Did you know...the largest piece of hail(hailstone) ever recorded fell in Coffeyville, Kansas on September 3, 1979. It was 17.5 inches in diameter - that's several inches larger than a basketball!And the weight was reported to be 1.67 pounds. The deadliest hailstorm on record occurred April 30, 1888 in India where 246 people perished! In the Sichuqan Province of China in 1986 over one hundred people were killed in a hailstorm. Some of the individual hailstones weighed over two pounds. Cross sections of h...
Did you know....In Silver Lake, Colorado on April 14,1921 this town received the greatest amount of snowfall in 24 hours than any other place in the US It measured up to 75.8 inches. That's almost 7 feet of snow, and we have trouble with a few inches....Another impressive record of 63 inches was registered in Georgetown, Colorado on December 4, 1913. How would you like to shovel those driveways??
Did you know the "huddle" in football began in 1894 when a deaf football player,Paul Hubbard, the quarterback player at Gallaudet University, using sign language, had his team group around him to prevent the opposition from seeing his signals.
Did you know some people have many "Certificates of Live Birth"?But the real question is "How many Birth Certificates can a person have?The mystery of where Obama was born has become one everyone has been asking.There have been documents produced that have not proven a thing but the fact that he was born alive...Here is another one we can ponder...
Did you know...Toilet tissue/paper isn't as old as you may think...Needless to say we have NOT always had Toilet tissue/paper; and it was some time before it was invented even though people saw the need for such an item long before it became a household necessity. So what did people use before toilet paper??? First it was the hand,(gross!) grass, (that's a little better) leaves, (much better if they were soft) corn cobs and even rocks.(that must have been hard) The ancient Greeks used stones and pieces o...
Did you know...Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has many moons, as much as 27 that we know of.Uranus, the only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than from Roman mythology:The name Uranus means "small light" and refers to the pale light emitted by the planet as seen from Earth. It takes Uranus 84 (Earth) years to revolve around the Sun. Uranus has 27 known natural moons. All of these moons have names chosen from characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alex...
Did You Know....No Congress, no President has been strong enough to stand up to the foreign-controlled Federal Reserve Bank. Yet there is a catch - one that President Kennedy recognized before he was slain - the original deal in 1913 creating the Federal Reserve Bank had a simple backout clause. The investors loaned the United States Government $1 billion. And the backout clause allows the United States to buy out the system for that $1 billion. If the Federal Reserve Bank were demolished and the Congres...
Did You Know... It is possible to get over ONE MILLION visits to your BLOG!Don't think so??? Well Tina at TUTU TINA has done just that! Break out the champagne....Put on your party hat and go to TUTU TINA's to help her celebrate this event. For a big thank you to all her visitors Tina is giving away (Drum roll please!...) MONEY and ADVERTISING on her blog. Why is her blog so interesting? She is always helping others make their blog better. She has so much to offer I can't begin to list them here. What ...
Did You Know... For most foods the expiration date indicates the last day the food should be eaten?BUT not for EGGS...for eggs there is an exception: Federally graded fresh eggs in their shells are safe for consumption for three(3) tofive(5) weeks after the expiration date on the carton, as long as they are not cracked and kept under refrigeration. So don't throw away your eggs if they have reached the date on the carton, you can still eat them safely.
Did you know... * Jesus said no one has gone to heaven except Himself * "Christmas" is not mentioned in the Bible * "Three Wise Men" appear nowhere in the Bible, and none are ever mentioned visiting baby Jesus in a Bethlehem manger * The Bible doesn't say Jesus died on a Friday, or rose from the grave Sunday morning * There were not just two of every kind of animal aboard Noah's Ark * The word "Easter" has vanished from today's Bibles * The practice of decking a tree with silver and gold is actually cond...
