Games for Fun and Relaxation Community Group
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A shrimps heart is in it's head.
A shrimps heart is in it's head.
Did you know that there are 5000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas?!
But did you know my grandfather was the sectary of agriculture for the US government when I was a little girl and he held that office for a record number of years . His Name was Grover B Hill . He never graduated from High school.
Wonder no more!!!
It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an extremely ordered and complex life.
The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:
"freeze a jolly good fellow."
To remove a stamp from an envelope, put the envelope in the freezer for a few hours. When you remove it, the stamp will pop right off. The adhesive is still good and the stamp can then be placed wherever you want to use it.
MAYBE YOU CAN FREEZ THINGS THAT HAVE A PRICE TAG STUCK ON THEM TOO TRY IT IT MIGHT WORK
Mamob that is so sweet about the penguins.
Did you know that Oregon is one of two states where it's against the law to pump your own gas? We are quite happy to have someone else pump it for us :) The other state is New Jersey.
I do not know what is the matter with you if it don't.
A cow will produce an average of 6.3 gallons of milk each day. Thatâs more than 2,300 gallons each year.
Most milk only travels about 100 miles from the dairy to the grocery store to ensure farm-fresh quality.
Thought you like to see this amazing farm in Indiana. A modern-day dairy farm, for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJRy82i8e5Q&feature=emai
INTERESTING HISTORY LESSON
Railroad tracks. This is fascinating.
Be sure to read the final paragraph; your understanding of it will depend on the earlier part of the content.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd numberâ¦
Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads, where did they come from? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of (w=2 horsesâ asses). And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horsesâ asses control almost everything......and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.
THE BAT EAT FLYING INSECTS THEY EMERGE FROM THE CAVE EVERY NIGHT AT DUSK
20-40 million bats, the largest concentration of mammals in one place in the world
Each night they eat an estimated 200 tons of insects
During the day, they are packed onto the cave walls at over 200 individuals per square foot
Body heat from the bats raises the temperature in the cave from a natural 68° to an incubational 108°