Facts about dogs
1. It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.
2.If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
3.A dog's mouth exerts 150-200 pounds of pressure per square inch with some dogs exerting up to 450 pounds per square inch
4. A one-year-old dog is as mature, physically, as a 15-year-old human.
5.Dogs can be trained to detect epileptic seizures.
6.87% of dog owners say their dog curls up beside them or at their feet while they watch T.V.
facts from:
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080502082814tsop.nb/topstory.html
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Blog Post #26
A woman in Milwakee was found partially frozen unconsious in a snow bank sunday morning. The temperature was in the single digits with windchill 15 degrees and below. They believe she wandered into the snow bank a mile from the bar she was at. Her body temperature had decreased to 70 degrees. She had been trying to get into cars for somewhere warm to stay, and was in the cold for more than six hours.
Blog Post #25
Last thrusday, a plane crashed into the hudson river after running into birds which flew into the engine setting it on fire, causing the plane to fail taking off and crash into the later. The pilot got everyone out safely, and everyone survived the crash. He went back twice to check the plane to see if anyone was left risking his life for his passengers. This past weekend they have been looking at the plane to confirm it was birds that caused the plane to crash.
Blog Post #24
The FDA is warning people to hold off eating products with peanuts. There have been 474 related samonella outbreaks related to products with peanuts. The direct company has not been identified yet. The FDA cannot have the authority to order a recall on the product, congress would have to pass a law for them to do this. At least six people have died because of this. So watch out for those peanuts!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Blog Post #23
A father accidently spilled acid on his four children, ages 14, 7, 4, and 18 months. He called CNN asking them to video tape him as he turned himself in. He was shouting "I would never throw acid at nobody. It was an accident,". They don't have much information on the incident but the 4 children are in the hospital. The seven year old isn't doing that well, but the others are getting along.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Blog Post #22
Random facts about the ocean animals:
1.Dolphins have poor eyesight, so they use echoes to see.
2.Whales are the biggest animals known. The Blue Whale is the largest animal to ever inhabit the Earth. They live about 80 years. They are also the oldest and are endangered.
3.The octopus has 8 symmetric arms
4.There are 8 species of sea turtles: Olive Ridley, Green, Loggerhead, Leatherback, Hawksbill, Flatback, Black, and Kemp’s Ridley.
5. Starfish have between five and forty arms
6.. Whale familes remain together for life. And these whales also communicate to each other through whistles
1.Dolphins have poor eyesight, so they use echoes to see.
2.Whales are the biggest animals known. The Blue Whale is the largest animal to ever inhabit the Earth. They live about 80 years. They are also the oldest and are endangered.
3.The octopus has 8 symmetric arms
4.There are 8 species of sea turtles: Olive Ridley, Green, Loggerhead, Leatherback, Hawksbill, Flatback, Black, and Kemp’s Ridley.
5. Starfish have between five and forty arms
6.. Whale familes remain together for life. And these whales also communicate to each other through whistles
Blog Post #21
Random facts about animals
1.A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
2.Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
3.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
4.You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
5.A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
6.The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.
7.The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
8.Jellyfish do not have brains.
9.Owls are the only animal to lower its upper eyelid to blink.
10.Dalmatians are born without spots.
11.roosters cannot crow unless they can extend their necks.
12.when hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
1.A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
2.Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
3.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
4.You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
5.A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
6.The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.
7.The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
8.Jellyfish do not have brains.
9.Owls are the only animal to lower its upper eyelid to blink.
10.Dalmatians are born without spots.
11.roosters cannot crow unless they can extend their necks.
12.when hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
Blog Post #20
Funny random facts:
1.If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
2.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
3.The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There wasnever a recorded Wendy before
4.Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wearpants.
5.Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie ChaplinLook-alike contest.
6.The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
7.Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
8.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
9.In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
10.Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
11.There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
12.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
13.We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again.
14.an island is defined as being an islandonly if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep
15.If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China
1.If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
2.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
3.The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There wasnever a recorded Wendy before
4.Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wearpants.
5.Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie ChaplinLook-alike contest.
6.The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
7.Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
8.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
9.In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
10.Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
11.There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
12.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
13.We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again.
14.an island is defined as being an islandonly if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep
15.If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China
Blog Post #19
Random facts about humans:
1.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
2.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
3.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks orit will digest itself.
4.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
5.Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better
6.The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
7.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
8.The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
9.The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
10.Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
11.If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
12.In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
13.The roar that we hear when we hold a seashell up to our ear is not the ocean but the blood surging through the veins in our ear.
14.The reason honey is so easy to digest is becasue its already been digested by a bee.
15. Buttons on a men shirts are on the right, and buttons on women shirts ar eon the left.
1.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
2.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
3.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks orit will digest itself.
4.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
5.Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better
6.The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
7.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
8.The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
9.The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
10.Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
11.If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
12.In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
13.The roar that we hear when we hold a seashell up to our ear is not the ocean but the blood surging through the veins in our ear.
14.The reason honey is so easy to digest is becasue its already been digested by a bee.
15. Buttons on a men shirts are on the right, and buttons on women shirts ar eon the left.
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