Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[mrsleeve]

The county I live in is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined!!! and 94% of that area is Public Use land.

[DTM190]

Australia is almost the same size as USA but has less than 10% of the population



We only have 6 states and 2 territories.

Fanny means vagina here (why I didnt end up with an American grandfather after a US Sailor told my grandmother to "park her fanny here sweetheart" at a movie theatre in the 1930s. She slapped him and walked out lol. True story)

[ainadude]

The international distress term "mayday" comes from the French term "m'aidez," which is pronounced the same way and means "help me."

[george graves]

In GPS technology, the phrasing “COCOM Limits” is also used to refer to a limit placed to GPS tracking devices that should disable tracking when the device realizes itself to be moving faster than 1,000 knots (1,900 km/h; 1,200 mph) at an altitude higher than 60,000 feet (18,000 m). This was intended to avoid the use of GPS in intercontinental ballistic missile-like applications. Some manufacturers apply this limit literally (disable when both limits are reached), other manufacturers disable tracking when a single limit is reached.

[Dozyproductions]

There are a lot of trannies in Thailand.

[Mlarsen]

subaru oil filters fit on hondas

[eurostyl e30]

Phil Collins is obsessed with the Alamo.

[herbivor]

This month (9/2011), Neptune will have made one full circumnavigation of the Sun since it was first discovered in 1854.

[george graves]

Statistics show that, since 9/11, more people have died in car accidents cause they were afraid of flying, then all the people that died on that day.

(source is a Ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert...happiness.html )

[325_e30]

Micky Arison, the owner of the Miami Heat is also Chairman and CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines.

[hi0982000]

It takes roughly 600 horsepower to push a shape with a frontal Area of 1 foot squared 200 mph.

A top fuel dragster produces about 800-1000 pounds of down force out of the exhaust alone. There is also so much fuel in the engine it never atomizes. That's the reasoning behind dual 44 amp magnetos.

[Wh33lhop]

It takes roughly 600 horsepower to push a shape with a frontal Area of 1 foot squared 200 mph.

Not always true, depends on the Cd. Very important.

Here's a fairly well known one: Mark Wahlberg was actually a hoodlum in his youth. He went to prison in his late teens and when he got out he started rapping (ever heard of Marky Mark?).

In other news, I feel really old saying "rapping."

[Fusion]

Yea, he did a pretty good job of making the public forget is music career when he became well known as an actor.
Search youtube for Marky Mark and have a good laugh. Some of the songs are very well known and barely anyone associates them to the (now) actor.
I have a feeling he got really pissed at someone who recently called him Marky Mark.

[trackjunkie21]

The area between the twat and the shitter is called the twitter.

[Mr. Tasty]

Australia is almost the same size as USA but has less than 10% of the population



We only have 6 states and 2 territories.

Fanny means vagina here (why I didnt end up with an American grandfather after a US Sailor told my grandmother to "park her fanny here sweetheart" at a movie theatre in the 1930s. She slapped him and walked out lol. True story)

clearly you mean the continental U.S.