tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703087781234371782024-03-04T22:02:38.254-06:00Datum OverloadWill you ever need to know these things? Probably not...but I'll tell you anyway.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-25071318412341603812010-04-20T12:00:00.000-05:002010-04-20T12:00:04.368-05:00A gallon of water weighs 8.335 pounds.<div>SeaWorld's Shamu tank holds 7,000,000 gallons. That means the water alone outweighs the average female killer whale by 58,338,350 pounds.</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-47511042391708249552010-04-19T12:00:00.000-05:002010-04-19T12:00:04.315-05:00Banana plants have been used to make textiles in Japan since the 13th century...Harvested shoots are boiled in lye in preparation for yarn-making and produce varying degrees of softness, suitable for everything from tablecloths to kimonos.<div>Yep...banana yarn. :)</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-74154849895223550382010-04-18T14:38:00.004-05:002010-04-18T17:27:39.252-05:00Caterpillars have about 4,000 muscles...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-O9Oj5avfOGwjT1okDkd5A28wBJdNLOJFLwNEyHW6pVCBZQzSImLKi5bLuPbhSwhbkjegqsCNeeVTp1srv6RZOD70NvhWZLG9SrVWs3D6fEXWBC_EJsYJA77pvvARqG1vv6fT5BkDOK0/s1600/caterpillar.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-O9Oj5avfOGwjT1okDkd5A28wBJdNLOJFLwNEyHW6pVCBZQzSImLKi5bLuPbhSwhbkjegqsCNeeVTp1srv6RZOD70NvhWZLG9SrVWs3D6fEXWBC_EJsYJA77pvvARqG1vv6fT5BkDOK0/s200/caterpillar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461607755363701106" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Humans have 629.</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-81408419935543967612009-10-10T07:49:00.002-05:002009-10-10T07:53:53.392-05:00The Twinkie was invented in 1930...as a way to utilize shortcake pans that were previously only used during strawberry season. The original Twinkie contained a banana cream filling that was replaced with vanilla cream during the World War II banana shortage.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-90323761532511109692009-10-07T18:59:00.002-05:002009-10-07T19:07:21.577-05:00Crayola was originally an industrial pigment supply company...manufacturing red iron oxide pigments used in barn paint and carbon black chemicals used to make tires black and extend their life span.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-64964204369960761792009-10-05T16:59:00.000-05:002009-10-05T17:00:41.893-05:00A bowling pin...needs to tip only 7.5 degrees in order to fall over.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-40534829990654075022009-10-04T18:36:00.002-05:002009-10-04T18:44:01.910-05:00Wells Fargo once monopolized long-distance overland stage coach...and mail services. By 1866 the company owned Pony Express and received $600,000 a year in government grants for mail service. Along with carrying mail, for $200 a person could ride along on the 22 day trip from St. Louis, Missouri to San Francisco, California.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-9249745818300287832009-10-03T08:48:00.003-05:002009-10-03T08:51:07.999-05:00The current in the Congo river is so strong...that some scientists believe that fish of the <i>same</i> species, separated by the strong waters, are actually evolving in completely different ways!VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-50216309746443176662009-09-30T18:17:00.001-05:002009-09-30T18:19:28.516-05:00The largest venomous snake in the world...is the king cobra. At over 16 feet in length, it can raise enough of its body off of the ground to look a standing human in the eye.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-44672208305045761832009-09-29T19:40:00.001-05:002009-09-29T19:43:03.963-05:00The largest cave in the world...is the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia. It's so big that it could hold the White House, the Capitol and Washington's National Mall.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-12612703609397320872009-09-28T18:17:00.003-05:002009-09-28T18:26:12.030-05:00Armadillos are used in the scientific research of leprosy.It is one of very few nonhuman species that can contract the disease.<div><br /></div><div>Each litter of the Nine-banded Armadillo contains a set of genetically identical quadruplets. The litters are used in scientific, behavioral and medical tests requiring consistent genetic test subjects.</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-16498949815395986492009-09-27T15:58:00.002-05:002009-09-27T16:04:09.689-05:00After a 35 day gestation period...koalas (called joeys) are born hairless, earless and blind.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-16556219994216366482009-09-25T22:31:00.003-05:002009-09-25T22:45:06.435-05:00Dragonflies live underwater during their larval stage...and breathe through gills. This stage may last as long as five years for some large dragonflies. Once ready to become adults they will climb out of the water where exposure to air causes them to begin breathing. They then crawl out of their old skin to become the dragonflies we all know and love.<div><br /></div><div>:)</div><div><br /></div><div>Bonus fact...dragonflies have six legs but can not walk.</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-90466294344229884112009-09-23T21:29:00.001-05:002009-09-23T21:31:16.119-05:00Honeybees kill more people each year...than do all of the world's poisonous snakes combined.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-21728425089145513792009-09-22T09:00:00.002-05:002009-09-22T09:00:02.096-05:00Bull sharks have been spotted as far up the Mississippi river as St. Louis, Missouri.Only 4 families of elasmobranch (the subclass of cartilaginous fish that includes skates, rays and sharks) enter freshwater. Of those, bull sharks are the best known species.VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-90162719245445487942009-09-21T17:23:00.003-05:002009-09-21T17:48:50.094-05:00A moonbow (or lunar rainbow) is caused by light reflected off of the surface of the moon.<div>The faintness of the light makes them difficult to see. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); ">Moonbows</span> reoccur naturally in very few places. Your best bets? Cumberland Falls, in Kentucky, or Victoria Falls, in southern Africa.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/LunarRainbowVicFalls_small.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 340px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/LunarRainbowVicFalls_small.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Moonbow over Victoria Falls, Photo by Calvin Bradshaw</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-36853521018300520572009-09-20T21:14:00.000-05:002009-09-20T21:20:17.610-05:00If you stand at the top of Mount Izaru in Costa Rica...you can see both the Pacific <i>and </i>the Atlantic oceans.<br /><br />:) -VJVanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770308778123437178.post-67593641408791587402009-09-19T23:59:00.000-05:002009-09-20T00:18:24.653-05:00There are only two mammals that do not have belly buttons.Mammals give birth to live young. The umbilical cord leaves a scar that varies in appearance from species to species. There are only two exceptions..the platypus and the echidna (or spiny anteater). They are the only remaining members of the monotreme family...mammals that lay eggs.<div><br /></div><div>:) -VJ</div>VanJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04059095002619755847noreply@blogger.com0