[photos] 14 Images to help you smile

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Which one gave you the biggest smile?

Beware of little girls on planes [humor]

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A stranger is seated next to a little girl on an airplane when he turns to her and says, “Let’s talk.  I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with a fellow passenger.”

The little girl who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and says to the stranger, “What would you like to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” smiles the stranger.  “How about nuclear power?”

“Ok,” she says.  “That could be an interesting topic but let me ask you a question first.  A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff–grass.  Yet a deer excretes little pellets while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass.  Why do you suppose that is?”

The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmm, I have no idea.”

To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don’t know shit?”

Amazing footage of a horse crashing into a car [video]

“Tourists in the Galilee region of Israel were left shocked when they filmed a horse trying to gallop over a car…”

Breathtaking “Visions of Earth” from National Geographic [photos]

How I wish I could travel, how I wish I could be in the right place and time to capture jewels like these (well, maybe not the second one).

Fetus of a foal in a jar

Brown tornado

Shuttle Endeavour flying over the Mojave Desert

"Morning Glories" roll over the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia (link)

Standing in Victoria Falls (found in "Visions of Earth" 2008)

Source

The entire series (2006-2009) found on the website is worth looking at.

Bizarre but beautiful deep sea creatures! [video]

I am terrified of the water but am enthralled with its inhabitants!  The further you go into the video, the more bizarre the creatures.

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.

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Related video: Glued to the Ocean Floor [so beautiful!]

What a unique & beautiful planet! [video]

If you need to see the positives in life, if you need to escape from constant reminders of poverty and violence, you need to watch this relaxing video!  When the camera flies over waterfalls and frolicking dolphins, I am so thankful for these reminders of how rich our world really is.

“The magnificent music was composed and graciously gifted for this clip by composer Jo Blankenburg.”

Smiles for today [video]

A N I M A L S

1. Funny animal voice overs.

2. Goat yells like a man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CvUjLgK5g

H U M A N S

3. This fork lift driver is going to have to fork over an explanation!

4. People sneeze in slow motion set to opera music

5. This is needed in today’s economic hardships!  If currency was replaced by kind acts…

World’s cutest bookend [video]

What an adorable video clip!  Waldo, the 6 week old kitten, fell asleep on the bottom of a bookshelf.  He is an ASPCA kitten in NYC.

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Polar bears attack woman at Berlin Zoo [news/photos/video]

A woman jumped into a moat (reason unknown) while polar bears were feeding.

After the female landed in the moat, the adult polar bear ran up and bit her several times.   According to police, several zoo workers then tossed rescue rings to the woman in an attempt to hoist her up and distract the other bears. The stoopid lady struggled, fell back into the water and another bear grabbed her before she was finally pulled to safety. It’s still not clear why she jumped into the polar bear habitat yet, but we’re guessing insanity had a bit to do with it. The woman was severely injured and taken to a local hospital for treatment.  Source

CNN video of rescue

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Kleenex moment…’Freeway the Fawn’ [video]

When a pregnant deer is fatally injured after being hit by a car, good samaritans try to save the fawn. This segment was taken from Episode 305 which aired on October 15, 1991 on CBS. This particular version of the segment was taken from a 30-minute syndicated episode, so small parts of it may have been cut out to make room for commercials.

Rooster with an attitude [video]

This is hilarious!  I don’t know if it’s got an attitude problem or a medical problem…

Watch it here.

Feather paintings…WOW!!! [photos]

This is a 5-star wowzer moment >>> Look at these

Trivia 2: Cigarettes, gold, snowflakes, and more…

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Anatomy

• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
• Our eyes remain the same size from birth but our noses and ears never stop growing.
• Everyone has a unique tongue print.
• Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
• Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Animals

• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The largest ant colony in the world stretches from Spain, through Germany, all the way to Italy, mostly underground. Thanks to the hive mentality of ants, any two of them, even if taken from the opposite ends, would instantly recognize each other.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• Goldfish have an attention span of 3-5 seconds.
• Sheep in Scotland faint if you jump out at them.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel–they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
• Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
• There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
• Octopus have three hearts.
• Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb.  The survivor is born.
• A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
• Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.

Entertainment

• During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
• Elvis got a “C” in music in grade 8.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Food

• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Chocolate kills dogs!  It affects a dog’s heart and nervous system.  A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Language/Literature/Words

• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
• The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.” There was never a recorded Wendy before.
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
• “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
• The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.

Other

• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
• The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles.  At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• Drunk drivers can be sentenced to death by firing squad.
• The “number of the beast” (666) mentioned in Revelations was actually a mathematical representation of the name Caesar Nero.
• Two-thirds of the world’s lawyers practice in the United States.
• Dacryphilia is arousal from seeing tears in a partner’s eyes.
• Porphyrophobia is a morbid fear of the color purple.
• The initials YKK on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.  It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines .
• Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
• The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
• There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C.
• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
• The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
• When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
• The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – a New Zealand hill.
• More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades: King David; Clubs: Alexander the Great; Hearts: Charlemagne; Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.  If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.  If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• The Romans used licorice near their pillows to shoo away bad dreams.
• The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
• Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
• 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

Sources come from all over the internet.

Q: What facts can you contribute to this list?

Listen to mosquito mate to the tune of “Feelings” [audio]

Image by Marcos Teixeira de Freitas via Flickr

Love is in the air–literally. When the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are looking for a mate, they create an overtone.  How did researchers figure this out?

First, the insects were anesthetized. “You make them a little bit chilly,” Hoy says, “then they don’t fly or walk around.” Next, he and his colleagues applied a small amount of superglue to the backs of the test mosquitoes, then affixed them to a tiny tether and suspended them in the air.

Once the mosquitoes began to beat their wings and produce their gender-specific flight tones, the scientists moved the insects close to each other.

The duet they produce (as you’ll hear in the audio) matches the pitch in the Morris Albert song “Feelings.”

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[Video]

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A beautiful and violent underwater world [video]

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Watch 13 minutes of vibrant video clips that show us some of earths most beautiful and violent habitats where some bizarre creatures live.  See a sulfuric storm, a 150 ft jellyfish, and the smallest octopus along with creatures that light up.  Click here to see the video.