and stayed for 700 years--has written texts that pre-date texts in "Spanish (correct: Castilian)" by at least a century. The vulgar Latin spoken in the Iberian peninsula was evolving when the Arabs invaded, and in areas where they established themselves, the emerging language of the locals got heavily influenced by their Arab occupiers. In the part of Spain where I used to live, no one ever asks if you understand or speak "Spanish/español," but rather if you speak or understand "castellano (Castilian)." The local language in the part of Spain where I used to live is not that. Where I used to live, the local language was (and still is) Catalan (català), which is similar to medieval southern French (Langue d'Oc). So, whenever anyone asks me if I speak "Spanish," I usually ask which one (neuk piskat Euskera aitxutendot).

Is THAT obscure and useless enough for you?

Upper, lower and nictating.

Brahma's are the worst. Not at all like the sweet Wyandottes.

...quite volatile and can be distilled.

The rhenium heptafluoride in a molten cesium fluoride mixture will form a octacoordinate octafluororhenate.

I never realized this myself, and I've been muttering to myself for about a year about whether or not an irradiated tungsten alloy with technetium (to improve machinability) placed in a neutron flux could be usefully recycled to collect the rare and very expensive element rhenium, which the world is about to run out of.

I don't think you might find this interesting, but it is rather random and obscure.

according to some...once measured at 156 degrees..
according to others...Death Valley California...136 degrees...

The way the temperatures are measured is the argument..not the degrees..still anything over 95..too hot for me.....I once was in Yuma Az..temp measured at 111...oh my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After finding out Jackie Wilson was broke, Dick Clark continued to pay for all of Jackie Wison's medical expenses until his eventual death 8 years later.

are found interesting.

some say that number is 151, some say that number is 164..I honestly don't know the truth about breeds of dogs...but..many dogs are nicer than many people.......!!!!!!!!

of beautiful Two Harbors Minnesota

the 3 "M"s are Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing

The little house where it was founded is now a museum.


Now I'm homesick

considered leaving acting to become a lawyer.

But there is no evidence of a person by that name ever having written a play.

Several animals have forked penises (hemipenis) including snakes.

Cats have barbed penises (peni?) The pain of intercourse stimulates ovulation in the female, so when you hear all that caterwauling when they mate it's because it hurts!

than soft shell lobsters.

https://www.mainelobsternow.com/blog/why-maine-lobster/maine-hard-shell-lobsters-vs-soft-shell-lobsters/?p=194/#utm_sguid=152639,a9133fa6-6b06-2e89-ae26-7ca8d68d188e

There's a whole repertoire of tunes from that era that have been all but abandoned.

Their right hand on a canopy handhold, not the flight stick! True fact!