Truisms, Silly Stuff, Whatever <Thread #1>

Do NOT smack the Cop's horse


You just can't stop watching it. Curbside justice at its best.

This is a perfect case of justice properly applied in
a case of animal cruelty. I just hope the red car
belonged to the guy who went flying. Notice the
condition of the glass window after the flight.

Must be a parking ticket in his left hand!

FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW...for those of you who still have excess gray matter...


It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out
and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for
thousands of years .

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end .

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every
English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless
it's heated above 450F

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not
the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the
hand of man

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density

The University of Alaska spans four time zones

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of
marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy
Birthday.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun

The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it
was intended to prevent

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that
is why it is found in some medicines.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights
in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see
stars, even in the middle of the day.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is Sight .

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed .

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside ..

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams .

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

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

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set
up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are
needed at lift-off

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.