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[TyCowboy]

Elephants are the only mammals which can not jump. They are anatomically unable.

Also, to the cat urine comment; most all mammalian urine glows under black light...along with most other fluids...to a greater or lesser extent. Why, I don't know. I just know that in some pre-vet school classes we played with a blacklight on occasion.

Ty.

 

[turnorburn]

There is a law on the books in Seattle Washington that says you must clean up your horse's dung before you leave the site, um... :wink:

 

[6640]

Here are a few odd coincidences I found.

English politician Edmund Berry Godfrey was found murdered on October 17, 1678. His body was left in a ditch on Greenberry Hill in London. Three men were arrested and tried for the crime. there names were Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill.

In 1906 aboard the German ship Grosser Kurfurst, sailing from Bremen to New York, six babies were born. One in first class, twins in second class, and triplets in third class.

On December 5, 1664, a boat sank while crossing the Menai Strait in the Irish Sea. Only one of 81 passengers survived, a man named Hugh Williams. on December 5, 1785 another boat sank in the same place. the only survivor was a man named Hugh Williams. on August 5, 1820, 24 passengers on a boat died and one man lived. His name was Hugh Williams.

In 1974, at the Pepperidge Farm plant in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, an employee was killed when he fell into a vat of chocolate. His name was Robert C.H. Hershey.

 

[turnorburn]

Deadliest spider is your garden variety daddy long legs

 

[godblessyou.tv]

Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House

 

[turnorburn]

:crazyeyes: It never rains in Califonia

 

[godblessyou.tv]

:crazyeyes: It never rains in Califonia

Hm, I thought that was only SOUTHERN California??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVv1zvepv8k

 

[turnorburn]

It is

 

[OfficerCarson]

scorpians are pretty much blind as a rock

a fly lands on a cieling by putting it's legs above its body

a fly spits on its food then eats the food

you can not out swim a water mocasin

almost all of mount Saint hellens siesmic earth quakes are in a strait rows if you stand on top of the dome then look into the valley.

you can die from laughing to much (swallow your tongue)

and those little wax soda bottles, you are supose to bite the heads off then drink them, not eat the wax and the juice

i love the one posted a couple above
a scorpian will sting it self if achohol is poured on it- gret way to kill them i guess- does rubbing alcohol work too?- (under the age of drinking) and like my license too- besides alcohol is for whimps who don't face life.

 

[turnorburn]

I was there the morning Mt. St. Helens erupted

 

[stovebolts]

I was there the morning Mt. St. Helens erupted

So was I! My brother and I were walking across town when the cloud came in from the west and started dumping it's ash! We honestly thought that the end of the world had come!

 

[OfficerCarson]

sweet always wanted to visit it

 

[turnorburn]

The mountain left six to eight inches of ash, along with a phenomenal amount of pumice stone the closer to the mountain you got. All I have left to show for it is a bottle of ash I picked up
at the Tatoosh pharmacy :

 

[stovebolts]

I think my Dad has a couple quart jars that he scraped off the driveway :-D
If your driving to Pasco, you can still see it on the side of the road! (how's that for useless information)

Now, something your sure to enjoy 8-)

Washington grows more potatoes that Idaho ;-)

 

[turnorburn]

The Autograph Tree in Florida :wink:

A dense, neat looking tree that is very salt, wind, and drought tolerant. Known as autograph tree because guests to your home can scratch their name onto the surface of a leaf and the mark will remain for quite a long time.

Useless as well, rather interesting though :-D