Here are some more interesting facts for everyone...
Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) That's the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray "cloud" almost directly overhead in a clear night sky
A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun
Stars viewed through even the largest telescopes look like tiny points of light. But astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph a star called Betelgeuse (pronounced "beetle jooze"), have now been able to see the surface of another star. Betelgeuse is a red, giant star located at the left shoulder of the constellation Orion and is the largest known star in our galaxy.
The lead in pencils, really graphite, is made of the exact same thing as diamonds. Both are pure carbon which just formed under different pressures and temperatures. Intense heat and pressure form the carbon atoms into crystals making diamond, while lesser heat and pressure form the carbon into sheets making graphite.
Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid.
A giant game of cosmic pool was played when the solar system was first formed billions of years ago. Neptune was hit by an asteroid so big it was knocked sideways on its axis. It orbits with one pole pointed at the sun. (which is why its rings go from north to south). Venus was hit so hard it is almost upside down and is the only planet to spin backwards on its axis.
Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick.
When high speed trains past each other they must slow down or they will break their windows. The passing trains produce a low-pressure area between them that can actually pull the glass out of the frames.
The fear of spiders is called arachnophobia. Some other phobias are hydrophobia (fear of water), triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), ecclesiaphobia (fear of churches), pogonophobia (fear of beards), ergophobia (fear of work).
Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!
A "ten gallon" hat only holds 3 quarts.
The "S" in Harry S Truman does not stand for anything
The From-Me-to-You songs for the moment:
"Vissi d'Arte" from the opera "Tosca"
"The Noose" by A Perfect Circle
"Life in Mono" by Mono
and
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil (for "her"...she knows who she is...)
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Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) That's the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray "cloud" almost directly overhead in a clear night sky
A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun
Stars viewed through even the largest telescopes look like tiny points of light. But astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph a star called Betelgeuse (pronounced "beetle jooze"), have now been able to see the surface of another star. Betelgeuse is a red, giant star located at the left shoulder of the constellation Orion and is the largest known star in our galaxy.
The lead in pencils, really graphite, is made of the exact same thing as diamonds. Both are pure carbon which just formed under different pressures and temperatures. Intense heat and pressure form the carbon atoms into crystals making diamond, while lesser heat and pressure form the carbon into sheets making graphite.
Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid.
A giant game of cosmic pool was played when the solar system was first formed billions of years ago. Neptune was hit by an asteroid so big it was knocked sideways on its axis. It orbits with one pole pointed at the sun. (which is why its rings go from north to south). Venus was hit so hard it is almost upside down and is the only planet to spin backwards on its axis.
Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick.
When high speed trains past each other they must slow down or they will break their windows. The passing trains produce a low-pressure area between them that can actually pull the glass out of the frames.
The fear of spiders is called arachnophobia. Some other phobias are hydrophobia (fear of water), triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), ecclesiaphobia (fear of churches), pogonophobia (fear of beards), ergophobia (fear of work).
Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!
A "ten gallon" hat only holds 3 quarts.
The "S" in Harry S Truman does not stand for anything
The From-Me-to-You songs for the moment:
"Vissi d'Arte" from the opera "Tosca"
"The Noose" by A Perfect Circle
"Life in Mono" by Mono
and
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil (for "her"...she knows who she is...)
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thora:
Thanks again! I paid my phone bill today!!
stina:
i cant mail out valentines if i dont know where to send them! 