Factastic Fact Friday

Hope you have a Factastic Friday!

• According to U.S. Patent Office records, Thomas Jefferson was the inventor on the first hideaway bed.  When not in use it was hoisted to the ceiling and secured by ropes and pulleys.
• Each seed of the palm tree Lodoicea seychelarum weighs 30 pounds
• The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds.
• The word "horse" in horseradish has no relation to the animal.  It means "coarse" or rough"
• Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away
• South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.

Enjoy!

Factastic Fact Friday.

Heck, this Friday only has a few hours left, but I would hate to have you start off your glorious weekend without these factastic facts! ;)  Enjoy!

• Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness
• The mango is the most consumed fruit in the world
• The giant panda can eat up to 83 pounds of bamboo a day
• A duck has 3 eyelids
• An alligator can go through 30,000 teeth in a lifetime

If you have any factastic facts you'd like to share: email us at truliescrumptious(at)gmail(com)!

Factastic Fact Friday.

Hope your Friday is a fantastic one!! Here's some new factastic facts that you may not have known before. Enjoy!!

• On average a laptop uses half as much energy as a desktop computer
• Your big toe only has two bones and the rest have three
• Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought
• A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon
• Jack-o-lanterns were originally made out of turnips
• The fear of vegetables is called lachnophobia

If you have any factastic facts you'd like to share: email us at truliescrumptious(at)gmail(com)!

Factastic Fact Friday

Hope your enjoying a lovely Friday!

• If you had one billion dollars and spent one thousand dollars everyday, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all.
--gosh. I guess I could try and spend that much everyday... If only!!
• More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild
• A male cricket's ear is located on the tibia of its leg
• When thirsty, a camel can drink 25 gallons of water in three minutes
• Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

If you have any factastic facts you'd like to share: email us at truliescrumptious(at)gmail(com)!

Factastic Fact Friday.

Since three of you liked Fact Fridays, I suppose I'll keep it.  But am changing the name to Factastic Fact Friday.  Fruity has become too...fruity for me.

Here you are!

• In Germany the shhh sound means hurry up.
• It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech
• Tug-Of-War was an Olympic sport in the early 1900's
• The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write roughly 50,000 English words
• Baking soda makes a great scouring cleanser, and it's naturally chemical free
• Fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air

If you have any factastic facts you'd like to share: email us at truliescrumptious(at)gmail(com)!

T minus {less than} 1 day...

Before you stuff your face tomorrow {I know I will :} feed your brain with some factoids about Turkey Day. 

1.

• The author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb",  Sarah Josepha Hale campaigned for nearly 20 years to get Thanksgiving to be recognized as a national holiday.  She finally convinced Lincoln, saying that it would unify the country after the Civil War.  October 3, 1863 Lincoln declared the fourth Thursday as Thanksgiving.  It didn't become official until 1941 while Roosevelt was president.

2.

• The date of Thanksgiving was once changed to boost the economy.  During the Great Depression, 1939-1941 it was changed to the second to last Thursday in November to extend the Christmas shopping season by one week.  It was only recognized by few states.  Texas however recognized Thanksgiving as both the second to last week and the last week.  It became so messy and confusing that Congress compromised and declared Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November, which is sometimes last and sometimes second to last in 1941 to begin in 1942.

3.

• So why do we eat turkey on Turkey day?  Again thank Sarah Hale.  She wrote many editorials outlining recipes to be used such as turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce. 

4.

• What did the pilgrims actually eat at the first Thanksgiving?  Such things as deer, fowl, flint corn, cod, bass and other types of fish.

5.

• Europeans commonly celebrated a days of thanks about the time that pilgrims came to The New World.  The new Americans brought this tradition taking out time to celebrate such as a good harvest crop, any time a drought would end, a safe arrival of a European ship, or a harsh winter was survived.

6.

• The word "Pilgrims" came about from William Bradford's "Of Plymouth's Plantation" where he mentions "pilgrimes" and comments on their journey to the new world on the Mayflower.  By 1820 at Plymouth's bicentennial the term pilgrim was officially coined to describe this group by Daniel Webster.

7.

• Only about half of the 120 people on the Mayflower were Pilgrims.  The others, or "Strangers" were just hitching a ride over the New World.  

8.

• 16th century North American turkeys were introduced to Europe. The guinea fowl which was largely popular in Europe which were imported  from Madagascar via the "Ottoman Empire".  The merchants were nicknamed "turkey merchants" which then gave the guinea fowl the nickname "turkey fowl".  The guinea fowl was thought to been related to the North American turkey so thus shortening "turkey fowl" to just TuRkEy.

9.

• The term "Turkey Shoot" literally comes from shooting turkeys. In the late 19th century competitions of marksmanship were held where the turkeys were tied to a log with only the head exposed and, well you get the jist...

10.

• Everything we know about the "first" Thanksgiving comes from two passages.  One from Edward Winslow writing to a friend in England and the other, an account from William Bradford some 20 years after the fact.

FRIDAY! {Fruity Fact}

I have some {trulie} scrumptious new facts for today.  And for those of you waiting for the chicken pot pie in a pan recipe...it's coming-promise :)

{I think I'll have to make it again anyways since it's so YUM!}

El FACTOS:

• Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea-instead of sugar.

• In 1914, movie theaters became so popular that ushers in New York theaters were trained by West Point graduates to move masses of people though small spaces.

• There are approximately 1 million species of animals on the earth.  Of these approximately 800,000 are insects.

• A surprising number of English words pertaining to the nose begin with the letters SN-snarl, sneer, sneeze, snicker, sniff, snore, snort, sniffle.

Hope you {trulie} enjoy your weekend!

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fruity Fact Friday

More fascinating facts for your happy Friday!

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.

Cats have over 100 vocal chords.

Camel’s milk does not curdle.

All porcupines float in water.

The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.

Fruity Fact Friday

A honey bee can fly at 15mph.  That's some fast, flying honey!

A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.  Talk about baby making skills...

A bee has five eyes. All the better to steeing you with.

The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.  So fast they can fly into your house no matter how fast you shut the patio door.

Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas. Monkey? or Mosquito?

ew.

#1 A Goldfish’s attention span is three seconds.  What?  A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds. Say that again? {baha}

#2 Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.  Do you have an innie, or an outie?

#3 Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water. I think I can for 45 seconds...

#4 Slugs have four noses.  Think about the tissues he'd go through if he had a cold!

#5 Camels have three eyelids.  Can you say Vavavava-volume mascara?!

Happy Friday!

Fruity Fact Friday

• Happy Friday! Most lipsticks contain fish scales
• No two corn flakes look the same   
  Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
  8% of people have an extra rib
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  85% of plant life is found in the ocean
  

Fruity Fact Friday

Warning:

 This Fridays' Fruity Facts might make your head spin with scientific-ical space facts :}

I've always considered myself a nerd, if you will.  I like history, English, books and I like science.

{not to mention Star Wars!}

I've always been infatuated with the night sky and it's many wondrous stars and galaxies.  

I remember when I was in 6th grade, talking about the universe with my dad, he told me that there are more stars and planets than there are grains of sand upon the earth. 

Since then I've been hooked. 

So for all of you science nerds...

This is for YOU!

• A pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons to densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on Earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.

• As late as 1820, the universe was thought by European scientists to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be about 13,700,000,000 years old.

• A "light year" is a measure of distance, not time. It is defined as the distance light travels in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometres each second, so in one year, it travels about 9,500,000,000,000 kilometres.

• The matter in the universe is so thinly dispersed that the universe can be compared with a building twenty miles long, twenty miles wide, and twenty miles high, containing only a single grain of sand.

• The Milky Way has a radius of about 50,000 light years.

• Physicists believe that our universe does not have three dimensions or four dimensions, but eleven dimensions (ten of space and one of time). We do not observe the extra spatial dimensions because they are curled tightly around each other.

• If space is infinite, there is nothing on the other side. If space is finite because it has been bent around upon itself because of gravity, then again there is nothing on the other side of it because there is no seam. It looks like the surface of a smooth ball which represents a piece of flat paper bent upon itself.

• There are an estimated 50 thousand million galaxies in the universe, with the typical galaxy containing 50 thousand million to 100 thousand million stars. It is estimated that there are 10²² stars in total in the universe. 

• Most of the elements found in the human body originated in stars; we are literally made of stardust

Just SMILE!

There's something about a smile that just brightens your day.  It really doesn't take a lot of effort and has millions of benefits.  I've only listed a couple.  :) 

So go on, squint your eyes (because you're not a faker!) and show off those pearly whites and makes someones' day today.

People with big grins live longer. In a study published last year, researchers pored over an old issue of the Baseball Register, analyzing photos of 230 players. They found that on average, the guys with bright, bigmouthed beams lived 4.9 years longer than the players with partial smiles, and 7 years longer than the players who showed no grin at all. We can't credit wide smiles for long life spans, of course, but smiles reveal positive feelings, and positive feelings are linked to well-being.

Smiles exert subliminal powers. When study subjects are shown an image of a smiling face for just four milliseconds—a flash so quick, the viewers don't consciously register the image—they experience a mini emotional high. Compared with control groups, the smile-viewers perceive the world in a better light: To them, boring material is more interesting, neutral images look more positive, even bland drinks seem tastier.

There are three degrees of happiness... An article in the British Medical Journal reported that it is indeed possible to spread the love: Within social networks, when one person is happy, the feeling migrates to two people beyond her. So if you smile, a friend of a friend is more likely to smile, too.

...and two types of smiles. Genuine smiles and fake smiles are governed by two separate neural pathways. We know this is true because people with damage to a certain part of the brain can still break into a spontaneous grin even though they're unable to smile at will. Scientists speculate that our ancestors evolved the neural circuitry to force smiles because it was evolutionarily advantageous to mask their fear and fury.

To spot a faker, check the eyes. When someone smiles out of genuine delight, a facial muscle called the orbicularis oculi involuntarily contracts, crinkling the skin around the eyes. Most of us are incapable of deliberately moving this muscle, which means that when a person fakes a smile, her orbicularis oculi likely won't budge.

Smiles have accents. When reading facial expressions, different cultures home in on different parts of the face. In the United States, we focus on mouths; the Japanese, by contrast, search for feeling in the eyes.

-Source Yahoo articles.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I

What makes you smile?

Fruity Fact Friday

It's that time of year, once again.

 The most wonderful time of the year for some parents.  

For some kids...

not so much.

In honor of  the beginning of a new school year, here's some Fruity Facts for your Friday.  Enjoy!

* The number of students enrolled in American schools from kindergarten through college now totals approximately 78.8 million.

* In 1995, approximately 50% of American schools had Internet access. Today, that number is 100%.

                                               
* The oldest public school in the United States is Boston’s Latin School, which was founded on April 23, 1635. Five of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Latin School graduates, including Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Adams and William Hopper.

* In the U.K., the term “public school” refers to a private academy. This seeming anomaly dates back to the Middle Ages when private charities started schools to provide education for the poor.

* Although Thomas Jefferson had supported the concept of free public education, elementary schooling was only available to America’s wealthy until the 1840s when reformers like Horace Mann of Massachusetts and Henry Barnard of Connecticut began to push for tax-funded schools in the belief universal education would produce good citizens, unite society, prevent crime and end poverty.

* Until the 1930s, most Americans only completed eight years of school. “High School” only became popular during the Great Depression when job-strapped communities saw benefits to keeping teenagers in class and out of the workforce where they’d only serve as low-cost competition to adults.

* Today, the largest high school in America is Morton High School in Berwyn-Cicero, Ill., a co-op with more than 8,000 students. Its East Campus alone has 6,000 students.

* Of the 10 largest high school gymnasiums in America, nine are in Indiana.

* The largest college campus by enrollment is Ohio State University, which in 2008-2009 enrolled 53,715 students.

* The most expensive college by tuition is Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, with an annual tuition of $43,950. The most expensive college when figuring tuition along with housing, books, clothing, booze, etc., is Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, N.Y., with yearly costs computed to be $53,166.

Yeah, that's a lotta dough.

* Education pays. According to a recent study reported in U.S. News & World Report, college graduates earn an average $20,000 a year more than people who only have a high school diploma.

Fruity Facts

How about a little Fruity Fact Tribute to the great month of AUGUST!

*Lemon Meringue Pie Day on August 15th
*August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died.
*August is the busiest time for tourism, as it falls in the main school holiday of the year, the summer holidays, which lasts for six weeks for state run schools. 
*August is the height of the summer time in the temperature zone of the Northern Hemisphere. The longest day of the year is passed, but the hot days remain. In northern regions and mountains, cool nights and early frosts lets one know that the summer is coming to an end. In the southern hemisphere, August means the winter will soon be over. 
*The birds are already planning to fly south for the winter. The insects are more noisier and numerous than in any other month. This is perhaps the busiest month for businesses, since most people take their vacations in August. 
*The poppy and gladiolus are the flowers for the month of August. 

Isn't August the coolest!!

OH and don't forget.....

September 12 is...National Pet Memorial Day 

and National chocolate Milkshake day

So go indulge in a delicious Milkshake to celebrate this National Holiday!

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* Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.

* Hot water is heavier than cold

*At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale

*At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length

*Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions

*Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet
 -Funny story about skunks...

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Happy Friday EveryOne!!

Here's a few things you may not have known...

* Rats and horses can't vomit 

* If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.

* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

* A crocodile digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

* Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period. 

And now you know!