did you know...



  • ... that because i've got nothing the whole day, i believe I have already accessed all my friends' blogs and photo pages?

    ... that because the damn Operations are not doing their jobs for fixing our tools, I only processed e-docs for 30 minutes during my 9hr shift!

    ... that i've received this e-mail wayback year 2004 but this is the first time I am going to entirely read this Trivia thing?

    and so I am sending this pieces of information to all of you so we can learn a thing or two about LIFE..

    here goes.. :)

    Did you know that...
    Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

    A group of frogs is called an army.

    A group of rhinos is called a crash.

    A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

    A group of whales is called a pod.

    A group of geese is called a gaggle.

    A group of ravens is called a murder.

    A group of officers is called a mess.

    A group of larks is called an exaltation.

    A group of owls is called a parliament.

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    Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

    The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

    The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

    The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

    The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.

    David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

    The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY

    There are only thirteen blimps in the world.

    Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

    The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.

    Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

    The Swiss flag is square.

    The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.

    The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.

    If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.

    The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

    Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

    The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.

    The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

    Emus cannot walk backwards.

    It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.


    that's all folks.. till next time..

Comments

  1. thanks for the wonderful information,sis! makuha nga to hehehe, ay halos lahat totoo nakalagay dito lalo na yung 2 credit cards dito sa states for every person, so true! hayy matutulog nako, sis bukas na lang ako ulet bibisita dito sa unti mong tahanan. ay naku, nagugutom nga pala ako, nakita ko kasi yung sunny side up na itlog sa header mo hehee *drool*

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