Feb. 3, 2009 - valentine funfacts

Here is the most enjoyable and unbelievable collection of Valentine's Day Fun Facts. Share these fun facts with your friends to amaze them this Valentine Day.

• About 1 billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged in US each year. That's the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas.
• Women purchase 85% of all valentines.
• In order of popularity, Valentine's Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.
• Parents receive 1 out of every 5 valentines.
• About 3% of pet owners will give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.
• Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are the biggest holidays for giving flowers.
• Worldwide, over 50 million roses are given for Valentine's Day each year.
• California produces 60 percent of American roses, but the vast number sold on Valentine's Day in the United States are imported, mostly from South America. Approximately 110 million roses, the majority red, will be sold and delivered within a three-day time period.
• 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27 percent are women.
• Men buy most of the millions of boxes of candy and bouquets of flowers given on Valentine's Day.
• In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
• The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
• Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentines Day candy box in the late 1800s.
• Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, an "Improvement in Telegraphy", on Valentine's Day, 1876.
• The oldest surviving love poem till date is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing, around 3500 B.C
• Amongst the earliest Valentine's Day gifts were candies. The most common were chocolates in heart shaped boxes.
• In some countries, a young woman may receive a gift of clothing from a prospective suitor. If the gift is kept, then it means she has accepted his proposal of marriage
• If an individual thinks of five or six names considered to be suitable marriage partners and twists the stem of an apple while the names are being recited, then it is believed the eventual spouse will be the one whose name was recited at the moment the stem broke.
• In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St Valentine's Day to make them dream of their future husband.

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Jun. 12, 2008 - Tie Dyeing

Get psychedelic with a crafting classic - tie dyeing. The colorful 'sunburst' patterns kids can create are never out of style. This simplified version doesn't even require a washing machine!

What you'll need:

How to make it:

1. Take article of clothing, gather up a bundle and wrap around the rubber band tightly.
2. Do this in numerous spots all over the article so that circles will turn up everywhere you want.
3. Boil some water in a large pot and when boiling tip dye in (sometimes you don't even need to use the whole pot of dye). Add article and stir for around 30 minutes on high.
4. When finished, take out with tongs and run under cold water to make sure all extra dye runs out.
5. Dry, then take off lackey bands (rubber bands), iron and your piece is ready to use.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Kool-Aid Playdough

  3 cups flour
  1/2 cup salt
2 kool-aid packages
2 cups boiling water
1. mix dry ingredients together.
2. add boiling water.
3. knead on floured board.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Magazine House

   Using an old catalog or magazine, cut out pictures of chairs, tables, curtains, and bathroom fixtures and other furnishings. Spread out a newspaper or a large sheet of drawing paper. Sketch an " open sided" house. Have children place the pictures of the furnishings in the rooms of their choice. They can cut out more pictures to redecorate their house, cut out pictures of people, toys, pets, anything they like!

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Apr. 22, 2008 - All Because Of Hollywood

What if we had to learn everything we know from TV and movies? If that were the case we'd automatically assume the following is true:
- All phone numbers in America begin with 555.
- All grocery shopping bags have at least one stick of French bread in them.
- Anyone waking from a nightmare will bolt upright in bed and pant.
- The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
- All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when  they're going to explode.
- Any lock can be picked with a credit card or paper clip in  seconds ... unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
- Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Gooey Gupp

     A man named James Wright was trying to make something to replace rubber, but what he invented wasn't strong like rubber, even though it stretched and bounced. It wasn't perfect, but Gooey Gupp was fun. If  Gupp was pressed onto a newspaper, it copied the words and pictures. Nobody bought Gooey Gupp when it was first sold in toy stores. But then Peter Hodson found Gooey Gupp while shopping one day. He liked it so much, that he bought the company. Then he changed the name and the package. He made the package look like a TV screen, with a girl and a boy looking at a red egg inside the TV. And what was the red egg? Its new name was Silly Putty. Lots of kids have played with it, and grown-ups have even used Silly Putty for some unexpected jobs. When the astronauts of Apollo 8 needed a way to keep their tools floating around, a gob of Silly Putty stuck the tools back where they belonged.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Insructions

   Have you ever wondered who writes the instructions that come with the appliances we buy? They must think without those instructions, we'd have no idea what to do with the appliance we just purchased. The following are actual printed instructions:
- On a hair dryer: Do not use while sleeping.(Those 1,500 watts can really lull you to sleep, you know!)
- On a bag of Fritos: You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.(So .... are they encouraging us to steal the chips?)
- On a bar of Dial soap: Use like regular soap.(Do they think we'll try to dial it?)
- On a frozen dinner: Serving suggestion- defrost.(Do you even own utensils that can cut through a side of frozen beef?)
- On a Korean kitchen knife: Warning- keep out of children.(Say "ahhh.")
- On an American Airlines packet of nuts: Open packet, eat nuts.(So if you didn't have those instructions, you'd sit politely, holding the packet in your lap just wondering and wondering what in the world to do with them??)

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Weird but true

- Oysters change from male to female.
- A comet is a gigantic ball of dirt and ice.
- Aspace suit costs about ten million dollars.
- Every continent has a city called Rome (except Antartica).
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- At least 12 rocks from Mars have landed on Earth.
- A tiger's skin is striped like its fur.
- Pigs can get sunburned.
- New York drifts about an inch farther from London every year.
- 1,000,000,000,000
 Ants live on Earth.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - The Power of Water

We know that water is important . . . . after all , most of the world is made up of water. But here are some amazing facts about water that you might Not Know!
_Research tells us that drinking Eight to ten glasses of water a day can significantly reduce pain for almost 80 percent of the people who suffer from back and joint pain.
- Seventy-five percent of all Americans are chronically dehydrated.
_ In 37 percent of americans the thirst mechanism is so weak that it's often mistaken for hunger.
_Drinking just five glasses of water DAILY DECREASES THE RISK OF COLON canCER BY 45 PERCENT, PLUS IT CAN SLASH THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER BY 79 PERCENT.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Paying attention?

Ready For a fun brain teaser? Okay here it goes! Read the following statement:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now count the Fs in the above statement. Count only once!
Guess what-there are six Fs in that statement. Many people only count three; some will find four or five thier second time around. But there are actually six.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Who Froze The First Popsicle?

Can you imagine inventing something,without even knowing it? That's exactly what happened to 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. he decided to fix himself a drink by stirring soda water and flavored water together with a mixing stick. Frank left his glass out on the back porch, completely forgetting that it was there that night, the temperature got unexpectedly cold. When Frank found his glass outside the next morning, he saw that the drink had frozen with the stick still in it. Fank named this new creation after himself: the ''epsicle". We know Frank's invention by another name,a combination of lollipop and epsicle.Have you guessed it? It's the Popsicle.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Who Would Of Guessed That...

-you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching t.v.
-oak trees don't produce acorns until they're 50 years or older.
-the first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
-Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
- all U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Many just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- the plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- pearls dissolve in vinegar.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Why is a Bunch of Lions Called a Pride?

    Long ago in England, the rich people didn't have much to do. To keep themselves entertained, they invented a game to play while they were sitting around. They decided to make up special names for groups of animals. It was boring to say '' a group of lions,'' or ''a group of seals,'' so they chose fancier words. They decided that a group of lions would be called a pride, and seals in a group would be called a pod. Some of the other names they made up were: a parliament of owls, a rafter of turkeys, a kindle of kittens, a hover  of trout , and an exaltation of larks. All of these names were printed in books, because people wanted to know how to speak and act like the rich people who made up the names. Soon many people began using the game names, and that is why we still say a gaggle of geese and a covey of quails today.

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Apr. 22, 2008 - Who Would Of Guessed That...

-It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
-Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have her head depicted on a Pez dispenser.
-The average life span of a major league baseball is seven pitches                                                                    -A duck's quack doesn't echo.

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Apr. 10, 2008 - Fact: The Color Blue

 

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Mar. 24, 2008 - I want to hear from you!

if anyone has any great facts or jokes they'd like to share email them to me to see them on this blog. i love sketches, doodles, or poems as well!

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Mar. 24, 2008 - Photo Finger Puppets

 

Stage a pet puppet show starring friends and family with the help of this personalized puppet menagerie. Here's how to get started:

CRAFT MATERIALS:
	2-inch styrofoam ball
	Acrylic paint
	Craft foam
	Scissors
	Glue
Time needed: About 1 Hour

1. Use a pen to poke a hole in the bottom of a 2-inch Styrofoam ball; rotate it to create a space large enough for a finger.

2. Paint the ball with acrylic paint and let it dry.

3. Cut out the head of your animal of choice from craft foam. From a photograph, cut out the face of a friend or family member. Glue the photo to the front of the head.

4. 4 On the top of the ball, use a butter knife to create a slot deep enough for the edge of the head to sit in. Squeeze a little glue on the back bottom edge of the head and place it in the slot

5. Attach beads to 3-inch lengths of pipe cleaner to make arms and legs. Twist an additional pipe cleaner into a tail shape. Poke all of them in place in the ball and let the show begin!

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Mar. 15, 2008 - Facts about Easter

• The name Easter comes from Eostre, an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess, originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honour.
• Easter is now celebrated (in the words of the Book of Common Prayer) on the first Sunday after the full moon which happens on or after March 21, the Spring Equinox. Therefore it can occur on any Sunday from March 22nd through to April 25th. This year it’s on Sunday 16 th April.
• In medieval times a festival of egg throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choirboys. It was then tossed from one choirboy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.
• Easter Bonnets are a throw back to the days when the people denied themselves the pleasure of wearing finery for the duration of Lent. By tradition, it was obligatory (or at least lucky) for churchgoers to wear some bright new piece of clothing - at least an Easter bonnet, if not a complete new outfit.
• The traditional act of painting eggs is called Pysanka.
• The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.
• The most famous decorated Easter eggs were those made by the well-known goldsmith, Peter Carl Faberge. In 1883 the Russian Czar, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie. The first Faberge egg was an egg within an egg. It had an outside shell of platinum and enameled white which opened to reveal a smaller gold egg. The smaller egg, in turn, opened to display a golden chicken and a jeweled replica of the Imperial crown. This special Faberge egg so delighted the Czarina that the Czar promptly ordered the Faberge firm to design further eggs to be delivered every Easter. In later years Nicholas II, Alexander's son, continued the custom. Fifty-seven eggs were made in all.
• In 1878 President Hayes and his wife Lucy officially opened the White House grounds to the children of the area for egg rolling on Easter Monday. The event has been held on the South Lawn ever since, except during World War I and World War II. During the war years the Easter Egg Roll was held at the National Zoo, and other Washington locations.
• The Guinness Book of Records holder for the largest Easter egg ever made is the Belgian chocolate producer Guylian who made the chocolate egg with at least 50.000 bars on behalf of the city of St. Niklaas. The egg measured 8.32 metres high . Twenty-six craftsman worked altogether 525 hours to build the egg. They needed 1950 kg of chocolates.

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Feb. 26, 2008 - Facts about water

The human brain in two thirds water

Trees are two thirds water

The water that is on the Earth now is made up of the same minerals and elements that made up the water that was on the planet while the dinosaurs were wandering around.

A person can live without food for a few weeks but a person can only live without water for a few days.

The average US citizen uses between eighty and one hundred gallons of water each day.

The people in ancient Egypt treated their water by siphoning it out of the tops of jars in which they collected the water from the Nile River. They would allow the mud from the Nile to settle in the bottom of the jars and then take the water from the top.

The father of medicine, Hippocrates, told people to boil their water and strain it before drinking it.

Filtering water in the late 1800s kept the people of Altona Germany from dying of cholera-the people in Hamburg (who did not filter their water) were not so lucky.

Water is the only substance on earth that transcends all three states of physical matter-gas, liquid and solid.

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Feb. 18, 2008 - Pizza Perfect

• Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second.
• Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices (23 pounds) of pizza a year.
• Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping (36 percent of all pizza orders we eat approximately 251,770,000 pounds a year!
• In America, anchovies always rank last on the list of favorite toppings.
• In 1830 pizza truly began with the opening of the world’s first pizzeria. Port’ Alba, the pizzas were cooked in an oven lined with lava from Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located on the Bay of Naples.
• Pizza makers have tried virtually every type of food on pizzas, including peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs and mashed potatoes!
• According to Domino’s, some of the more popular international toppings are pickled ginger, minced mutton and tofu in India, squid (octopus) and Mayou Jaga (mayonnaise, potato and bacon) in Japan, and green peas in Brazil. In Russia, they serve pizza covered with mockba, which is a combination of sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon and onions. In France, a popular combo is called the Flambee, with bacon, onion and fresh cream.
• There are approximately 61,269 pizzerias in the United States.
• Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year.

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