Strange but true 10-8-08

Here is another Stranage but true....

Strange

But

True

By Samantha Weaver

For the Arkansas Weekly

October 8th, 2008

• Those who speak English call it a French Kiss, but those who speak French call it an English Kiss.
• It was Roman statesman Cato the Elder who made the following sage observation: "After I am dead I would rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
• At 140,000 a square mile, the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, located (unsurprisingly) in Hawaii, is larger than all the other U.S. national parks put together.
• Have you ever met an oligochaetelogist? You have if you've ever been introduced to someone who studies earthworms.
• If you could cut out a piece of a pulsar the size of a baseball and weigh it, it would be heavier than the Empire State Building.
• The largest diamond ever found was discovered in 1905 and weighed 3,106 karats, or more than 1 1/3 pounds, in the rough. After the Cullinan diamond changed hands several times, Kind Edward VII of England received it as a gift for his birthday. When he finally had the stone cut, the enormous diamond yielded 96 small gems and nine large ones, including the 530-karat Great Star of Africa.
• It was once custom among the Danakil tribe of Ethiopia to mark a man's grave with one stone for each man he had killed during his lifetime.
• If you're not a history Buff, you might be suprised to learn that durring the American Revolutionary War, more residents of the Colonies fought on the side of the British than on the side of the revolutionaries.

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Thought for the day: "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering ig there are men on base." - Dave Barry.