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Post by Paul Hogan on Nov 22, 2007 16:17:02 GMT -5
Denver has the nation's largest city park system, with more than 200 parks within city limits and 20,000 acres of parks in the nearby mountains ? an area larger than all of Manhattan Island.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Nov 29, 2007 4:52:31 GMT -5
A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Nov 29, 2007 5:20:23 GMT -5
Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars ? and it is estimated by astronomers that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Nov 30, 2007 17:34:34 GMT -5
Some so rich in flowers that Australians call them ?golden rain,? Australia?s national emblem is the wattle (Acacia). The plant appears in all the states and on the coat of arms. Its 600 species range from small shrubs to large trees. Settlers named the trees after seeing Aborigines interweave ? or wattle ? the branches into crude shelters.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 3, 2007 17:20:55 GMT -5
It takes the human eyes an hour to adapt completely to seeing in the dark. Once adapted, however, the eyes are about 100,000 times more sensitive to light than they are in bright sunlight.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 4, 2007 17:57:29 GMT -5
The first chocolate chip cookie was developed in the kitchen of a Whitman, Massachusetts, country inn in 1937. Simple experiments led to a recipe combining bits of chocolate candy with a shortbread type cookie dough.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 6, 2007 21:37:08 GMT -5
Scientists say that people who sleep less than average (less than 6 hours a night) are more organized and efficient than everybody else.
Thats what they think
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 7, 2007 17:02:38 GMT -5
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 10, 2007 17:23:13 GMT -5
The worst storm to hit southern England occurred on the night of November 26, 1703. The English writer Daniel Defoe described the storm in his diary. About 8,000 people died, mainly at sea.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 11, 2007 17:26:16 GMT -5
More than one million Earths would fit inside the sun.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 13, 2007 0:27:03 GMT -5
The oldest known map is carved on a clay tablet that dates to about 2300 B.C., which now resides in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Excavated at Nuzi in northern Iraq during the early 1920s, the clay map portrays the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 14, 2007 0:01:15 GMT -5
Residents of Hawaii outlive residents of all other states, while Louisianans are the most prone in the U.S. to die an early death.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 18, 2007 18:51:54 GMT -5
When viewed from above, rainbows are doughnut-shaped.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 18, 2007 19:59:12 GMT -5
The sci-fi flick Gog (1954), in which a nuclear "brain" takes over a secret laboratory, was the first film to have a computer appear as a main character in a movie.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Dec 20, 2007 1:24:36 GMT -5
Yuma, Arizona has the most sun of any locale in the U.S. - it averages sunny skies 332 days a year.
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