FOR FUN
FUN FACTS
• Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn
• 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie
• 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
• 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun
• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
• In Iowa it’s illegal for a horse to eat a fire hydrant
• Mosquitoes have teeth.
• The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.
• The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular
• A blue whale’s heart is the size of a Mini Cooper and a person could crawl through its major arteries.
• There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would encircle the earth 2.5 times. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
• Frogs vomit out their stomachs and it dangles from their mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to clean out the contents of its stomach.
• There are more television sets in the United States than there are people in Japan.
• Pandas spend about 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why…
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air-crashes.
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20
http://www.tealdragon.net/humor/facts/facts.htm
http://www.totallyuselessknowledge.com/natural.php
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/blue-whale-interactive/
http://listverse.com
http://www.freewebs.com/thesilentteen/randomfacts.htm
http://www.begent.org/funfact.htm
-Josephina Zoulias
Top 10 biggest criminal mistakes
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for a countdown that will make you die of laughter. These are the stories of 10 criminals that got caught due to pure stupidity. So, get ready.
10. In the year of 2003 at Poland. Author, Krystian Bala wrote a book about a similar murder he committed three years ago. His novel allowed the police to trace the crime back to him.
9. In Wisconsin, USA in the year of 2009. After grabbing a young employee, Joey Geraci attempted to rob a restaurant. He was foiled after a chef attacked him... with a spoon
8. In the American state Colorado, in the year 2011, a woman woke up to see Juan Gonzales Jr standing over her bed. He grabbed her phone, fled... and then added her on Facebook.
7. In the year 1988, in the American state Detroit, R.C. Gaitlan asked local cops how their felon-finding technology worked. He freely handed over his ID, forgetting he was wanted for armed robbery.
6. In Ontario, Canada, in 2008 Daniel Glen called a convenience store ahead of a robbery to check how much cash was in the register. The cops were waiting when he arrived.
5. A woman called Eloise D. Reaves discovered that cocaine hydrochloride (also known as crack) was illegal in 2006, after she complained because of the poor quality of the crack to the police.
4. The largest bill in the US circulation is $100, but that didn’t stop Michael Fuller, a citizen from North Carolina trying to use a $1 million note in Wal-Mart. He never got his change.
3. In 2007, in the United Kingdom, a man called Peter Addison, while robbing a children’s campsite, the thief vandalised the walls with the words “Peter Addison was here”.
2. In the year 1989 at California, USA, two unidentified car thieves made a run for it after being busted by the police. They scaled a fence, and landed in San Quentin Prison.
1. Here we go, the most unintelligent and ridiculous criminal to walk the earth. In 2002 an unidentified Iranian paid a ‘wizard’ $450 for the power of invisibly. He then tried to rob a bank by calmly grabbing money off customers.
Acknowledgments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTRjH4jFxg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Dumbest_Criminals -Michael Samuel
PROCRASTINATION
pro•cras•ti•na•tion
[proh-kras-tuh-ney-shuhn, pruh‐] Show IPA
noun
the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying,especially something requiring immediate attention: She was smart, but her
constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.
STORY OF EVERY STUDENT’S LIFE. This…THING…has ruined us. THIS, combined with a lazy Monday afternoon at home…and Wi-Fi, is lethal. It can quite literally mess up your whole homework schedule. Teachers say “write it in your homework diary so you can remember and program yourselves”
“…………………………………………………………………………………………………………”
That seriously isn’t the case. So you write everything down and feel like a good, organized student and you go home full of the most honourable intentions of getting ALL your homework done and out of the way so you won’t have an aneurism during the week trying to get ridiculous amounts of homework finished and then maybe, just maybe…AFTER you’re done of course, going on face book for a while. He hehe he.
NOT.
After this point the evening splits up into one of these three situations:
1) You DO get all your homework done and feel so proud of yourself when your FREELY browsing the net because “heyyyyy what about the English questions? “ DONE THEM HAAA”
2) The majority of your assignments involve the computer so you do some very creative multitasking (being able to perform more than two tasks at once…WELL it is a good thing right?) which usually involves you listening to music on YouTube, chatting with your friends and writing paragraphs on a word document. That awkward moment you write abbreviations on chat and then you’re re –reading your nice formal answers and you see things like “u” or “rlly” and you’re just like:
3) You go to your room….and EVERYTHING is there…your laptop… and for all Potter heads out there a huge distraction is all the Harry Potter books. So the excuses start coming to you “Oh come on! IT’S ONLY 4:00…..5:00…6:00…. I STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME… YEAH IF I DO THE PHYSICS THEN…AND THE HISTORY THEN…THAT STILL GIVES ME A BIT OF TIME FOR SPANISH TOO…IM STILL GOOD… 8:00…oh…well now I’m done for…whoops…
A couple of days later when you ARE having an aneurism getting everything done…
“SO MUM HAHAHA FUNNY STORY…I’M GOING TO SLEEP SOMEWHERE AROUND THE CRACK OF DAWN TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE AN ESSAY, 2O MATH QUESTIONS, MEMORIZATION FOR PSYCHOLOGY , A PHYSICS WRITE UP AND CHEMISTRY QUESTIONS…just thought that…you should know?”
“No…ok…heyyyy would you look at that…Spanish sheet too…”
*insert lecture time* (which if you think about it is really pointless because the only thing it’s doing is wasting precious time!)
So take it as a piece of personal advice, in order to avoid lectures from your parents (and teachers!) AVOID PROCRASTINATION AND GET YOUR WORK DONE.
Maggie.K. 10C