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GETTING MARRIED IN NEW
JERSEY
IS NOT PROFITABLE!!!!!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed
people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric
tons)!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called
the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio
signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered
trademark of AT&T.
Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you
suffocated because there's no air pressure.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball
of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
No one seems to know why people blush.
In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the
common cold by freezing the big toe.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, was home to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state
Springfield is in.
Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on
Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.
Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in
January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty
thousand.
If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your
time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.
Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery
store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought
there is bought on impulse. Supermarkets report very strong sales of
almost anything they stock at the check-out line.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the
U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m.
or 3 a.m.
Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200
Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct
contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
The average New York City household generates 6.2 pounds of
garbage each day.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so
many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even
an olive branch with 13 leaves on it. Of course the $1 bill is
unlucky - if it was lucky it would be a $100 bill.
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.
Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United
States' national income.
Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at
least once a year.
In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a
moving trolley car.
In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he
does not keep her supplied with coffee.
President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the
world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last
drop."
In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver
after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer
Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda
MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light
pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had
hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to
Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It
came with the car when I bought it."
When police arrived in Appleton, Wisconsin to remove a woman's
children because of a complaint that she had given her 11-year-old
daughter a "swirlie" (Holding her head in a flushing
toilet). The woman reportedly said, "I haven't had a vacation
in 13 years, go ahead and take them!"
A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the
capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned
himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20
year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.
A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative
defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and
removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail
to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense
committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge
replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to
one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he
chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he
detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.
In 1970, Russel T. Tansie, an Arizona lawyer filed a $100,000
damage lawsuit against God. The suit was filed on behalf of Mr.
Tansie's secretary, Betty Penrose, who accused God of negligence in
His power over the weather when He allowed a lightning bolt to
strike her home. Ms. Penrose won the case when the defendant failed
to appear in court. Whether or not she collected has not been
recorded.
A man went in to rob a bank. He demanded the clerk to give him
all the money. They told him to go sit out in his car and they would
bring him the bags of money. He agreed and went out to his car. In
the meantime, the people in the bank called the police. When they
got there the man was still sitting in his car waiting for the money
and they arrested him
R.C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were
showing their squad car computer felon-location equipment to
children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system
worked, the officer asked him for identification. Gaitlan gave them
his drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and moments
later they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen showed
Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis,
Missouri.
Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a convenience
store in district court when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district
attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47, was doing a fair job of
defending himself until the store manager testified that Newton was
the robber. Newton jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then
said, "I should have blown your head off." The defendant
paused, then quickly added, "If I'd been the one that was
there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Newton and
recommended a 30-year sentence.
A judge in Louisville decided a jury went "a little bit too
far" in recommending a sentence of 5,005 years for a man who
was convicted of five robberies and a kidnapping. The judge reduced
the sentence to 1,001 years.
Eugene-Francois Midocq, a French thief and outlaw, evaded the
police for years, turned police spy, joined the force as a
detective, and ultimately used his knowledge of crime to establish a
new crime-fighting organization, the Surete.
- How much is inside a print cartridge?
- No one knows for sure but it's never enough to print out all
your porn.
- How much is inside a ketchup packet?
- About one-fifth of the amount one needs to enjoy French fries.
- How much is inside one of those 40' shipping containers?
- No one knows, because they are always sealed shut.
- How much is inside a couple of "D" cell batteries?
- They last forever or until you need to use them which ever comes
first
- How much is inside a bag of Doritos?
- Everyone knows that there are just the right amount of chips in
a bag to make you feel queasy
- How much Paper is there in a Sunday Newspaper?
- Precisely the size of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
- How much silly string is in a can?
- How much blood is in a human being?
- Hard to tell. Until now. 6 quarts the same amount of oil in you
engine
- How much expanding foam is there in a can?
- Lots. The 20 oz. can. is enough to make a foam girl friend
- How much Cheese is there in a can of Cheese Whiz?
- None! the orange stuff sure as hell isn't cheese!
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