random fact game

[Guest Guest]

Stonington, in southeast Connecticut, used to be a major shipbuilding and whaling center.

[Wilchbla]

The lowest place on earth, the Dead Sea, contains no fish or plant life.

[Wilchbla]

Curly Howard's birth name was Jerome Lester Horwitz. His full formal Hebrew name was Yehudah Lev ben Shlomo Natan ha Levi.

[Wilchbla]

Eugene "The Hitting Machine" Lockhart lead the 1989 Dallas Cowboys with 222 tackles.

[Wilchbla]

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph.

[Wilchbla]

The Egyptian game Senet is the oldest board game in the world. 3500BC

[tired]

1959 - At Griffith Stadium, the Baltimore Orioles become the first team in major league history to turn a triple play on Opening Day.

[Guest Guest]

According to a recent poll, only about 19% of professing Christians (I think it was 19%) have what one would deem a "Biblical Worldview."

[Wilchbla]

In 1893 a "World's Championship Series" was played by the Cleveland Spiders and the Boston Beaneaters. The Beaneaters won six games to zero with one tie.

[Wilchbla]

According to CIA World Book the world's debt is 54.6 trillon dollars (as of Dec. 31, 2008). America leads all debtors with a 12.3 trillion dollar debt (as of June 30,2007).

Only four nations have no debt.

Brunei
Liechtenstein
Palau
Macau (adminstrated by China)

[Guest Guest]

Liechtenstein is a very small Alpine principality in central Europe in between Austria and Switzerland, having only thirty thousand occupants or so.

[Wilchbla]

The supertanker Knock Nevis is 1,504 feet long making it the longest ship ever built.

[Wilchbla]

The necktie can be traced back to China's first emperor, Shih Huang Ti, in 210 BC.

[Guest Guest]

Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by Arthur Wellesley, who was later named the Duke of Wellington.

[John81]

On April 15, 1912, the "safest" ship in the world that "even God couldn't sink", the Titanic, sank.