All Blog Posts Tagged 'facts' (38)

Six Merry Facts about "A Christmas Carol"

Listen, Jena, I know I’ve gone on about Charles Dickens a bit this month, but it’s Christmas time, and no writer helps us define and celebrate the season like Dickens. So here are six interesting facts about his miniature masterpiece, A Christmas Carol.

Dickens wrote the book in just two months (October and November, 1843).
The first printing of 6,000 copies sold out in days.
Within six weeks of its publication on December 19, 1843,…

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Added by Brian Beise (Books Ningmaster) on December 20, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

thirteen year old in need of a penpal

now if you are to comment saying I'd like to be your penpal you wont geet picked i would like some reasons why you want to be my penpal if you dont speak english please dont ask I'm sorry i only know english. below is a list of things I like and dislikes.

Some things I like- gaming, let's playing, marching band (witch i view as a sport), nintendo, mario, learning obscure facts and quotes, math, public speaking, math, science, mind games, Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, The hunger games…

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Added by frank lubash on November 11, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies

In which Hank vlogs from a riverbank about Hitler, Shaq, floods, rocks, ants, ice cream, sexy back, punishments, sandwiches, dolphins...I mean, you really aren't gonna get much from the description...it's a weird… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on June 9, 2011 at 5:02am — No Comments

10 facts about me.

1. I have seen every single episode of Doctor Who since they brought it back.

2. I have a compulsive need to buy notebooks. Even if they're crap.

3. I've been to seven different schools.

4. I have a talent for wrapping gifts, and get annoyed when people just rip open presents, ruining the time and effort I took getting the bow perfectly central.

5. I wish I could write songs. Whenever I try, it sounds like a deaf child with no…

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Added by Susan Oxburgh on January 23, 2011 at 6:49am — 9 Comments

I do believe with this video I could single-handedly destroy the iPod industry with my earphone knowledge.

I do believe with this video I could single-handedly destroy the iPod industry with my earphone… Continue

Added by Rae Jackson on September 28, 2010 at 12:22am — No Comments

Day 83: More fun facts

Today, I'm going to give you some more facts from the Encyclopedia of the Bizarre.

"Alex," a pet gibbon, boarded a flight from Phoenix, Arizona to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and sat in a full-fare seat, undetected until lunch was served.

A house in Truckee, California, was painted in a clean-up drive in 1 minute, 58 1/2 seconds by 104 teenagers.

At birth, children in Kweilin, China, are given a hat which is expected to…

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Added by Jeffrey Adam Guion on April 2, 2010 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Day 28: Five facts . . . explained!

Almost two years ago (specifically, Feb. 27, 2008), I posted a blog on this site giving five facts about myself. Today, I'm going to explain a little more about them, unless I already have or, in one case, I will give it its own blog.

1. Once, I was hit on the head with a boomerang.

2. Another head thing. Last winter, my cousin Ben hit me in the head with a swing. It was quite painful.

3. Just last night, I put a pen down in my room, and now, I have no idea… Continue

Added by Jeffrey Adam Guion on February 3, 2010 at 1:32pm — No Comments

Day 19: Random facts

So, I have a collection of Snapple caps. I'm going to tell you the different facts on them. It should be fun!

An ant can lift 50 times its own weight.

Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."

If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's hearts.

The smallest county in America is New York… Continue

Added by Jeffrey Adam Guion on January 25, 2010 at 1:43pm — 1 Comment

Fun Holiday Facts

Hey y'all!

I made a video featuring some fun facts about the holiday season from Christmas to Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to New Year's. Enjoy!!

If you have any fun facts you'd like to share, let me… Continue

Added by Peaceandskittles on December 9, 2009 at 12:49pm — 2 Comments

Fun facts???????

Well, the only point of this first blog post (woot woot) is that the phrase "fun facts" CONFUSES THE HELL OUT OF ME.

Let's say you see a sheet that says "Fun facts about Barack Obama." I mean I would expect to see something like "Barack Obama had read all the Harry Potter books." (WHICH IS TOTALLY TRUE BY THE WAY!!!!!) In my house there was a sheet that said "Fun Facts about bottled water", left over from Awareness Day at my school. So I looked at it, and guess what?

IT'S NOT… Continue

Added by Gracie Rittenberg on May 26, 2009 at 5:48pm — No Comments

I <3 random facts

Hei :)

I was with a friend at my house today and we found this place on the BBC news website where there are 10 random facts per week and here are some that I found quite... amusing/interesting :)

1. Breaking wind is a bookable offence in football.

2. More than 97% of all e-mail traffic is spam

3. Chicks count.

4. The Daily Sport website is banned in the House of Commons. (england)

5. Britons spend six months of their lives queueing.

6. A broken heart is known… Continue

Added by Kaddie on April 11, 2009 at 4:47pm — 2 Comments

A Borrowed Post

I am calling this blog a borrowed post for this reason. I did this thing on facebook a few months ago where you list twenty Five random things about yourself. The only thing was, the facts were not really random, and anyone who knew me knew all those facts. That and it was also really rushed, and I didn't think it out. I decided for BEDA that I would completely redo the entire list, and make it to where if my best friend read it, they(I have two best friends Kathryn, and Clint) would have no… Continue

Added by Alicia on April 4, 2009 at 5:09pm — No Comments

My Random Facts

I pulled these from my page because it was taking me forever to scroll to the botton. So you won't be without your beloved facts I shall post them here.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'. In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission. In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow. In ancient Rome it was… Continue

Added by MeBeShannon on December 21, 2008 at 8:49pm — 1 Comment

Did You Know...

Mummified mongooses and images of the species have been discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs??

The national geographic website tells us useful things, however, it fails to tell us what we REALLY want to know...

Mongooses, or mongeese??

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/mongoose.html

Added by Zoey Gilbert on November 25, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Random Facts #1

So this is my first posting of what I hope will be weekly posts of random facts. Undoubtably, I may miss a week, but oh well. Here goes.

The font that Taylor Swift uses on her album covers is called Satisfaction.

President Kennedy was the fastest speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

When you die your hair and nails still grow for a couple of… Continue

Added by Rose on October 26, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Some things you may not know...

Seeing as I only actually know one person on here in real life, the rest of you know virtually nothing about me.

So, here are some facts xP

1] My full name is Jamie-Lee M-S Cuerrier, but most people just call me Jamie, and I will NEVER tell you what the initials stand for... Ok maybe not NEVER... I'd just rather not to lol

2] If you google me, you will find that the whole first page is actually of me, (unless you go into images, in which case then there are only… Continue

Added by Jamie-Lee on July 1, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven.

Five facts about me.

One: I am a Shakespeare fanatic.

This might be a bit of a hyperbole. A more correct statement is that I'm a Hamlet fanatic-- I despise Romeo and Juliet and didn't go gaga for Macbeth. But Hamlet? I live for that play. You can thank my AP English teacher for that one. I'm reading Ophelia right now and am completely mortified! To say that she faked her insanity and her own death is crazy; it's an insult to Shakespeare, really.

Two: I was once… Continue

Added by Michelle on March 27, 2008 at 9:46pm — No Comments

Konnichiwa, Watakushi-wa Georgie, desu.

Okay, so I've been an OFFICIAL NERDFIGHTER for 21 minutes (or thereabouts) and it feels AWESOME. I don't actually know why I haven't signed up for this before. I'm probably just lazy. I think I'm doing pretty well in my first hour as an OFFICIAL NERDFIGHTER I hope I've got some sort of record for my mammoth post on the 'Nerdiest thing you own.' thread. I'm such a geek for pokemon it's awesome. Admittedly I tried to make it look a little smaller with semi-colons, but that just… Continue

Added by georgieBOOM on March 25, 2008 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

oooOOOO Tagged

I was tagged to list 5 facts about myself :0 soooo

uno: I play 3 instruments: flute, piano, and guitar

dos: I'm an Atheist but a very moral person and I love proving people wrong; The generalizations for Atheists are usually troublemaker, druggie, etc. but I love going against that.…

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Added by Demi on March 21, 2008 at 8:21am — No Comments

I Got Tagged!?!

Ok, so I got tagged to do five facts about myself in a blog post... what to say...?

1. I have had 6 operations in my lifetime, the 3rd of which, I was so well behaved (as a boy) I was give a syringe (minus the needle) to play with and a wee certificate. I squirted my little brother with much water that day lol.

2. I am a musical chap. I mainly sing and play guitar, but also play bass, violin, drums and a little keyboard/harmonica. I play in two bands, my main one Durera… Continue

Added by theGlimmerTwin on March 14, 2008 at 9:09pm — No Comments