7680 tock

7681~Hickory, Dickory Dock

7682~the mouse ran up the clock

7683

my first post to the million thread in a while

7684

I was thinking 'why bother' <sniff> but it's admirable that we're soldiering on!

7685~Yep, we're giving it the old college try. :D

#7686

7687~There were 130 vessels in the Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by Spain's King Philip II to conquer England in 1588.

7678~Southern Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles co-exist.

7679~Cleopatra painted her lower eyelids green and her upper eyelids blue-black.

7680~Pope Clement VIII officially recognized coffee as a Christian drink in an edict issued in 1592. It had been introduced to Europe by Arab traders and was considered by many Roman Catholics to be the wine of infidels.

7681~An ancient Egyptian placed his right hand on an onion when taking an oath. Its round shape symbolized eternity.

7692... sneeking a post in from work :) through my connection to the home PC.

Looks like there was also a drop of 10 in the count back there :)

7693~Woohoo! MilkToast pops in with some good news!

7694

7695... and I gotta go back to doing work :D

7696~The first president to wear long trousers rather than knee breeches to his inauguration was our sixth president, John Quincy Adams, in 1825.

7698~If man had a jumping ability proportional to that of the minuscule flea, which can make a horizontal leap of over a foot, one leap would take him five city blocks.

7700~When you cross cattle with buffalo, you get beefalo.

7701

Good afternoon

7702~The one-ounce brown bat--the most common bat in North America--is capable of eating 500 mosquito-size insects in an hour of nighttime dining.

7703 Well good for those bats! What a help they are

7704~I'm sure they do it just for us, Scarlett. :)

7705 - done with work :) I did not realize it was this late in the day

-- 7706 --

still on target for 10k before the end of the month (7/26/03 12:38 PM)

--7707--

some strange facts from Strangefacts.com will now follow ;)

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.

--7708--

7709~Always on the lookout for strange facts. :)

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

--7710--

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.

--7711--

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.

--7712--

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

--7713--

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

--7714--

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

--7715--

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

--7716--

Porcupines float in water.

--7717--

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

(sounds like this thread!)

--7718--

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

--7719--