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On today’s date January 6th
In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married in New Kent County, Va.
too add to the randomnes of the above:
January 6
When someone dies their hair still grows for a couple of months
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had
cofeefan I am speechless
why Derech HaMelech??? did i do something wrong?
It’s illegal to graffiti cows in Texas.
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”
The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines
It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog
shucks, i wanted to drive my car by remote control, not a steering wheel! wat kind of law is this?!
not all snapple facts are true
tomatoes are fruits
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
Tosfos says they can. That is how you might make a kinyan hagbaha on an elephant. You hold food above its head and make it jump.
“Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump”
B”H for that, if true. Popa, I also heard that they cannot jump, due to the nature of their legs and bone structure.
the human head ways ten pounds-jerry mcguire
popa: Don’t tosfos say to make it walk up a ramp?
mikehall: whose head?
Many parts of a pine tree are edible.
India has a bill of rights for cows.
african elephants can jump. It’s been proven.
Actually, I read an article by Nosson Slifkin about it.
His position is that:
A. Elephants cannot jump.
B. Tosfos had never seen an elephant and had only seen pictures, which usually depicted elephants with bent knees like any other animal which indicates they can jump.
C. It is not a problem to say tosfos was mistaken since the tosfos serves a purpose in any event by telling us that you can do hagbaha by making the animal jump.
I am skeptical of his arguments. Tosfos was only willing to say that you can do hagbaha by making it jump since the gemara said you could use “pili” to acquire an elephant.
It therefore comes out that the halacha should really be that you cannot use jumping.
It seems to me that if tosfos was wrong, the halacha is also wrong.
I have no idea what the answer is.
Earth shattering random fact:
Today was Shabbos. Tomorrow will be Sunday…
Smartcookie,
I sure hope not! (b/c then it’s not today and tomorrow)
better would be is today is Sunday tomorrow is Monday 🙂
There was some earth shattering fact mentioned before.
If you shout “don’t look!”, everyone will look.
itchesrulik:
The gemara says to use branches, tosfos offers two possibilities of how that is done.
“tomatoes are fruits” – in China people eat tomatoes as a dessert
why Derech HaMelech??? did i do something wrong?
You’re random facts were really really random.
derech- i thought that was the point…. =)
At one time, no one ever ate tomatoes, because they thought them to be poisonous. They actually are related to the “Deadly Nightshade,” family, I believe, and that is where the fear arose.
cofee fan:
it is, but the extreme randomness of your random facts was overwhelming random.
randomly.
Just like no 2 ppl have the same finger print, they also don’t have the same tongue print!
oomis: actually the chlorophyll in the leaves and stem of the tomato plant is poison.
U-Haul is the world’s largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference.
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth’s gravitational pull.
The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference.
Really? It doesn’t seem like it. But if its in the CR it must be true.
Really? It doesn’t seem like it. But if its in the CR it must be true.
Derech- no! In the CR you’re supposed to say:”source please???”
source? umm… Rambam? 🙂
“Pins are 4.75 inches wide at their widest point and 15 inches tall.” -United States Bowling Congress
my little brother’s favorite color is red
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means the fear of long words.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
I have heard this, but do not believe it.
If you begin with a piece of toilet paper which is 100 billion miles long, and fold it 8 times, the length will be 390,625,000 miles.
I see no reason why a paper which is that long and is the thickness of 2,000 pieces of toilet paper could not remain folded.
PBA: I always thought that too. A physicist once tried to explain why I was wrong. I didn’t understand it.
Coffeefan: “Go!” is the shortest complete sentence. It has an implied subject.
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food.”
Goq you’re like a teenage driver. You seem to be doing a lot of bumping today
The Earth, contrary to popular belief is an Oblate Spheriod, not a Sphere.
At 2.5 million times atmospheric pressure, Hydrogen becomes metallic.
The halacha states that one must use a liquid when cleaning oneself from excrement. It says that paper is not good enough.
What does bobbys cow think about the majority of yeshivos which have stalls and therefore water is not available?
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