Trivia About The Bald Eagle

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Jul 042017
 
Ten Independence Day Items of Trivia About The Bald Eagle:Trivia About The Bald Eagle
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  1. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson served on the committee that picked the eagle for the national seal [Franklin wanted the turkey].
  2. Bald eagles have few natural enemies and live only in North America.
  3. Bald eagles get their white head and tail feathers about 4/5 years of age.
  4. Bald eagles are not, and never were bald. The term comes from when “bald” meant “white-headed”.
  5. Their maximum speed: 40 mph or over 100 mph while in a dive.
  6. They can lift roughly half their body weight.
  7. The Bald Eagle is no longer considered endangered, and now only threatened.
  8. The only other kind of eagle in North America is the golden eagle.
  9. Bald eagles mate for life, but if one dies, the survivor will accept a new mate.
  10. It is a felony to shoot an eagle.

 

The Ocean Is Way Deeper Than You Think

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Jul 032017
 

Real Life Lore created a video that gives visual comparisons to help people understand just how deep the ocean really is.

The Ocean is a deep and scary world that is completely removed from most of our lives. In this video I explore just how deep the ocean actually is while discussing some of the strange life down there… and other just plain weird and odd things about the ocean.

 

Older Than Dirt Quiz

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Jul 022017
 
OLDER THAN DIRT QUIZ

 
INSTRUCTIONS: Count all the ones that you remember, NOT the Ones you were told about.

1: Blackjack Chewing gum
2: Waxed Coke-Shaped Bottles with Colored Sugar Water
3: Candy Cigarettes
4: Soda pop machines that dispensed Glass Bottles
5: Coffee Shops or Diners with Tableside Juke Boxes
6: Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7: Party lines on the telephone
8: Newsreels before the movie
9: P.F. Flyers
10: Butch Wax
11: TV test patters that came on at night, after the last show and were there until TV Shows started again in the morning.
12: There was only three (3) TV channels, if you were fortunate
13: Peashooters
14: Howdy Doody
15: 45 RPM records or 33 1/3 records
16: S&H green stamps
17: Hi-FI’s
18: Metal Ice trays with levers
19: Mimeograph paper
20: Blue Flashbulbs
21: Roller Skate keys
22: Cork Popguns
23: Drive- INS
24: Studebakers
25: Wash tub Wringers
26: Packard’s
27: Heavy metal grinder that hooked on to your pull out cutting board.
28: 78 records
29: Spin & Marty
30: Ritz Brothers

If you Remember 0-5 = You’re still Young
If you Remember 6-10 = You are getting Older
If you Remember 11-15 = Don’t Tell Your Age
If you Remember 16-25 = You’re Older Than Dirt

Now this is a way of raising money as a game each answer is so much money you have to pay. Only us Old folks would be paying a lot. ( Smile )

Games like this are easily made up, try making up your own!

Older Than Dirt Quiz



Truisms

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Jun 272017
 

1. A day without sunshine is like night.
2.. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
9. Support bacteria. They’re the only culture most people have.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
13. How many of you believe in psychokinesis? Raise my hand.
14. OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
15. When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
20. Why do psychics have to ask you your name?
21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, ‘What the heck happened?’
22. Just remember — if the world didn’t suck, we would all fall off.
23.. Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
24. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of jalapeno’s. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

 

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