Did you know ... ?

[White St*r]

DYK that 50% of what people say when they are joking they actually mean they just dont want to have to deal with the rejection.

lol, was that a joke?

DYK : All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.

 

[rachewil15]

DYK:

40% of all the almonds in the world are used by chocolate manufacturers

 

[White St*r]

DYK : Almonds are members of the peach family.

 

[White St*r]

DYK : The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber
machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded
into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."

 

[Star_Flower21]

DYK that ants always know when it's going to rain? They can be seen plugging up the upper holes of their nests with clumps of dirt just before a shower(presumably so they don't get flooded out)

 

[Star_Flower21]

DYK : Almonds are members of the peach family.

DKY that tomatoes and potatoes not only rhyme but are in the same plant family too
lol

 

[~Wisdom Seeker~]

DYK that 50% of what people say when they are joking they actually mean they just dont want to have to deal with the rejection.

I knew that sarcasm is by and large based on what a person really means. Something I get in trouble for all the time.

DYK that I started this exact thread about a month ago and nobody wanted to play it? I think it's title is even the same.

DYK that the Pacific Ocean is three times larger than the largest continent?

 

[White St*r]

(You got to nurture it .... )

DYK : The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

 

[bill'swife]

dyk that Savedsis is my Mother?

 

[White St*r]

Nice ...

DYK : Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

 

[White St*r]

DYK : Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet
came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

 

[White St*r]

DYK : The first hard drive available for the Apple HD had a capacity of
5 megabytes. 1337!!

 

[White St*r]

DIK : Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

 

[White St*r]

DIK : Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is
number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

 

[White St*r]

DIK : If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being
able to make change for a dollar.

 

[White St*r]

DIK : Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 

[~Wisdom Seeker~]

Did you know that the mother that Jack Nicholson always knew as his mother was actually his grandmother? And the sister he had always known as his sister was actually his mother? Did you know that he didn't know this until some reporter found out and reported it?

 

[~Wisdom Seeker~]

(You got to nurture it .... )

I did dude! But, there is a point when nurturing takes on a pathetic neediness. Know what I mean? There is only so much you can do.

Sometimes you just have to cut your losses and move on. Know what I mean James?

DYK that Thomas Jefferson, the American president aka "Old Hickory" was Scots Irish?

 

[Inbox24]

DYK that Song Jiang was poisoned by corrupt ministers?

 

[bill'swife]

dyk that the Ohio River which is the sothern border for Ohio is actually owned by it's neighboring state West Virginia?