July 2010
Donna Simpson weighs 602 pounds but wants to double her weight to become the world’s fattest woman.
She already won the record for fattest mother in 2007. She aspires to weigh 1,000 pounds. To do this, she plans to consume 12,000 calories every day (about 6 times what you should).
Her partner, Phillipe, is encouraging her on her quest to reach 1,000 pounds. He only weighs 150.
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Whistling does not cause your throat to vibrate. Try it!
Some men only shave the left side of their face….because they don’t know there is a right side as well.
The condition known as “hemispatial neglect” causes people to only see/experience/feel one side of their body and one side of the world. This condition can also make people only apply makeup to one side of their face.
It can sometimes cause delusions wherein people...
Some lizards remove their tails when attacked by predators.
When attacked, the lizards detach their tails and run off. The predator feasts on the lizard tail, and the lizard escapes and grows a new tail.
This is a trait that appears in several lizard species. This defense mechanism appears in lizard populations that come into contact with poisonous vipers.
Losing ones tail impairs growth and...
The day after US Air Flight 1549 landed safely in the Hudson, so many people played the number 1549 in the lottery that some states shut their lotteries down out of fear that if the number hit, they would lose millions.
Lotteries have a “liability level”, a limit to how much the lottery can give away. If the amount of money that the lottery would give away for a certain number hits...
If you press the “!” button at the Yahoo! Homepage, it will sing “Yaahooooo, yaahooo…!” followed by a girl’s laugh.
Every year, a rumor goes around the internet that some time in August will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Mars, because it will look as big in our sky as the moon.
Why do we see this rumor every year, often in the same time of the year?
August 27, 2003 was when Mars was the closest to our planet that it has ever been in over 50,000 years (35 million miles away, about 144 times as...
YouTube videos taking to long to load? Did you know that you can play “snake” while you wait?
If you get bored while waiting for some of the newer YouTube videos to load, press any of the arrow buttons and a game of snake will begin. You can even continue playing as the video plays! (It’s harder to see when the video’s playing though)
Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants, is also the voice of Dog on Catdog and the Mayor of Townsville on The Powerpuff Girls
He’s also done voice work for Rocko’s Modern Life, Dragon Ball Z, Futurama, and the Fairly Oddparents. He also lent his talents to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and he’ll be playing Rabbit in the new Winnie the Pooh movie.
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Disney Pixars Up is called “Helium” in the Philippines.
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Grigori Rasputin had to be poisoned, shot several times, clubbed and then tossed into a frozen river before he was killed.
When he was found, his autopsy showed that he had died of hypothermia, despite the fact that he was found with a bullet hole in his forehead. Also, despite having consumed enough cyanide to kill several men, the autopsy showed no traces of poison.
Some accounts of his...
The stabbing sound the knife makes in the famous shower scene in Psycho is in fact the sound of a knife stabbing a melon.
And the blood in that scene was actually chocolate syrup! (Remember: it’s a black and white movie)
It took 7 days to shoot this scene, yet the scene itself is only 45 seconds long.
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Even though Ninjas in popular culture wear black, there’s no evidence that historical ninjas ever did.
It was more likely that ninjas would disguise themselves as civilians so that they could blend in with crowds. Since ninjas were supposed to be stealthy, early drawings of ninjas show them in black to convey a sense of invisibility.
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Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones and Vice President Al Gore were college roommates at Harvard.
Jones also co-hosted the Nobel Peace Prize concert when Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the prize in 2007.
Back in college they used to try to seduce women by playing country music. They went to each other’s weddings and remain close friends.
On an unrelated note,...
The United States has more Jewish citizens than the State of Israel.
The U.S. is 2.2% Jewish with 6,489,000 Jews or 45% of the world’s Jews. Israel is 75.5% with 5,569,200, 37% of the world’s Jews.
Strangely enough, the estimated number of Jews in Afghanistan on Wikipedia is ONE.
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You can’t find any addresses in North Korea on Google Maps.
The Satellite view works pretty well, but on map view it doesn’t show any streets, cities or addresses.
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In the 1950s, the United States planned to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon.
At the time, the US was lagging behind the Soviet Union in the space race (For example, they sent a man into space before the US did.) Exploding a nuclear weapon on the moon was a way to one-up the Soviet Union. They planned on nuking the moon as a PR stunt, and they wanted to make sure the explosion could be seen from...
Our sun is so big that 1 million earths could fit inside of it. On the other hand, the largest star known to man is called VY Canis Majoris which could house 9,261,000,000 Suns.
If VY Canis Majoris were put in our sun’s place it would extend past Saturn. VY Canis Majoris can also fit 7×10^15 Earths inside of it (that’s 7 with 15 zeros after it.)
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In Israel, “The Hangover” is called “Stopping in Vegas on the Way to a Wedding”.
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Jonathan Larson, the writer of the musical RENT, never lived to see the final version of the play.
Tragically, Jonathan died the day before the show’s premier. The play changed the lives of people all over the world and involved messages about AIDS, homosexuality, drugs, and living every day to the fullest. Larson posthumously received two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for his work on...
The metal band that bands the pencil with the eraser is called the “Ferrule”.
There are also ferrules in flutes, brushes, golf clubs, pool cues, umbrellas and ice axes. They all serve the function of binding two parts of an object together or reinforcing an object in some way. They are usually metal but can also be plastic.
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A species of Penguins called Galapagos Penguins lives on the equator, they are also the only species of Penguins to live on the Northern Hemisphere.
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Video games can give you seizures.
These are called “Photosensitive Epileptic Seizures”. Even people who do not have epilepsy or have not had seizures before may have seizures playing video games.
The seizures can be triggered by some of the flashing lights and patterns in video games. Some of the symptoms include altered vision, face and eye twitching, shaking limbs, and loss of...
The Slave-Maker ant is a species of ants that enslaves other ants!
The whole process is really complex. The slave-maker queen fakes her own death and gets carried to the host colony. She then wakes up, and then kills and impersonates the queen.
The fake queen will then start making her own offspring, who eventually take over the nest and enslave the previous inhabitants. The slave ants will...
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
Amadeo Peter Giannini started Bank of Italy in San Francisco in 1904. The bank was designed for the hardworking immigrants that the big banks refused to serve. After a merger he changed his bank’s name to Bank of America. After acquiring Merrill Lynch in 2008, Bank of America is now the world largest wealth manager.
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You could shoot RUSSIA from your doorstep…
if you lived on Little Diomede Island in Alaska. You could shoot a long range .408 Chey Tac sniper rifle to Big Diomede Island in Russia, just 2.4 miles away. Don’t expect to hit your exact target, though. The rifle is only accurate up to about 1.4 miles. On the plus side, you’ll send a bullet traveling through time across the...
You CAN’T dig a hole to China from the US. To dig a straight hole to China, you have to be in Chile or Argentina. That’s if you could make your way through the Earth’s nickel-iron core and its 9800-degree heat.
Start digging from anywhere in the United States and you’ll end up in the Indian Ocean. Good luck!
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At only 1 DEGREE above absolute zero, the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the known universe.
Absolute Zero is a theoretical temperature that cannot possibly be reached in our universe. It’s the equivalent of −273.15°C or −459.67°F.
The Boomerang Nebula is a cloud of dust and gas expanding from an old star that is collapsing in on itself. Scientists approximate its extremely...
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
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Al Capone, the famous mob boss, had a brother who was a police officer in Nebraska.
Ironically, Vincent Capone was a federal Prohibition agent. That means he was stopping the illegal bootlegging of alcohol when alcohol was illegal. This was while his little brother, Al Capone, was running a bootlegging empire in Chicago.
Vincent legally changed his name to Richard Hart, but the media still...
In England the dates between the 2nd and 14th of September, 1752 did NOT exist!
After an act of Parliament in 1750, England and its colonies had to change calendars. England was using the Julian calendar which was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar used in the rest of Europe. To do this, they skipped September 3rd-September 13th.
In the Julian Calendar, New Years was on March 25. So...
Headphones have magnets in them!
Test it out for yourself! Next time you have a set of headphone put them near a small piece of metal and see what happens. If you have earbud headphones, try putting the two earbuds together.
The Bible never said there were 3 wise men. The number could have been anything (perhaps HUNDREDS!)
The idea that there were 3 wise men probably comes from the fact that the Gospel of Matthew mentions that the wise men or Magi brought 3 gifts to Jesus.
In fact, the Gospel of Matthew is the only book in the Bible that has any wise men at all. The Gospel of Luke has shepherds visiting baby...
Coca Cola was NEVER green
Contrary to internet lore, Coca-Cola has always been brown. The original Coca-Cola formula contained caramel, which gave it its distinct brown color.
The brown color was important for the purpose of hiding imperfections. With modern production, that’s less of an issue, but it’s still naturally brown in keeping with tradition.
And in case you were...
In “TiK ToK”, Ke$ha says “wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy”. What does that mean?
In an interview, she said that she once wanted all her friends to sleep over because she thought her house was haunted. In the morning, she woke up with a bunch of girls in her bed. And she figured that’s how P. Diddy would wake up in the morning.
Also, did you notice that...
The hole you put your arm through in a shirt is called the “armsaye”.
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After seeing a girl have her father daughter dance in a movie, I ran to my room and cried because I don’t have a dad. My little brother came into my room.
He told me he’d love to walk me down the altar and give me a father daughter dance at my wedding. His LGMH.
My boyfriend is a quiet guy and never really expresses any emotion. Today, I was at his house and we were doing homework. I grabbed his notebook to get something. About 5 pages into it, a list that continued on for 12 pages front and back had all the reasons he loves me. My boyfriend’s quiet LGMH.
When I was about 6, the boy I was going out with asked me to marry him. I said no, we’re too young. But he pinky promised he’d ask me again when we were old enough.
20 years later he came up to me and linked my pinky to his. He asked me to marry him. Jay, your pinky promises and LGMH.
Yesterday I went to a play. A couple was sitting in front of me when I saw the man doing the ‘yawning around the shoulder thing.’
They were close to 80 years old.
Young love that never dies GMH.
I went to my room feeling down. My sister sat with me and asked what was wrong while playing with my label maker. I told her that I thought nobody loved me and then added not to waste the labels.
She printed a label anyway, stuck it on my head, said, “I didn’t waste it”, and left.
I looked in the mirror. The label said ‘I love you’.
I was talking to my boyfriend about New Years Eve kisses. I had never experienced one. I went back to my home town for Christmas holidays, 3 hours away. During the next week I got sick with mono.
He drove down on New Years to give me my kiss at midnight even though I was sick. Chris, your LGMH
Today during my clinicals in a nursing home, I saw an elderly couple in the dementia unit. They live together with their beds pushed together. They have been married over 50 years.
It was like The Notebook in real life… their love and devotion to each other after so many years, and going through so much, gives me hope.
Today my mom and i were driving back from work. I looked on the sidewalk and saw an elderly man in a wheelchair, another elderly woman, and a nurse.
The elderly woman was the one pushing the man’s wheelchair. I saw her refuse to let the nurse do it.
Love that refuses to give up and refusal to stop showing that love GMH.
My parents kicked me out of the house last week, because I’m gay. Today, my sister came and found me. She said she left the house, too. Why? Because my parents couldn’t accept me. My sister’s love and acceptance gives me hope.
I’ve had Alopecia Universis since I was ten years old. I had gotten a wig to wear in public. A few days before a family party I ripped it and was nervous about going to the party.
When my 4 year old cousin said she wished she had magic hair that could come and go, I almost cried. Her innocent love GMH even today.
French may be the language of love, but that’s not what makes it a “Romance language”. Here’s what does:
The Romance languages (e.g. Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Romanian) all began as dialects of Latin. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire (hence, Romance).
You’ll notice that the Romance languages have a lot of similar words. This is because they...
Though the name suggests 1000 legs, no millipede has had more than 750.
The name “millipede” would suggest that the animal has 1000 legs. However, the actual number of legs on a millipede can vary. The species of millipede with the most legs, Illacme plenipes, can have up to 750 legs.
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Actually, lightning CAN strike the same place twice!
This is a common misconception. There is no reason why lightning couldn’t strike the same place twice. The Empire State Building, for instance, gets struck by lightning 100 TIMES EVERY YEAR on average.
This is actually a picture of lightning hitting two places at once. In this case, it hit the Trump Tower and the Willis Tower (Sears...
