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Did You Know? - March 2010

March 1, 2010 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

In Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

Poison oak and poison ivy are both members of the cashew family.
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Did You Know? - February 2010

February 1, 2010 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

A person who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day inhales a half-cup of tar a year?

Harvard University was first known as Cambridge?
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Did You Know? January 2010

January 1, 2010 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

O’Reily’s Law Of The Kitchen:  Cleanliness is next to impossible.

Leiberman’s Law:  Everybody lies; but it doesn’t matter, since nobody listens.

Denniston’s LAW:  vIRTUE IS ITS OWN PUNISHMENT.
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Did You Know? - December 2009

December 1, 2009 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

Falls City, Oregon, once sold potholes as Christmas presents “For people who have everything”, for $20. The recipient’s name was embossed on it?
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Did You Know? September 2009

September 1, 2009 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

  • A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana?
  • A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100 watt bulb?
  • A snail can have about 25,000 teeth? Read more

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    Did You Know - August 2009

    August 1, 2009 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

    The Duck-billed Platypus is the only furred creature that is venomous?
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    Did You Know? - June 2009

    June 1, 2009 by Valley Bugler · Leave a Comment 

    Women are not allowed to play Santa Claus in Minnesota?

    President John Quincy Adaams kept an alligator in the east room 0f the White house?
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    Did You Know - April 2009

    April 1, 2009 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

    The speed of thought is 150 miles per hour?

    The word “run” has 832 meanings?
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    Did You Know? March 2009

    March 1, 2009 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

    A village in Ireland known as “Dun Bleisce” recently won the right to change the name to it’s original name of “Fort of the Harlot.” ?
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    Did You Know? December 2008

    December 1, 2008 by Jim Helton · Leave a Comment 

    CHRISTMAS VERSION:

    Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of childen, thieves, and pawnbrokers? Read more

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