It's Joe's birthday week (his birthday is December 5th), so let's celebrate by giving him a week off!

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42 Incredibly Weird Facts You'll Want To Tell All Your Friends

1. The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It's 10 metres underwater.

3. In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn't work.

4. The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s (they were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle), and were made from animal and fish intestines.

5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

6. Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.

7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favoured hand.)

8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.

10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we've ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph.

11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you're eating it, so it's a good idea to shield it with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.

12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has been calling out for a mate for over two decades — but whose high-pitched voice is so different to other whales that they never respond.

13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus' tail are known among paleontologists as the "thagomizer" — a term coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing.

14. During World War II, the crew of the British submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it was a gift from the Russians).

15. The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat by retracting them into its head.

16. The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.

17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named "happyhour".

18. Experiments show that male rhesus macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.

20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.

21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the smiley.

22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist's dummy called Brendan O'Smarty. He was.

23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded several hours earlier. He'd tied the man's head to his horse's saddle, but while riding home one of its protruding teeth grazed his leg. He died from the infection.

24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads; its buildings are connected entirely by canals and footbridges.

25. A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.

26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth's day, by moving the spin of the Earth's axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us around 6.8 microseconds.

27. The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy seltzer".

29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. (It's actually oxidised salty water.)

30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.

31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.

32. Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack" insisted on going into battle armed with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword.

33. A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in 1983.

34. The longest musical performance in history is currently taking place in the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5, 2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last time the note changed was October 2013; the next change isn't due until 2020.

35. There's an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.

36. The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can only breed sexually when in the guts of a cat. To this end, when it infects rats, it changes their behaviour to make them less scared of cats.

37. The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches, who could be "played" by a keyboardist driving nails into their tails.

38. There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents, covering much of Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan.

39. The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across.

40. An epidemic of laughing that lasted almost a year broke out in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1962. Several thousand people were affected, across several villages. It forced a school to close. It wasn't fun, though — other symptoms included crying, fainting, rashes, and pain.

41. The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works. Please don't do it, though.

42. There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they'd stretch around the world more than twice. But, seriously, don't do that either.


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Love you Joe! Thanks for keeping the diner alive another year! I so appreciate you!

Hope your birthday week is a great one!

Have a happy and blessed week everyone!

Ana

Good morning, enjoy the day. week Joe. Birthday Cupcakes in the NC all week. It's finely cold here, 30's in the morning. Danish, Eggs, Grits, Hash Browns, Biscuits and Gravy, Bacon, Sausage, and Toast in the NC.

Ana when I saw your post in the last diner I thought I was in trouble for being late again.

Thank you so much.

This birthday kinda snuck up on me.

It was so sneaky it took 68 years to get here.

I was 53 when I opened the diner.

This morning came too early for me. I'd rather it come at about 10:00, than at 7:30.

Connie could I get some biscuits and sausage gravy please for this cold morning. Thank you so much, and thank you for the delicious cup cakes!!

It is very sunny today, but 28 degrees when I got up. Missy went out to potty at 7:30, and then ran back to bed and got under the covers.

She does that a lot. She just wants to get out of cooking breakfast.

I don't have a lot of plans today. I have to make an appointment to get my eyes tested. My glasses are about 4 years old.

I hope whatever you have planned today it goes smooth and safely.


joe

same thin, enjoy your birthday, hope it is everything you want.

Happy Birthday Eve, Eve, Eve, Eve Joe

connie, what does the temp rise up to? Thanks for breakfast!

Joe! You weren't in trouble last time, I was worried about you! Missy is adorable! If I could go back to bed while you made breakfast on a cold morning, I'm all in! Sleeping in for me is 7. A super duper sunday treat is 7:30. Most days I'm up and at it by 6:30.

family, enjoy!

L4L, hope all is well by you!

Ana

Good morning, enjoy your Hump Day. Ana, it got in to the 50's yesterday. We have 30's again this morning, and a high of 61 today. Dinner and karaoke tonight, masks and social distancing. Danish, Eggs, Grits, Hash Browns, Biscuits and Gravy, Bacon, Sausage, and Toast in the NC.

Good morning Connie, Family, L4L, Ana, and everyone.

Some biscuits and sausage gravy please Connie, and thanks again for your devotion.

Are you enjoying your colder weather?

Glad I was not in trouble Ana. I remember many days that I had to arise way before Mr Sun did, and oh boy I don't miss that one bit!!

How is Nugget? Has she had her surgery yet, I can't dismember when you said it was to happen?

It is so dark hear right now I can barely see my keyboard. I guess we may have rain chances today.

Thanks for the birthday congrats. I'm pretty happy that I made it a nuther year myself.

Have a safe day everyone.

joe

Wonderful Wednesday ya'll

It's cold in AL. It was 53 in the house when I got up. Put on all my warm clothes and then broke down and turned the heater on for a few minutes to thaw my fingers and toes. Looks like it will be warmer out though when I head out for my walk, which will be after lunch as I'm waiting for the warmest part of the day. It is beautiful and sunny and blue out there. Just have to duck the wind.

Washer is down for the count for at least a week. It will take that long for the part to come in. Have to add that to prayer list as we really use the washing machine around here.

Ana, what surgery is Nugget having?

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

It is getting a bit colder, but still between 5-10 C. We did have a bit of sub zero temperatures, but the ice on our cars was easily removable with a wiper.
Bit rainy lately and quite a few days with stonger winds. All in all we can't really complain (but as we are Dutch we will continue to do so).

same thing.

Connie, I'll take that 60's! Have a wonderful time tonight!

Joe, I did 4:30am for most of my office career. I recall your crazy hours at Lowes! You had quite a few middle of the night ones. Nuggets surgery update and photos are on FB, Joe.
She had surgery last Tuesday. Her side, her lip, her neck and her head. I'm running out of places to pet her.
Her cancer was the least it can be in terms of aggressive so we are praying she is on the mend! She is missing running!

L4L, Nugget had a cancerous mast cell tumor removed. She's doing well and on the mend!

Jarkeld, I always have to laugh at those who complain about the cold but either work from home or indoors. I work outside no matter what the temp is or if its raining etc and I rarely complain. I do love to come home to a nice hot shower though! Hope all is well in your corner of the world!

Have a great night all!

Happy Birthday Joe



Have a wonderful evening everyone

I love the idea of a "birthday week!" Have an absolutely great birthday week, JOE!

Good morning, have a Lovely day. I had a wonderful time last night with friends I haven't seen in months. We were all good and wore our masks and social distanced. Danish, Eggs, Grits, Hash Browns, Biscuits and Gravy, Bacon, Sausage, and Toast in the NC.

Good morning everyboomie.

Jarkeld your weather sounds similar to what we have. Maybe not as cold, but cold for us, and very overcast. Yesterday was rainy, while today is just cold and overcast.

Ana I remember many mornings when I had to get up at 3:30 for work at Lowe's, yes ma'am.

That's so awesome the Vet got all of the cancer out of Nugget.

Not much going on here. I've gotta get myself up and around real soon and take Missy parking, and exercise. That's my day in a nutshell. Pretty tough day.

Connie I'm glad you had a good time with your friends last night. I'll have my usual biscuits and gravy this morning please, and thank you.

I'm so predictable.

Thank you Soot, and Draclvr for the birthday wishes!

Have a super day everyone.

joe

Thumping Good Thursday ya'll

We are still cool but at least we have sun and blue skies. I'll be heading out to challenge the hills after I'm done sitting and sipping and surfing. Running out of work out clothes as the washer is broken and will be for a week, but I can just be gross on my run as I run alone.

Ana, I'm in awe of your "out in all weather" attitude.

Have a great day ya'll

same thing.

Good morning, enjoy your TGIF. Manicure and lunch with a friend today. Danish, Eggs, Grits, Hash Browns, Biscuits and Gravy, Bacon, Sausage, and Toast in the NC.

Hello Boomers, hope you are all well and staying safe.

Dear Joe, happy birthday to you when it comes. Thanks for continuing to offer this wee haven!

Much love,

Mary

Hi ya Mary

It is overcast and rainy in AL today. I woke up "ickky" so think I will bike inside today. Rain is supposed to stop this afternoon, but I have to take Lil Soot to a routine vet visit this afternoon.

Hope you all are having a wonderful day

sports and chores.

Good morning, enjoy the weekend. Joe, Birthday Cupcakes in the NC. Shopping today, working the kitchen for our dinner at the Eagles tonight. Danish, Eggs, Grits, Hash Browns, Biscuits and Gravy, Bacon, Sausage, and Toast in the NC.

Good morning Connie and thank you for the cup cakes! I'll splurge today and have two eggs over easy with sausage, hash browns, and wheat toast, thank you!!!

Good morning everyboomie, and welcome to the weekend!

It is a beautiful sunny morning here and about 48 degrees at the moment. Not bad at all.

My only plans, like yesterday, are taking Missy parking, and working out.

Steam had a sale, and I bought myself 3 games. I got the first two FEAR games (that I already have on DVD that won't play on Windows 10), and I got Crysis (which I also had on DVD, but cannot find anywhere). So I've been nose deep in those for the last week.

Connie enjoy the shopping, and have fun at the Eagles tonight.

Ana thank you so much.

I hope everyone has a fantastic day.

joe

The weekend has arrived

Off running errands ... BRB