Did you know that ...................... A 450g (one pound) jar of honey requires .... 1152 .... bees to travel .... 180,246kms .... and visit ... 4.5million flowers... That's 156kms per bee........
You know something... I am very slow... I mean extremely slow.. I just realised that this thread, "For your Information" has been transferred from .... "Not Sure Where it Goes" ....... to ...... "Off Topic Discussions".................. It took me some time to notice it.. When I tell you that I am slow, let me tell you how slow I am..... IT TAKES ME AN HOUR AND HALF TO WATCH 60 MINUTES... now, that's slow !!!! I wonder if all this is because I didn't pay the rent over there and that is why we got evicted.. Hmmmm... maybe it was because we were not welcomed over there.... I don't think so .... Oh well at least we are here and still existing........ Not that it matters but I was just asking...
Did you know that the word.... DREAMT .. is the only word in the English language that ends with ... MT ...
Don....... Yes and No !!! Years ago my mother used to make homontashen which is traditional, but since she passed away, the only way I can get some is to buy it and where I live, it is impossible.. Toronto is about a 20 hour drive from Massey (return) and there is NO way I am going there.. I used to go to synagogue for Purim for the reading of the "Book of Esther" but again unfortunately this year, I have just come down with pneumonia and I am under doctor's care taking antibiotics.. Again, No Way.. Homontashen is a triangle shaped pastry filled with a mixture of prunes, mixed dry fruit, and poppy seeds all containing honey.. There are several versions of it but they are all the same symbol...
Did you know that .......... the word .................. SWIMS ............... can be spelled upside-down.....
Over a lifetime, at your normal (resting) heart rate you will have pumped enough blood to fill thirteen oil super tankers. To further expound on this fact, on average, your heart beats 40,000,000 times per year.
Secret Service Agents are always ready to use their medical skills and perform a blood transfusion if needed. They always carry some extra blood for the president so as not to take chances with donors.
Steve Jobs became a vegan because he believed it would stop him having body odor, reducing his need to shower.
The Wilhelm scream is a sound effect recorded in 1951, and it’s been used in more than 360 films, including Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Titanic.
Did you know that ........... The average human grows between 550 and 600 MILES of hair during their lifetime ......
If you took all the ants on earth (about ten thousand trillion) and put them on one side of a giant scale, you’d have to put all the humans on earth (7.4 billion) on the other side to balance it out...... Yes, the total weight of all the ants on earth equals the weight of all the people......
Did you know that if you put a picnic sandwich on the picnic blanket, half of those ants will be on it in a few minutes?