We all live on the Earth's rigid outer crust, which is 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 km) thick under the oceans and 20 to 44 miles (32 to 70) thick under the land. This may seem fairly thick to us, but compared to the rest of the planet, it's very thin -- like the outer skin on an apple.


"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-Carl Sagan

 

One of the most famous early stunts was one performed by Buster Keaton in which the front of a house falls on him, but the window falls around him so he is left standing unharmed. This risky stunt was accomplished simply by measuring very carefully.



"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
-Le Corbusier

 

The oldest shark fossils date from more than 300 million years ago, before the age of the dinosaurs. And a few existing shark species, such as the hornshark, have kept the same basic physical characteristics for more than 150 million years.


"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
-Viscount John Morley

 

"Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendour, woven of love, by wisdom, with power."
-Fra Giovanni Giocondo

 

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.



"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
-Russell Baker


BRING SUMMER BACK!!

 

Sorry for being soo slack lately to those who read this!!!


The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons - more than the weight of 50 adult elephants. The blue whale's blood vessels are so broad that a full-grown trout could swim through them, and the vessels serve a heart the size of a small car.


"When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing."
-William Carlos Williams

 

"Running was invented by shoe companies to sell more shoes. Just like Valentines day was created by Hallmark" - Wilch on S2ki 2007

 

Dancing is just like standing still, only faster.

 

Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs.


The oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
-Ford Madox Ford

 

Naples, Italy, is the home of the pizza. Neapolitan women first created pizza pies about 200 years ago.

I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
-Groucho Marx