Here's one I heard last night on one of my wife's DIY home shows:

"The Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri's most popular lake destination, features more than 1,100 miles of shoreline – that's more shoreline than the coast of California."

I never realized it was that big.

 

I have a similar one for you. Here in Rhode Island, the smallest state in the country, that is only 48 miles long North to South, and 37 miles wide East to West, ..has 400 miles of shore line. Probably why it's called the Ocean State....lol. You want beaches, you like boating, we got lots of both.

 

Wow! That is one I'd never expect.

 

This shows the hundreds of miles of intercoastal waterways, bays, and regular shore line along with shoreline of the islands that are part of the state too.

 

Did you know that if you put your open carton of ice cream in a freezer bag and seal it in your freezer, it keeps it from getting freezer burned and keeps it soft?

 

Ummm.....no.....must do this to the mint chocolate chip ice cream I bought last night 😁

 

I am not trying to "one up", however. Lake Powell is located on the border of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. At full pool it has nearly 2000 miles of shoreline. That's more than the whole western seaboard of the US.

Norm

 

I've been through that area years ago. It's pretty out there.

 

Did you know all eels in America and in Europe, no matter where they live, all travel to the Bermuda Triangle to breed?

“ALL the eels in Europe and America are born in the Sargasso Sea (in the Bermuda Triangle! Ominous? Yes). Eels might even live in a landlocked part of Europe and yet they will travel thousands of kilometres over land (yes, land!) and sea to get
to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.”

The European eel and the American eel—both considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature—make this extraordinary migration. The Sargasso is the only place on Earth where they breed.

Its all programming.Just like those salmon fucks.Welcome to the matrix!

 

Did you know that the many Australians with convict heritage wear it as a badge of honour.

Those people were sent here on trumped bull-shit charges, and required to serve around 6-10 years of servitude and were forced to work virtually as slave labour and were treated like animals by the English gaurds.

Most did their time and went on have full contributing lives in Australia.

There are still many examples of the magnificent infrastructure bulit by the convicts around Australia

 

Did you know that the average human body has enough bones in it to assemble a complete skeleton?

Did you know that if you took all the blood vessels out of a human body and lined them up end to end to see how far they would reach, that human would be dead?

Amazing but TRUE!!!

 

Did you know that 9% of liberals are as stupid as the other 91%? Ya, true.

 

Looks like Alaska has the most shoreline mileage.........by a long shot! Florida would be next with 8000+ miles

https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/states/shorelines.pdf

 

Did you know that the BMW logo is a nod to the company’s aviation engine beginnings?

Yes the blue and white center represents the light and dark effect you see when a propeller is spinning.

 

I actually knew that!!!
I dated a guy that worked for a BMW motorcycle dealership, he told me.

 

Did you know that car designer Raymond Loewy famously associated with his breakthrough Studebaker designs like the Avanti also did a little moonlighting for companies like International Harvester.

He was the one that came up with the famous I H block letter logo. Not only simple and instantly recognizable he left a little Easter egg in it.

Can you tell what it is?


Yup it’s the rear view of the farmer on his trusty tractor. Get it?

 

"breakthrough Studebaker designs"? Work on a 1959 Studebaker Hawk then tell me that......especially, change the master cylinder......

 

Oklahoma has nearly 56,000 miles of shoreline along lakes and ponds containing about 1,400 square miles of water area. The most surface area is in Eufaula Lake with more than 105,000 acres, with Lake Texoma second (88,000 acres).

 

No matter where you go, there you are.

 

And you can't get there from here.

 

3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population

 

Kool-Aid, the popular powdered drink mix, was developed by Edwin Perkins (1889-1961) in Hastings, Nebraska.

 

James Garfield could write with both hands simultaneously in two different languages.

 

 

 

The $2 bill is older than the United States. In the spring of 1775, the Revolutionary War was starting, and that was, of course, the beginning of the American colonies’ telling the British monarchy to fuck off. War isn't cheap, though, and as the war kicked into high gear, the colonies faced the fact that they needed cash, and lots of it. The Second Continental Congress voted to issue bills of credit equal to 2 million Spanish dollars, and the first Continental Currency notes (money that was referred to as “Continentals”) were born. This money featured various denominations including the first standardized $2 bills, which were issued on May 10, 1775, more than one year before the U.S. officially declared independence on July 4, 1776. In those days money had a real backer, a standard. That concept is long gone now, though...

 

that was rude of the english, the norwegians promised to send it right back.

 

Have you ever driven to the summit of Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks?

If you did you probably passed by the toll booth/ranger station pictured below.

My grandfather built that building and won an architectural award for its design.

He was a self educated man who taught himself carpentry. Served in the Army in France during WWI.

I very much want to get back home to see this, this coming summer. I haven’t been here since I was a child too young to know.

There you have it. I’m proud of my grandpa although I never got the chance to meet him.

 

 

My great uncle was the first person to walk the Appalachian Trail. He wrote a book about it called Walking with Spring. Met him couple times as a kid. We had to do some work to his property when he died. Guy lived in the woods his whole life. Seemed like a good way to live. My Grandpa walked a large portion of it with Earl again when he was 71. Pretty cool.

“The Long Cruise” of Earl Shaffer | Appalachian Trail Conservancy “The Long Cruise” of Earl Shaffer | Appalachian Trail Conservancy

 

Another is Starling birds. Which were around when dinosaurs were alive. Supposedly they mimic dinosaur sounds which are passed down like a story. Hard to believe but this helps:

 

Wtf? Don’t guess I’ve ever seen a starling

 

It’s fortunate that the anus is fairly accurate at identifying gas, solids or liquids.

 

But as you get older, the dependability of its its identifications becomes suspect...