The average American passes 28 pounds of undigested corn throughout their lifetime. Anybody have the figure on peanuts?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by aznpooky
[B]all of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are always on 4:20

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ltweintz
[B]

Sorry to burst your bubble.....I watched the movie one time just to see if it was true.

 

- A dragonfly has a lifespan of only 24 hours
- There are 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
- Q is the only letter that does not appear in an of the names of the United States
- A sneeze travels at 100mph
- Lightning strikes over 6000 times a minute on the planet
- A giraffe can clean its ears with it's 21 inch tongue!
- The Sun is 330,000 times larger then the Earth

 

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennesse.

Franklin Titans......I don't think so.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by aznpooky
[B]

damnation, are you serious??

 

Actually, I think if you count the larvae stages of the dragonfly, then the we are talking about years rather than hours....

 

Wow, this is amazing. When I first saw this line of posts, I thought it was just another load of horsehockey (which is the whole point of the thread, yes I know). But then I checked a dictionary and discovered it to be true! In all my engineering coursework and experience, I have never heard about the Brits using a different system. From a 1986 copy of Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary I discovered that the "British system" names its numbers in intervals of a million. E.g. a billion is a million million (10^12), a trillion is a million billion (10^18) and so forth. In contrast, the US system is grouped by thousands...a billion is a thousand million (10^9), and a trillion is a thousand billion (10^12).

Is this (IMO) silly British system still being used in Europe?? If so, what the heck do you call a US quadrillion (10^15)..."one thousand billion?" Sheesh...and all I thought we had to do to drag you Brits into this century was get you to drive on the right side of the road and teach you to say "aluminum" correctly.

 

Tedow... buddy... what is silly about the UK system?
Let's not be ethnocentristic.... the system has more logic than the "US" system (which is not US at all... it's French)

UK system:
Define Million=10^6
Billion = Million^2 (hence "bi")
Trillion = Million^3 (hence "tri")
Quadrillion = Million^4 (hence "quad")

What is "bi"illion about 10^9? Zippo. The best you can do is say it's the number of thousands beyond a million which is neither a thous based sytem nor a million based system.

Now back to the thread...

Pencils were discovered when ornamental objects designed to be worn behind the ear were discovered to be good writing devices.
Some people still use pencils for their original purpose.

 

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

Duffer