Fact of the Day:
An ear of corn has approximately 800 kernels.

Quote of the Day:
"Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense."
- Jerry Seinfeld, "Seinfeld"

 

Fact of the Day:
Glaciers covered 32 percent of Earth's total land area during the last Ice Age; now they cover 10 percent.

Quote of the Day:
"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."
- George Herbert

 

Fact of the Day:
The smallest telescopes available today are more powerful than the one Galileo used to discover the wonders of the solar system.

Quote of the Day:
"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."
- Peter Handke

 

Quote of the Day:
"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

 

Fact of the Day:
By high school graduation, the average child in the United States will have eaten 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Quote of the Day:
"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom."
- Herman Hesse

 

Fact of the Day:
The black mamba is the world

 

It's the weekend - they're all out driving

The other factor is that I think a lot of the newer members don't have computers at home and only post 9-5 Mon-Fri

 

Fact of the Day:
There are more than 6,000 bank robberies in the United States every year.

Quote of the Day:
"Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe."
- John Milton

 

Man who cream tart not always baker. anon.

 

Fact of the Day:
Greyhounds are the oldest known purebred dogs.

Quote of the Day:
"A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head."
- Karl Kraus