Can you teach me something today?

Answer 1

When you go to buy bread in the grocery
store, have you ever
wondered which is the freshest, so you "squeeze"
for freshness or
softness? Did you know that bread is delivered
fresh to the stores
five days a week? Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. Each day has a different color
twist tie.
They are: Monday = Blue, Tuesday = Gr een,
Thursday = Red Friday = White and Saturday = Yellow.
So if today was Thursday, you would want red twist
tie; not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)!
The colors go alphabetically by color Blue- Green -
Red - White - Yellow, Monday through Saturday. Very
easy to remember. I thought this was interesting. I
looked in the grocery store and the bread w rappers
DO have different twist ties, and even the ones with
the plastic clips have different colors. You learn
something new everyday! Enjoy fresh bread when you
buy bread with the right color on the day you are
shopping.

Answer 2

Knowing the length of an item, or the distance to a wall, is often critical to doing a successful wiring installation job. Measurement should not be left to chance. A measuring wheel is used to estimate the length of a cable run. The wheel has a counter mounted on the side. An installer simply rolls the wheel down the intended path of the cable. The counter will indicate the distance traveled.

Of course, an installer should be careful to have a steel measuring tape on hand. These are handy for many measuring and estimation jobs. For instance, if you need to quickly determine how long a coil of rope or wire is, simply count the number of loops in the coil, measure from the middle of the coils on one side, through the center of the coil, to the middle of the coils on the other side. Multiply this measured distance by 3.14, and multiply that result by the number of loops.

Answer 3

Hmmm... as long as you aren't the decoy for Dateline's "To Catch a Predator." :-)

Here's one: It's highly unlikely that all the ice on the planet will melt due to global warming. There is a current that goes in a circle around Antarctica which keeps it insulated from the rest of the planet, to some extent. We may see melting of the glaciers in the northern hemisphere and maybe even Greenland. But the majority of the ice is there in Antarctica. There is an ice shelf over the ocean that might break off, but that's all that's likely to happen there. The result is that, we're looking at only a meter or two of sea level rise at the most. That's still pretty devastating, but not nearly as bad as the hundred or so meters that would occur if all the ice melted.

Answer 4

Napolean sold the Lousiana purchase to America for 15 million dollars. He did so because he did not want to have to defend the land due to his ensuing war with Britan in Europe.

Answer 5

Stephen Taylor holds the world record for the world's longest tongue. It measures 9.5 centimeters from the tip to the center of his closed top lip. Annika Irmler holds the record for longest female tongue, at 7 centimeters.

Answer 6

Alcatraz was raised in a very small town called Connors in New-Brunswick Canada.

Answer 7

Sure!! Did you know that mice don't like to be around rats? Weird huh? They're like the same species but they don't like each other. My thought is which one would you raather, being infested with small mice, or having to keep one big azz rat as a pet?? Things that make you go HMMMMMM........

Answer 8

Polar bears and penguins live on opposite ends of the earth....
I just learned that on Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader!!!

Answer 9

Sure.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

True fact.

Answer 10

He was born Napoleone di Buonaparte (in Corsican, Nabolione or Nabulione) in the town of Ajaccio on Corsica, France, on 15 August 1769, only one year after the island was transferred to France by the Republic of Genoa. He later adopted the more French-sounding Napoléon Bonaparte.

The family, formerly known as Buonaparte, were minor Italian nobility coming from Tuscan stock of Lombard origin[citation needed], set in Lunigiana. The family moved to Florence and later broke into two branches; the original one, Buonaparte-Sarzana, were compelled to leave Florence, coming to Corsica in the 16th century when the island was a Genoese possession.

His father, Carlo Buonaparte born 1746 in Republic of Genoa; later attorney, was named Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in 1778, where he remained for a number of years. The dominant influence of Napoleon's childhood was his mother, Maria Letizia Ramolino.[1] Her firm discipline helped restrain the rambunctious Napoleon, nicknamed Rabullione (the "meddler" or "disrupter").

Napoleon's noble, moderately affluent background and family connections afforded him greater opportunities to study than were available to a typical Corsican of the time. On 15 May 1779, at age nine, Napoleon was admitted to a French military school at Brienne-le-Château, a small town near Troyes. He had to learn French before entering the school, but he spoke with a marked Italian accent throughout his life and never learned to spell properly.[2] It was here that Bonaparte first met the Champagne maker Jean-Remy Moët. The friendship of these two men would have lasting impact on the history of the Champagne region and on the beverage itself. [3] Upon graduation from Brienne in 1784, Bonaparte was admitted to the elite École Royale Militaire in Paris, where he completed the two-year course of study in only one year. An examiner judged him as "very applied [to the study of] abstract sciences, little curious as to the others; [having] a thorough knowledge of mathematics and geography[.]" [4] Although he had initially sought a naval assignment, he studied artillery at the École Militaire. Upon graduation in September 1785, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant of artillery and took up his new duties in January 1786 at the age of 16.[5]

Napoleon served on garrison duty in Valence and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 (although he took nearly two years of leave in Corsica and Paris during this period). He spent most of the next several years on Corsica, where a complex three-way struggle was playing out between royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. Bonaparte supported the Jacobin faction and gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of volunteers. After coming into conflict with the increasingly conservative nationalist leader, Pasquale Paoli, Bonaparte and his family were forced to flee to France in June 1793.