Okay. You have had your fill of watching the Detroit Lions getting their behinds kicked by the Carolina Panthers. You’re tired of waiting for Uncle Harry and Aunt Betty to arrive. The turkey is in the oven along with the sweet potato and green bean casseroles. There is homemade pumpkin pie waiting to go into the oven as soon as the turkey comes out and you’re absolutely starved. You didn’t eat all day because you wanted to make sure you had plenty of room for the annual “stuff-your-face” feast.
It is cold outside, so walking around until Thanksgiving dinner won’t work either. How are you going to endure the wait?
Why not try these fun facts TheBAYNET.com found at http://www.funny2.com/facts.htm to help alleviate the boredom and have some fun with your family and friends?
Did you know … ?
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is widely known as the busiest party day of the year.
Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.
John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (“Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer.
One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy