Single Serve Coffee Machine
Single Serve Coffee Machine questions and answers
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Q: Does anyone else have problems with their Tchibo Cafissimo Single Serve Coffee Machine?
I am trying to steam milk with this machine, and it steamed it, but now the steam light will not go out-I now cannot even make coffee to complete the Macciato.
I have tryed letting all of the steam out of the machine, but it still does not let me make coffee too.
A: Most espresso machines need to turned back manually to the coffee mode after using the steamer. Usually there is a button, switch or knob that does this.
Q: I bought a Tassimo Single-Serve coffee machine -?
Where can I get "to-go" paper cups that fit in the machine? I have an office, and I would like to offer my clients some coffee in a nice looking paper cup, preferably with a lid. The Starbucks 'tall" cups are too big...where can i get a variety of sizes of starbucks type cups with lids?
Thanks!
A: i use dixie brand "to go cups" available at target .
Q: Do those single serve coffee machines have a hot plate?
I'm thinking of getting one for my dorm, but we're not allowed to have hot plates, or things with hot plates.
These are the coffee machines where the coffee brews directly into a mug.
I don't mean a detatchable hot plate, the regular coffee makers I've seen heats the pot from the bottom.
This coffee machine doesn't have pods, it has a permanent filter for any kind of coffee and can also be used for soup.
A: Neither the Pod brewers, Keurig K-Cup brewers or Tassimo T-Disc brewers utilize a hot plate and would be perfectly suitable for your dorm room. All of them have an internal heating element to heat the water, but brew directly into a mug.
Which model you choose depend on your preferences and whether you are looking for just straight coffee or also coffee house style drinks like lattes or cappucinos. I would suggest a visit to the Single Serve Coffee forums to learn and read more.
Q: What's your favorite single-serve coffee maker, and why?
I want to buy a single-serve coffee maker, either pod-style or the little pressure-packets. If you use one, could you please let me know what brand, and what you like and don't like about it? Please don't just put the brand--- I can search brands on the Internet! I want to know if you're happy with your machine and pods, and why. If it broke, would you buy the same one again? Do you like the flavor selection available for your machine?
Money's important of course but I am more interested in getting a really good coffee than I am in saving a buck.
Thanks!!!
Thanks for the answers so far!
But I am really only interested in hearing about pod-style or pressure-pack style coffee makers. I am looking for the convenience factor--- no bean grinding, no water measuring. I want to put the packet in and press the button and be done with it.
A: tassimo, it makes any kind of coffe drink and hot chocolate. fast and easy to clean
Q: Does anyone have a single serve/pod coffee maker?
I'm looking into buying a machine like the Senseo, Tassimo, or Nespresso. If you have one, do you like it? Do you find it restrictive in terms of flavor/taste of coffees? Any feedback would be great. Thanks!
A: I tried the senseo, but now I am back to the traditional Italian Espresso maker that works without electricty.
Q: Tassimo coffee in regular coffee makers?
I have seen these single serve coffees in the store and they look great. Is there a way that you can use the coffee in a regular machine?
A: No, they're sealed in special little containers for that specific machine. However you can still get great coffee for a regular coffee machine.
The only reason those little capsules look so good is because of advertising. You can easily get better coffee from somewhere else, especially if you can find someone selling some nice locally roasted stuff.
Q: Coffee???? How in the world do I make a good pot of coffee??
I have given up all hope. If I'm not at work and the ground coffee doesn't come in prepackaged servings and I don't know exactly how much water to add to the machine....I can never make a good pot of coffee.
My mom gave me a 12 cup coffee pot for Christmas. Why I'm not sure because I live alone, but anyway. I only want to make enough coffee for 1 serving. How do i do this?
I have Folgers Classic Roast in Medium (I started out cheap since I didn't trust myself.) The side of the container says "1 serving (6 fl. oz.) / 1 tablespoon of coffee." Yeah....didn't work. I poured in 6 oz of cold water and 1 tablespoon of coffee.....and it sucked.
Help me please. How do I make one good single serving of coffee? What are the measurements? (I like strong coffee, not watered down.)
A: Well it would help if you told us why it sucked. Was it too strong or too weak. Then obviously you adjust either the amount of coffee used or water used, depending on whether you would have preferred it stronger or weaker. Don't worry, you'll figure it out. As for me, I LOVE instant coffee, love to have my water boiling. You may want to try instant, there are some great kinds out there and it may be easier for you!
Q: Made by the same piston machine & beans, what contains more caffeine, a double espresso or a regular coffee?
Oke, so we have the same beans, same grind, same 'per serving' dose, only in the single piston we make a normal, regular, black coffee, and in the double piston we take a double shot, and make a double espresso. Which one would contain more caffeine? I know an espresso contains a lot LESS caffeine than a regular coffee, but does that also count for a DOUBLE espresso?
A: Double Espresso contains double the caffiene so probably ~160 mg of caffiene. I think a regular coffee contains about 100 mg
Q: plz. help me to write the main idea of this article in the NY Times. in two pages.?
A: I really thought about helping you out here, just because it would be fun to write. Then I looked at your profile and see that:
1. You answer other people's questions so obviously without care and thought and apparently just for points so you can go ask more questions.
and
2. The people that are gracious enough to assist you or answer your questions most of the time don't even recieve the courtesy of you selecting the "best answer" but they are instead selected by voters.
So instead I decide that if you are not interested in doing the right, then why in the world should anyone be interested in helping you?
Q: Movie Clichés I Never Want to See Again. Can Anyone Suggest Any More?
“I’m Getting Too Old For This Sh!t!”
Movie Clichés I Never Want to See Again
•The opening of film on water, panning up to distant cityscape as we fly towards city. So overdone, so lazy, please establish your location in a more original way.
•In an effort to show what a loser/how lonely a character is, they come home and go to the answering machine and instead of reading the digital # readout like we all do, they press the button and we hear the female voice announce “You have no messages.”
•Person being chased reaches car or home. Door is locked, retrieves keys and drops them.
•One character has something important to say, something that will change everything but when they are about to say what they need to say, the other person will interrupt but then will say, “Sorry, go ahead.” But will be told “No, you go ahead.” And as a result, whatever it is the other person says will result in main character not saying what they were about to say. Even worse if afterwards the other person says, “I’m sorry, you were going to say something.”
•If the driver is speaking to the passenger, they will spend an impossibly long time staring at the passenger instead of at the road. Somehow they NEVER rear end the car in front of them.
•“I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you.” Seriously, can everyone PLEASE agree to delete this phrase from our collective consciousness?
•The person who notices some wet substance on the ground or wherever and bends down to run a finger through it, look at the finger (often rubbing two fingers together) and usually realize it’s blood.
•If you’re a woman and there is a killer on the loose, just take a relaxing bath and he will find you.
•If a person with important information to reveal tells the detective to come by at such and such a time and he will tell him all the info, he will be dead when the detective arrives.
•If a person good person dies with his eyes open, a friend will close them, and they will remain closed. If a villain dies with his eyes open, no one will close them, and the camera will linger on his face.
•All characters keep detailed newsclippings of important events in their lives, particularly those events that must be painful to recall, such as the loss of the character’s immediate family due to their own negligence. NB: If the news report would have come out while the character was in jail or on the run, all the more reason for the character to have kept it intact.
•If a person’s clothes get snagged on something, they tear very easily and leave a large, noticeable chunk behind. The Person trying to not be found never seems to realize this has occurred.
•If the movie is animated, one of the kid’s parents will be dead. This is almost always the mother.
•If there are three or more sisters in the movie, one of the sisters will be extremely neurotic and married to a lawyer/doctor/shrink, one will be single and looking for love (the lead) and one will be a mother with at least two kids (a boy and a girl or two girls, never two boys).
•Every sword/knife pulled from a holder always makes a metal against metal sound
•All movie mothers will prepare a breakfast, usually consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Dad and the kids will invariably arrive at the table 30 seconds before Dad has to leave for the office and the kids have to catch the school bus. Each will have time only for a sip of coffee/juice and/or one bite of toast. There must be enough food left over in these homes to feed a third world nation!
•Beverages are served either half full or completely empty (especially coffee).
•Coffee is never served steaming hot unless it is for comedic reasons
•When a helicopter is hit by a bullet or rocket, it’ll explode immediately if it contains a villain, but if the hero is on board, it will loose power, smoke will come out of the doors, and it’ll just reach the ground in time for the hero to get clear then duck just at the moment it explodes.
•Whenever a hero enters a dark room where he feels confident in being alone, someone (villain) will be sitting in a chair waiting for hero to turn on the lights before speaking. Sometimes intruder will be the one to turn on the light.
•The hero will always refuse the assistance of friends or medical personnel after a fight. If the hero gets into a second fight, his most injured body part will always be punched or kicked.
•A hero will show no pain even during the most terrific beating, yet he will wince if a women attempts to clean a facial wound.
•The bad guy has the good guy in his sights, his trigger finger poised to squeeze off a life-ending round. A shot rings out, and we shudder—but the hero does not fall. As he frantically checks his body for the mortal wound he must have sustained, a dazed look overcomes the villain’s face, and he slumps to the floor. Then, and only then, the camera reveals a gun-toting savior who blew away the baddie before he could kill our protagonist.
•Like above, only hero and villain are in a life and death struggle with gun, it goes off, who got hit? The same with a struggle over a knife. Any close up struggle with a pointy object will result in death.
•Walking toward the camera in slow motion as a massive explosion happens in the background, without flinching, and miraculously not being hit by any shrapnel
•In a scary movie, if someone is looking in the refrigerator for a late night snack, when they close the refrigerator/freezer door, the killer will be standing there OR a friend/parent will be standing there, startling them.
•Surprise cat appearances. Almost always shrieking for no good reason.
•Character in vehicle, glances in rear view mirror, nothing suspicious, character reaches for something (radio), sits back up, eyes go back to rear view mirror, killer’s eyes looking back.
•Character stepping lightly past killer’s body only to have him reach out and grab their ankle
•Any movie in New Orleans takes place during Maudi Gras
•The super-sped up cityscape. This scene requires shots of a moving and setting sun, buildings lighting up, and people zipping around.
•Eight to ten-year-old kids are the best computer hackers on earth and can break into any system.
•Anytime anybody picks up pieces of a broken glass they will ALWAYS cut their finger. They will also always suck their breath in through their teeth and stick the injured finger in their mouth.
•When someone, usually the hero, appears to be shot fatally but a few minutes later, when the camera goes back to them -What’s This!- they aren’t dead after all. They will ALWAYS groan, reach up with both hands and rip open their shirt (nobody cares about buttons in the movies!) revealing the –SHOCKER!- bullet-proof vest (even though the obvious bulge from a bullet-proof vest was never visible under their clothes in the previous scene). They will then pluck the bullet from the indentation, stare at it and drop it to the ground. Occasionally the person will do something that defies all reason; they will REMOVE THE VEST and go after the bad guy. Because, as everyone knows, when a bullet-proof vest takes a hit or two they are rendered useless. Again, I have two words for all bad guys: HEAD SHOT!
•When ever a person is being chased on foot, regardless of the time of year or city, there will be some sort of parade to try and loose your pursuer in.
•Any time a secret tracking device is used so the bad guy can track the good guy, the tracking device will have a blinking red light AND when the camera gets a close up we can hear it beeping. An AUDIBLE secret tracking device? Really? See Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.
•When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
•When the tech guy is given a blurry, extremely pixilated part of an image (i.e. license plate) and they are able to clear it up to crystal clear, easily readable condition
•Making hacking look cool by making the computer’s mainframe look like some sweet virtual world of colorful corridors and cubes you need to click on.
•If it’s a tavern in a western, some grizzled old f*ck will spit tobacco juice in response to our hero entering.
I have a site archiving every movie cliché I could think of/find at:
http://movieclichearchive.wordpress.com/
Please feel free to stop by and if you can think of one I haven’t listed, there is a section at the bottom of each category to leave a suggestion.
Enjoy!
A: There are a stack more that I could name but here are a few.
Regardless of make of gun and when last reloaded, it will run out of ammo only when the villains gun does setting the scene for a martial arts fight.
Minor characters die quickly where major characters will have long drawn out death scenes.
The Ugly nerd is really a hot chick, all she needs is a makeover.
The heroes best friend always turns out to be the traitor.
If there is a gadget that has a long, drawn out description, there will always be a situation requiring it's use.
People only go to the toilet if it's funny.
Q: Can you help me for school
A: 1. B because the nine people who have said something bad to you are obviously saying it to make themselves feel better if u have several more people saying that you are fine.
2. B becuase no matter how you looked in the past you cant change it.
3. B in the present because yet again you cant change the past.
4. Not nessacerally (cant spell) because they may be meaning that you are eating healthly rather than becuase you fat.
5. Yes, rather than my weight.
6. The people who told me that i was average becuase i dont want to be classed as very skinny i hate being called that.
7. A, i would think it was the glasses because i dont really care if somenody thinks i have gained weight.
8. B
9. A, because i had just been ill.
10, B, but i would be mad just sometimes you cant tell peoples sizes.
11. A becuase people change sizes.
12, A
13, A, its obviously the trousers.
14, A
15, A
16, A she has just said it several times.
17. A
18. A
19. B i think she was saying to make herself feel better about her appearance.
20. A, because he wrote the letter coz he got upset about it all.
21. A, becuase if she thought i had plump legs she wudnt have told me the dream.
22. B
There you go :)
Q: some more bizarre facts?
happy reading lol.
*According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK
*The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.
*Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.
*The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.
*The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.
*The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.
*In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'
*Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush
*Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species
*January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!
*You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle
*Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!
*The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.
* You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily
*The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700
*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air
*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people
*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music
*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th
*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
*Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur
*Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
*A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
*If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
*The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact??
*The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)
*A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts
* Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law
* Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
*An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight
*The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
*Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much
*In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)
* Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin").. This is a MYTH
*In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
*Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
*In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
*Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.
*The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
*Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights
*If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
*Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
*Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides
*There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.
*Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
*Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal
*A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer
*Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
*Turtles can breath through their bottoms.
*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
*The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.
*Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.
*When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.
*Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.
*The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard.
*In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000."
*It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).
*The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.
*The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.
*The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France)
*The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million
*Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries
*Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds
*The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first
*During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room
* The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man
*Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.
*When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours
*160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.
*When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY
*On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000
*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
*While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85
*Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries
*A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F
*Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor
*In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it
*A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet
*Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet
*Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch
*The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched
*In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
*A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records]
*The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
*Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal
*The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon.
*In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.
*During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.
*The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign
*The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona.
*The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."
*Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
*Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey
*Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet
*The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change!
*The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
*Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow
*Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston
*The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.
*Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
*Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
*American car horns beep in the tone of F.
*The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
*China has more English speakers than the U.S.
*Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world
*The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too
*You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
*There are no public toilets in Peru.
*Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again
*The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.'
*In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run
*"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end in "mt."
*The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day
*The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging," eveything else was allowed.
*A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout
*The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away
*A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away
*The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body.
*A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe
is called " a lunt "
*The name "Pinocchio" is from Tuscany, Italy and means "pine nut" or "kernel".
*Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy
*It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.
*Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.
*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour & if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
*For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.
*Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.
*Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."
*The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
*The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch)
*More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world
*The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows".
*The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.
*Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.
*Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.
*Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
*Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada
*Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
*Your fingernails grow 4 times faster than your toe nails
*Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second
*A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
*About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you
*The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses
*The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world
*The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
*All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split)
*Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott"
*The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to
exercise naked
*Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
*Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
*The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres
*Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
*You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
*The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
*Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
*The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
*Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
* When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco.
*Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
*The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
*Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
*Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
*In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
*Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
*The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. [usually in our sleep] ~ this is a MYTH
*If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb
*Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!!
*The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
*The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
*The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."
*23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
* There was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.
*The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal."
*A duck's quack doesn't echo, and ... no one knows why.~ MYTH everything echoes. University students have recorded a ducks echo. It is usually so quiet we cannot hear it.
*"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. ??? Maybe if said fast.
*Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired." !!
A: A baby elephant weighs less than a blue whale's tongue
sharks can sense the heartbeat of other fish
donald duck was banned in finland because he doesn't wear pants
the ant is proportionally the strongest animal
cockroaches chew on your eyebrows and lashes