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I am working on refinishing my basement and am putting up steel studding on the walls. We were trying to screw through a piece of steel and my friend today said something to the effect that you would need a handful diamonds to get through it. That made me think that there are probably some strange facts about diamonds that I never thought of.
- Most of the diamonds in the world are used for industrial purposes and not for getting your girlfriend off of your back.
- Less than 1% of women will ever wear a diamond that is one carat or more, my woman being one of them.
- In ancient times diamonds were seen as signs of strength, courage and invincibility.
- Archduke Maximilian of Austria was the first person to give a diamond engagement ring, to Mary of Burgundy in 1477. Blame him.
- The largest Diamond ever found was the Cullinan at 3,106 carats.
- Diamonds can withstand extremely high temperatures so they used in windows on space ships.
- In India, around one million people are employed because of diamond industry, the rest of them answer the phone when my cable goes out.
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The goofy things you find playing around in google. I was looking at a series of industrial hand wheels when I found some very large sized wheels. Actually it was a tank built in 1914. You can see a man standing on top of it to the left and a man on the ground. This beast weighed 40 tons, it's wheels were 9 meters in diameter and oddly enough it got stuck on a small ditch on its first run. It was too big a target for the enemy and it was melted down by 1916.
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This picture will put things into perspective for you. It's massive. A beast. Click on the photo to get the full sized picture, it's easier to read that way.
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I came across this rather interesting list this morning. It is the Wiki List_of_Unusual_Deaths. Some of these are pretty good. It's a rather long list of strange facts but here are a few that caught my eye. They are all sorted by year in history.
1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.[20]
1601: Tycho Brahe, according to legend, died of complications resulting from a strained bladder at a banquet. It would have been extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal was finished, so he stayed until he became fatally ill. This version of events has since been brought into question as other causes of death (murder by Johannes Kepler, suicide, and mercury poisoning among others) have come to the fore.[27]
1753: Professor Georg Wilhelm Richmann, of Saint Petersburg, Russia, became the first recorded person to be killed while performing electrical experiments when he was struck and killed by a globe of ball lightning. [35]
1814: London Beer Flood, 9 people were killed when 323,000 imperial gallons (1 468 000 L) of beer in the Meux and Company Brewery burst out of their vats and gushed into the streets.
1963: Thích Qu?ng ??c, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline, and lit himself on fire, burning himself to death. ??c was protesting President Ngô ?ình Di?m's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.[76]
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I recently happened upon a great list of failed mcdonalds products. It brought back lots of memories of some of the the goofy things I had seen over the years fly out the drive through window. Well actually, I remember the pizza couldn't fit out the window so they had to walk it out the front door. I think they would have sold more if it looked like the pizza below. I also had a friend that couldn't get enough of the old Arch Deluxe but then again he would have eaten anything.
Topp 10 Failed Mcdonalds Products
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I am bored so here are some totally random strange animal facts.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off – it dies from starvation
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
Bulls are color blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
Cat urine glows under a black-light
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?
Porcupines float in water
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair. Crickets hear through their knees.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penisesMore people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. Only female mosquitoes bite.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear
Well it's April Fools Day and I was too lazy to do anything fun this morning but I thought maybe I could post some facts and information about April Fools Day. Here are a few websites that have great information about April Fools Day. Enjoy!
April Fools Day History and Fun Facts
The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Snopes April Fools Day Origins
Here's a YouTube Video of a guy peeing his pants.
I love these because you can always bring up a strange fact when you are out with your buddies or at a party and it will leave people wondering where you got them from.
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
13. All 50 States are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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