Did you know ?...

[3Turner]

ISO 3200, bulb setting, dark room.... Hmmmm.... I could do this.
That is what I was thinking.....and maybe open several so that you are sure to get the light bright as possible....then hand out the open ones to everyone in your family to sleep comfortably without snoring tonight:D.

[BillsBayou]

Reuters News

Father of Three Assaults Family In Their Sleep

New Orleans, Louisiana: In this post-Katrina stress-filled city, domestic violence has reached an all-time high. But for one family of five, it has reached an all time low as one man has reached the breaking point. Police were called to the residence of one Bill S. Bayou for what neighbors called an "unusual quiet."...

[3Turner]

Reuters News

Father of Three Assaults Family In Their Sleep

New Orleans, Louisiana: In this post-Katrina stress-filled city, domestic violence has reached an all-time high. But for one family of five, it has reached an all time low as one man has reached the breaking point. Police were called to the residence of one Bill S. Bayou for what neighbors called an "unusual quiet."...
:shock:

[BillsBayou]

...Police arrived on the scene to find the entire family unconscious. Each had been fitted with a BreatheRight strip. Investigators on the scene followed the trail of luminescent wrappers to Mr. Bayou's bed. "He was just lying there with a big smile on his face," said Detective Trip Turner, "I don't think he understands the impact of his actions." Upon resuscitating the unconscious man's family, each awoke with a start and began clawing at the strips on their noses. Turner says "In 15 years, I've never heard of anyone doing this to their wife and children. He apparently did this to them without their permission or knowledge."...

[the_incubus]

you violated their nasal passages?

[BillsBayou]

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[the_incubus]

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[BillsBayou]

Why do gorillas have big nostrils?







They have big fingers.

[Citizensmith]

DYK, barracudas have a second jaw at the start of their throat that can reach forward into their mouth to pull food backwards. Just like in aliens. How cool is that.

Don't think they have the acid blood though, although that wasn't mentioned so who knows, maybe.

[gjl711]

Why do gorillas have big nostrils?
...They have big fingers.
Which came first big fingers or big nostrils?

[BillsBayou]

In my experience, the fingers.

[3Turner]

...Police arrived on the scene to find the entire family unconscious. Each had been fitted with a BreatheRight strip. Investigators on the scene followed the trail of luminescent wrappers to Mr. Bayou's bed. "He was just lying there with a big smile on his face," said Detective Trip Turner, "I don't think he understands the impact of his actions." Upon resuscitating the unconscious man's family, each awoke with a start and began clawing at the strips on their noses. Turner says "In 15 years, I've never heard of anyone doing this to their wife and children. He apparently did this to them without their permission or knowledge."...

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[g2kev]

DYK the rounded raised markers that divide lanes on California highways are called Botts Dots. Their inventor, Elbert Botts worked as a chemist for Caltrans in the 50's and early 60's.

[BillsBayou]

I did know that. They never got the glue right until after he died.

[KirkHMB]

DYK, barracudas have a second jaw at the start of their throat that can reach forward into their mouth to pull food backwards. .

Is this barracudas, or moray eels, or both? I just saw this in the paper this weekend as well. Not sure why it took so long, just dissect one. Said they used high speed video to capture it

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/08/BA8US0GIR.DTL&hw=moray&sn=001&sc=1000

[Citizensmith]

Apparently they knew about the second jaw thing, they just didn't know it could reach forward and spit acid blood.

Oh no, wait, acid blood was the aliens again. And you are right about it being moray eels, guess I got too excited about something that cool and remembered the article a little wrong.

[gjl711]

Is this barracudas, or moray eels, or both? ...
One of the scariest experiences in my life happened in the Bahamas. I was diving just off Pelican Island, which was nothing more than a patch of sand with a few palm trees on it. I dropped off the back of the boat into maybe 30~40 feet of water right in the middle of a school of barracuda, hundreds, as far as I could see. Well, the all turned to take a peak that the fresh piece of bait that dropped on and i swear, they were all licking their chops. I don’t know about the double jaw thing, as i pretty much levitated back into the boat, but they all looked as if one jaw would do the job just fine. :)

[tkoutdoor]

I am really trying hard not to correct all the incorrect facts in this thread so instead will post.

Did you know that 99% of all scientists who have ever lived are alive today?
Lol, and I think the veggie scientist's have found a captive audience! Sounds like a non-FDA approved infomercial. Ohh, I thought you said, "Did you know that 99% of all scientists who have ever lived "are here" today?" I thought you were makin a funny. :rolleyes:

[tkoutdoor]

Well, I know everything. ;)LMFAO someone had to say it!

[tkoutdoor]

DYK

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

(I am seriously dying for a pic of the "It's a Fact" girl from Kids in the Hall)
Hot girl cheats! She has a DYK book hidden somewhere!

[tkoutdoor]

Not directed at you in particular, but people need to understand that there's a difference between facts that these companies and the textbooks tell you, and all the facts. Too many companies, obviously, leave out what isn't ideal for their reputation. It isn't that it's not the truth...it's just that it's not the whole truth.

People also need to understand that most doctors and drug companies are in no way interested in keeping you healthy. Their interests depend on you staying sick. It's just good business.DYK every tyrannical dictator has his own set of facts? Not all facts equal truths. Trust in reliable sources.

[tkoutdoor]

DYK that i drink my own pee?DYK I looked for the word "banned" by your name just now? :)

[hard12find]

DYK that the fly only hums in the middle octave key f F, because he doesn't know the words....

[tkoutdoor]

THANK GOD, Someone has finally realised this and i finally dont look like an idiot when i tell my friends!
Erm... 2 idiots now! ROFL

[tkoutdoor]

Pandas really need to evolve or something. An animal with that narrow and poor of a diet really has it coming. Would it kill them to try a burger?It would if it were a Panda burger.

[tkoutdoor]

Ok, hold on to your shorts. Here is my BIGGEST DID YOU KNOW. As far as I know this information exists NO WHERE ELSE on the entire Internet. So when you hear about it ANYWHERE else from this point forward; when you repeat this story to your children and grandchildren; you can say "BillsBayou discovered the wierdest most useless bit of info on the PLANET."

Now that I have your attention...

Opening a BreathRight strip's individually wrapped envelope will cause the glue to GLOW BLUE! This also works for the individually wrapped envelopes containing BandAid bandages. The light is faint and can only be viewed in very dark rooms.

I discovered this while opening an individually wrapped BreathRight strip IN THE DARK. This is the sort of product you'd open in the dark. I opened the individually wrapped product by quickly pulling on the two halves of the paper envelope. As the two halves separate, the glue gives off a faint blue light. The light can be seen at the seam where the papers are separating. The harder you pull, the brighter the light.

You read it here first. You will NOT forget this day.Sounds like static electricity from opening the wrap, don't try that in a methane producing environment... "Hold on to your shorts" indeed!

[LBaldwin]

DYK that i made breathright strips for singing flys? Works great the pitch is the same but the look like little blue nite lights..... so you get music and a light show.
Then the litlle buggers landed in my glass of moo juice.

Les

[tkoutdoor]

Did you know... that rednecks produce more greenhouse gases per mile than their automobiles? (tkoutdoor hides his neck)

[tkoutdoor]

DYK that i made breathright strips for singing flys? Works great the pitch is the same but the look like little blue nite lights..... so you get music and a light show.
Then the litlle buggers landed in my glass of moo juice and drank all the chocolate from the glass leaving only the poisonous puslike residue....

LesSomewhere I saw a video of someone who had a fly on a leash made of a strand of human hair. It would fly around and everything... Couldn't figure out which I wanted to find first... a woman with long hair, or a fly. (Maybe that was on "Malcom in the middle")

[BigBlueDodge]

Did you know......


* By age ten, the average American kid has worn down over 750 crayons!

* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendants.

* There are 4.3 births and 1.7 deaths per second in the world.

* A starfish is the only fish/animal life form that has it's stomach on the outside.

* The drink Coca-Cola originally contained the drug cocaine in it.

* 1/4 of La is taken up of automobiles.

* Pheumononoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest english word. There are 47 letters.

* The ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds.

* Ancient Eygptians shaved their eyebrows off to mourn the deaths of their cats

* Coca-Cola was originaly green

* Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time!

* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Ficton" are stuck on 4:20.

* There are 253 ways to make change for a dollar.

* Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly it's State flag the same height as the US flag.

* The odds of finding a pearl I an oyster are 1 in 12,000

* You will use about 68,250 gallons of water brushing your teeth during your lifetime.

* At-90 degrees F, your breath freezes and falls to the floor.

* Some bacteria can produce 16,000,000 offspring in 8 hours.

* It would take about 3,085,209,600,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Sahara desert.
* 2 out of 5 people live in China or India.

* Right now, about 61,000 people are flying over the USA

* You will laugh about 5,479 times this year.

* An ounce of platinum can be stretched up to 10,000 feet.

* The worst hiccups lasted 25,355 days.

* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

* The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

* There are more chickens than people in the world.

* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

* Almonds are a member of the peach family.

* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

* Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

* The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

* Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

* The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

* If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to the top and sinking to the bottom.

* Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

* Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his strange characters.

* Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.

* It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'.

* The word "thousand" is the first number word with an "A" in it. All the words for 1 through 999 don't have any "A's" in them.

* There are 116 ridges on a quarter. There are 115 ridges on a dime.
* A golf ball usually has how 336 dimples.

* The space shuttle, discovery, travels at speeds up to 17,00 MPH, over 300 times the speed limit.

* 500,000,000 years ago, antarcitca was on the equator.

* 224,000 copies of Moby Dick weigh as much as the largest animal on earth, the blue whale.

* A snail's pace is 0.00625 miles per hour.

* The average smell weighs 750 nanograms.

* The world's longest mustache was 284.48 centimeters long.

* Impluses can travel through your nervous system at 1,177,440 feet per hour.

* Your lungs have a surface area of up to 144,000 square inches.

* The odds that the world will be destroyed by a metorite in the next 50 years is 1 in 1,200,000.

* The average person weighs as much as 1,440,000 postage stamps.

* An average of three people a year die from vending machines falling on them in the hopes to get a free drink.

* Tweety bird was originally colored pink. He was changed to yellow because Warner Bros. didn't want to have people thinking he was a "naked" bird.

* 20 vegetarians can be fed on the land needed to feed 1 person eating a meat based diet.

* A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

* Wild turkeys can run at speeds of at least 12 miles an hour, and fly at speeds up to 55 miles per hour.

* Baseball player Jackie Mitchell was the first female to pitch in organized baseball. She played for the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931. During an exhibition game she pitched to and struck outboth Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

* The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password".

* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

* The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

* On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

* On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

* Ships can travel faster in cold water than in water that is warm.

* Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles in 1894.

* When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels at over 3000 miles per hour.

* Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

* Rubber Bands were invented in 1845.

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

* Queen Victoria's first act after her coronation was to remove her bed from her mother's room.

* Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world--an average of 10 ounces per person per day.

* Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

* There are more than 200 different types of Barbies.

* The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.

* The United States Department of Agriculture reports that the average American eats eight and a half pounds of pickles a years. Dill pickles are twice as popular as sweet.

* The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty-five pounds, is two feet long, and has walls up to three inches thick.

* Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone. Whispering and shouting stretch the vocal cords.

* The name Oz, in The Wizard of Oz, was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."

* Why is a wedding ring always worn on the third finger? It was once believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart. The vein was called "vena amoris", or the vein of love, and early writings on matrimonial procedure suggested that it would be appropriate for one's wedding finger to be worn on that special finger.

* Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.

* The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

* The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

* More people are alive today, than have ever died

The shortest sentence in the English language is, ‘I am’.

* The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

* Nervous people like crunchy food

* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants

* There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

* Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

* You are more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to be eaten by a shark.

* More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.

* An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.

* If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

* Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

* The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts about two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.

* 5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.

* Polar bears are left handed.

* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

* The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

* There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

* An elephant's trunk can hold two gallons of water.

* Cows can smell odors six miles away.

* Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.

* It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

* The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.

* On average, one heartbeat pumps five tablespoons of blood.

* The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

* The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

* Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.

* On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

* The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.

*Jellyfish do not have brains.

* John Lennon's first girlfriends name was Thelma Pickles.

*If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in a battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

*The city with the most rolls Royce per capita, is Hong Kong.

* Turkish towels are French and Indian ink comes form China.

* The word yo-yo actually means come-come.

* The longest word that can be spelled by using only the left hand on a standard keyboard is stewardesses.

* The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

*The only 15 letter word that can be spelled with out repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.

* The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

* Disney's Snow White was originally drawn as a Blonde

* The average women eats 20kg of lipstick in her life.

* Like fingerprints everyone’s tongue print is different.

* One in every 2.5 marriages ends up in divorce.

* Every two and a half years , there are two full moons in a month instead of the usual one full moon. The second full moon is called a blue moon.

* If you toss a 5 cent piece 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

[BigBlueDodge]

Did you know .....

Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of
pollen!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7
times!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in
the air is a skein!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using
products made for right handed people!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

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

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

Porcupines float in water!

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter of the alphabet!

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

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

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow
undisturbed on it's fur!

Cat's urine glows under a black-light! The world's termites
outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.

Except for the windmills in Ireland!

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing
sand!

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see
all four feet at all times!

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child
inside!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less
groove!

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!

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

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
tons!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies
from starvation!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of
cereal per year!

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in
Omaha, Nebraska!

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you
only have 206!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American
anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!

5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian
anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's
the weight of about 6 elephants!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so
the tears can't flow!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were
30!

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100mph!

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you
breathe!

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3
hours!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in
Switzerland!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

[-Pleiades-]

:shock: that's a lot of facts.....

[3Turner]

BigBlue, you must've been a little bored to compile all those facts....

[Citizensmith]

:shock: that's a lot of facts.....

Makes you wonder how many are facts, how many are urban myths, how many are physically impossible things someone worked out while stoned, and how many are just made up.

[tkoutdoor]

Makes you wonder how many are facts, how many are urban myths, how many are physically impossible things someone worked out while stoned, and how many are just made up.
I think he borrowed Hot Girl's book...

[-Pleiades-]

Makes you wonder how many are facts, how many are urban myths, how many are physically impossible things someone worked out while stoned, and how many are just made up.

probably and equal combination of all those things....

[Cybnew]

At least one of them..."A Ducks quack produces no echo" is false. Thank you mythbusters and modern sound recording equipment!

[ZeroFiveOne]

Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly it's State flag the same height as the US flag


::Sigh::...do people from Tejas still believe this to be true? :p

[3Turner]

::Sigh::...do people from Tejas still believe this to be true? :p
Honestly, I never heard that before.:rolleyes:

[ZeroFiveOne]

Honestly, I never heard that before.:rolleyes:

Any state flag may be flown at the same height as the U.S. Flag.

I always chucke when I read that somewhere or hear someone (usually a Texan) proudly proclaim that.

But I am a born-again Texan, so I understand...:)

[ZeroFiveOne]

The space shuttle, discovery, travels at speeds up to 17,00 MPH, over 300 times the speed limit.


I wonder if the Discovery is faster or slower than the rest of the Shuttles? ;)

If someone could DYK that one for me, I'd be much abliged!

[queenbee288]

That fact about screeched is the longest one syllable word it NOT true. When we prounounce it here in the south it has 3 syllables! Scre-e-ched.:lol:

[tkoutdoor]

"The space shuttle, discovery, travels at speeds up to 17,00 MPH, over 300 times the speed limit."

I think that number should read 17,000 mph.

[Tixeon]

Our Judicial Pecking Order does not allow little peckers to overrule big peckers.

[tkoutdoor]

Our Judicial Pecking Order does not allow little peckers to overrule big peckers.

Your signature reminds me of this story of Einstein...

One interesting anecdote, told by Otto Neugebauer, a historian of science, goes like this:
As he was a late talker, his parents were worried. At last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot." Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before. Albert replied, "Because up to now everything was in order."

His first words were a complete and cognitive sentence... I think I heard 6 as the age he began speaking when I first heard this story, but I have not found a quotable source for that part. What I'm finding ranges from 3 to 9.

[Nortelbert]

Did you know......* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Nope, it is not American. (http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp)

[CyberDyneSystems]

::Sigh::...do people from Tejas still believe this to be true? :p

While were on the subject

State flag can not be higher, but it can certainly be the same height,..
BUT the US flag would then need to be the left most flag from the viewers perspective, or "to the flags own right" as the code states.

For theatre folks the US flag if the same height as any other must be Stage Right :)

Likewise, the Stars are always to the left from the viewed perspective (stage right)

You can center the US flag in a group if it is taller than the others.

But one should not do this when it is displayed with other national flags. In that case they all need to be the same height, but on US soil the US flag is left most (stage right again)

[Tixeon]

tkoutdoor, Did you know.... your story of Einstein reminds me of a similar comedy skit done by Benny Hill a long time ago.... totally hilarious.

glad you found my sig interesting.