2006-09-12 08:33:57 · 11 answers · asked by kindofkitty 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The first hospital in the USA was Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia, and when it was conceived Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote in the charter that no one shall be denied health care there. Til this day they cannot refuse anyone medical attention.
2006-09-12 08:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by PHILLYGUY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The top bun on a Big Mac has an average of 178 sesame seeds.
James Madison was our smallest president, at 5' even and 100lbs. William H. Taft was our largest, at 325lbs.
The final score in the poem, "Casey at the Bat" was Visitors 4 Mudville 2.
2006-09-12 15:41:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the greatest scientists, Sir Isaac Newton, even as knowledgeable as he was about physics and chemistry, practiced alchemy.
Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, but it was not for either the General nor Special Theory of Relativity, it was awarded to him for his work on the photoelectric effect.
Galileo was NOT the inventor of the telescope, it was a Dutch invention. Galileo was simply the first scientist of note to use it to look up at stars instead of out at things like approaching enemy armies or ships.
The Manhattan Project - the program created to produce the US atomic bomb--was chartered on December *6th*, 1941--before we officially entered WWII.
X-rays are called that because Rontgen, upon "discovering" them didn't know what to call them so he put an "X" [or unknown]in his notes and apparently never got around to giving them a proper name, so the term X-rays stuck.
2006-09-13 00:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cat has 32 muscles in each ear
When your heart squeezes out the blood, the motion resembles wringing out a washcloth
2006-09-12 16:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the space shuttle goes to leave orbit to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, I speeds up to like 17,000 miles per hour.....now that's amazing.
Oh, and Kevin Federline has genital worts...I know....yuk, but it's totally true.
2006-09-12 15:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by Joey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toasters have a sensor in one slot for cooking one slice of bread.
2006-09-12 16:47:51 · answer #6 · answered by ravin_lunatic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that the tiny bump at the top of your ear is called your Darwin's point.
2006-09-12 15:56:38 · answer #7 · answered by Princess415 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have gum under my shoe hehehe
2006-09-12 15:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by Meowmixtape 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler and Madonna were baptized Catholic.
2006-09-12 16:39:54 · answer #9 · answered by tfjea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that mules are sterile
2006-09-12 15:36:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋