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We got class ranks at school today...I'm 498 of 668 people...I rose haha! I used to be in the 500s

I found Google in Latin! It's so cool haha: http://www.google.com/intl/la/

The Friday five hasn't updated so I shall do this instead..you gotta put your initial and write a word for the category that starts with that letter
Your first initial: H

1. Actor/Actress: Helen Hunt
2. 4 letter word: Horn
3. Street name: Heather (seriously haha it's in my neighborhood)
4. Color: Henna?
5. Gift/present: Hot Luca...bwahahahaaaa
6. Vehicle: Horse drawn carriage
7. Tropical Location: Haiti
8. College Major: History
9. Dairy Product:
10. Thing in a Souvenir Shop:
11. Boy Name: Harold
12. Girl Name: Hilary
13. Movie Title: Highlander
14. Beer:
15. Occupation: Historian
16. Flower: Hibiscus
17. Celebrity: Helen Hunt
18. Magazine:
20. Band: HammerFall


A moth has no stomach.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
Minnows have teeth in their throat.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
7,000 new insect species are discovered every year
Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
Mushrooms are more closely related to humans and animals than to other plants!
While humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes!
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
the albatross has a wingspan of 14 feet and can travel for thousands of miles each flight.
if all sunday newpapers in the US were recycled each year, 26 million trees would be saved.
the wingspan of a boeing 747 is longer than the wright brothers' first flight.
montana mountain goats can butt their heads so hard, their hooves will fall off.
astonauts are unable to burp in space. They can't cry either.
the energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will generate a TV set for 3 hours.
for 20 of its 248 year orbit, pluto is closer to the sun than neptune.
there are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used leaves, torn up newspaper and corncobs - yes corncobs - to take care of business.
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Dr. Harvy Kellog was trying to cure masterbation when he accidentally made corn flakes.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
the last letter to be added to the basic alphabet (a-z) was J.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
before rubber was used for erasers commonly, people used bread to erase their pencil mistakes.
People all over the world use Google, and it is available in many different languages, including Bork, bork bork!, Elmer Fudd, H4x0r, Klingon, Latin, Pig Latin and Swedish.


Today's Latin: amicus verus rara avis est (a true friend is a rare bird)

"To live in honor, quoting freedom's name, a noble stance bearing a proudful mane, noble savage"--"Noble Savage," Virgin Steele

Date: 2007-01-20 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foxydanish.livejournal.com
I am taking a quick break from fixing my iTunes haha. :p

Haha nice answers for your "H" survey! :)

Oh yeah, and I didn't say this in your most recent entry, but that's cool that you're doing that Latin competition thing...I bet you'll do awesomely! :) Ohh and yay for not being in the 500s anymore! :)

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