sig for A.Word.A.Day from Jan 16, 2011 ("intromit"):

"If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit."
-Robert Brault, writer (b. 1938)

only 5 this time; one cap was one i'd posted earlier (the one with Barbie's full name).

• Real Fact #754 - An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
• Real Fact #822 - The only jointless bone in the body is in your throat. I looked it up--it's called the hyoid bone.
• Real Fact #868 - Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.
• Real Fact #882 ( Read more... )

• "Real Fact" #675 - More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.
• "Real Fact" #759 - A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• "Real Fact" #799 - The official color of California's Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.
• "Real Fact" #893 - Jack-O-Lanterns were originally made out of turnips.
• "Real Fact" #902 - Barbie's ( Read more... )

from a 6-pack of raspberry tea:

• "Real Fact" #680: More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.
• "Real Fact" #745: Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• "Real Fact" #767: Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
• "Real Fact" #770: Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.
• "Real Fact" #798: Tennessee ( Read more... )

from my six-pack of Snapple peach tea:

• "Real Fact" #685: Dogs can make about ten sounds, cats make about 100.
• "Real Fact" #740: Poison ivy is not ivy and poison oak is not an oak. They are both part of the cashew family.
• "Real Fact" #786: The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.
• "Real Fact" #796: India has more English ( Read more... )

stat from the "Lie to Me" page on Hulu:

"A survey found that 98% of teenagers lie to their parents. Apparently the other 2% lie to people who conduct surveys."

( See the video clips )

Albert Einstein quote at the beginning of the pilot episode of Eureka (which i am only now watching for the first time, four years after it first aired):

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
So is a lot.

from tonight's The Colbert Report:

Stephen: Stephen Hawking warns against contact with aliens! Sounds like someone's running for governor of Arizona!

***

Stephen: Senators Schumer and Franken want to improve Facebook's privacy practices! Guys, just go on MySpace. You can have all the privacy in the world.

tip on meditation from the dailydharma for Nov. 21, 2009:

To meditate is not to empty the mind and gape at things in a trancelike stupor. Nothing significant will ever be revealed by just staring blankly at an object long and hard enough. To meditate is to probe with intense sensitivity each glimmer of color, each cadence of sound, each touch of ( Read more... )

via a friend:

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
--Isaac Asimov
also, i've been meaning to post this one for a while. It stood out to me because most soundbites about human nature refer to either its baseness or its nobility, but not both. From ( Read more... )