Fact O' The Day

[Hefe]

interesting...

[Peelz]

hefe---not fair. funny as all hell, but not fair

[Hefe]

lmao...
I hope you never are granted powers!

[Krandall]

holy crap!!!!!!!!!


'The U.S. Library of Congress' collection occupies 650 miles of bookshelves. '


The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. doesn't just have over 33 million books; it also has 12 million photographs, millions of maps, sheet music, and other manuscripts. Its holdings make it largest library in the world; and having been founded in 1800, it is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country.

[Krandall]

Contrary to popular belief, Julius Caesar was not born by cesarean section. '


According to the Roman historian Pliny, the Caesar family took its name from the word "to cut" (cadere), which does reference an ancestor believed to have been delivered by cesarean section, but there's no evidence Julius himself was delivered that way. Women had been giving birth by the method since before the time of Caesar himself, though the mother inevitably died during the procedure. Not until the 16th century is there a recorded cesarean birth in which the mother survived.

[dragonz]

Guess women were a disposable comodity back then

[Hefe]

back then....?

[Krandall]

'Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter has never been out of print. '


Published in the early spring of 1850, the story of the adulteress Hester Prynne was set amid the Puritanism of 17th-century Boston. The book's initial print run of 2,500 copies may seem small but was in fact reasonable for its time, and sold out in less than two weeks. It has remained in print ever since, and is considered one of the cornerstones of American literature.

[Hefe]

The top of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain (over 26,000 ft.) is made up of "limestone" from the bottom of the ocean floor. This limestone contains fossils from ancient life.

[Spartan]

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body...

[Lady4Fiddy]

The human head weighs eight pounds!

[Krandall]

'Nineteen U.S. military personnel are double recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. '


The United States Military has handed out almost 3,500 Congressional Medals of Honor dating back to the Civil War, with the huge majority (over 2,400) given to regular Army personnel and only one to a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. In the history of the Medal, 19 individuals have received the honor twice: 7 were Marines, 5 were Army, and 9 were from the Navy.

[Spartan]

The Navy

[Peelz]

The Navy

what is wrong with the navy?

[Krandall]

The Navy

what is wrong with the navy?

+1..

I thought you liked seaman patters....?