Fun Fact Friday

[Hasmonean1]

Post a fun fact whether if be true or prefabricated.

A dog will sometimes fake an illness to get attention.





True or False?   What say you?

[Mysteryman]

Post a fun fact whether if be true or prefabricated.

A dog will sometimes fake an illness to get attention.





True or False?   What say you?

Our church mothers call that second picture purging. This is what the swine should have done with legion. 

[phbrown]

Water at a certain temperature is more dense than Ice

[malthumb]

Fun fact:  You can hold an alligator's mouth closed with two fingers.  (trick is getting him to close it)

[malthumb]

Post a fun fact whether if be true or prefabricated.

A dog will sometimes fake an illness to get attention.

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True or False?   What say you?

I TOTALLY believe this.  I believe I have fallen victim to this.

[berbie]

Did you know that when a country dog moves to the city, all the city dogs get upset.  When the country dog faces them, they bark at him,  and if he tries to rum,  the bite him in the

[phbrown]

I TOTALLY believe this.  I believe I have fallen victim to this.

I can see nemo doing it ... i remember a picture of nemo and yep nemo would so do that

[Hasmonean1]

Fun fact:  You can hold an alligator's mouth closed with two fingers.  (trick is getting him to close it)

I heard something along these lines before or maybe I've seen one of those crazy guys attempting to show everyone on TV.

[malthumb]

I heard something along these lines before or maybe I've seen one of those crazy guys attempting to show everyone on TV.

The picture I linked was originally of an alligator on the hood of a police car with a woman holding its mouth shut with one hand.  They must have changed the file location.....don't know WHAT that new picture is....

[Hasmonean1]

The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book.   


Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its surface tension.

[malthumb]

At the end WWI and WWII, all things German were so unpopular in the United States and Great Britain that a popular dog breed was renamed.  The dogs we call German Sheperds were reclassified by the American Kennel Club as Alsatians.  That name comes from the Alsace-Lorraine region along the French German border.  An area that has changed hands numerous times following wars where the French and the Germans are on opposite sides.  Explains why a town with the German sounding name, Strasbourg, is in France.

[phbrown]

today isn't friday ... but one day it will be

[Hasmonean1]

In a survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy; 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.

Ty Cobb was baseball's first millionaire.

In the early drafts of Back to the Future, Doc Brown had a pet chimpanzee.

[4hisglory]

LOL  Interesting. 

[malthumb]

The Toledo War of 1835-36.

The state of Michigan and the state of Ohio almost entered into armed conflict over the ownership of Toledo.  The US Government settled the dispute by giving Toledo to Ohio and the Upper Peninsula to Michigan.   



Leaving Wisconsin to say "What the what?  We weren't even in this mess!".  The Upper Peninsula is connected by land to northern Wisconsin, but is only reachable from mainland Michigan by boat or driving over the Mackinac Bridge.



Of course Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin all have football teams in the Big 10.  And Michigan / Ohio State is one of the most fierce rivalries in college sports.  Coincidence?

[Hasmonean1]

The Toledo War of 1835-36.

The state of Michigan and the state of Ohio almost entered into armed conflict over the ownership of Toledo.  The US Government settled the dispute by giving Toledo to Ohio and the Upper Peninsula to Michigan.   



Leaving Wisconsin to say "What the what?  We weren't even in this mess!".  The Upper Peninsula is connected by land to northern Wisconsin, but is only reachable from mainland Michigan by boat or driving over the Mackinac Bridge.



Of course Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin all have football teams in the Big 10.  And Michigan / Ohio State is one of the most fierce rivalries in college sports.  Coincidence?

My Father-In-Law, who is from Detroit, told me about the genesis of that rivalry.  Every time I pass through Toledo on the way to Mo-Town I be like it doesn't look like much to me.  Dayton looks much better from what I can see from the interstate.

[malthumb]

One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.

I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.

[phbrown]

One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.

I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.

YES!!! I can't wait!

[malthumb]

One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.

I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.

Since it's ALMOST Friday where I am, I will start this week's Fun Fact Friday as wifey and I pack to head home from Paris.  We were going to stay at the aforementioned Marriott on the Champs-Élysées, but our neighbor / travel agent thought we might like the Marriott owned Renaissaince at the Arch de Triomphe a bit better.  I think she was right.  In any event, we had a blast.....now the 6-hour plane ride.....

Now today's Friday Fun Fact.....

Been to a department store lately?  Thank Emporer Napoleon III.  He was that other Napolean guy's nephew.  In one of his efforts to spur the French economy after taking over as the first elected President of France, he supported the development of Le Bon Marchè in Paris in 1862.  Printemp followed in 1865.  We visited Printemp earlier today.  Oh, a bonus fact....the architect of the store for Le Bon Marchè was Gustave Eiffel.  Most department stores from that time forward copied his basic architecture.  We visited another of his projects.

[Hasmonean1]

The French have always been fashion forward.  My wife might find that fun fact interesting. (shoppaholic)