CAT scan means "Computerized Axial Tomography.
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In West Virginia there is a valley considered to be the oldest geological formation on the N. A. continent with a river running through it...therefore, the oldest river. What makes this interesting is its name...the NEW River. (I've been there and it doesn't look new!)
Over 80% of pet owners surveyed purchase Christmas and birthday presents for their pets.
Indonesia has nearly 16-thousand islands.
Technically, the United States has only forty-six states. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Massachusetts are commonwealths.
Backpacks are the most common items left on New York buses.
100 million roses will be sold this Valentine's Day--topping boxes of chocolate as the favored token of love.
Next month's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City will showcase the splendor of North America's largest mountain system. The Rocky Mountain chain extends more than 3,000 miles through the United States--stretching from New Mexico to Alaska-and Canada.
A new survey reveals that Americans have $8.7 billion in loose change lying around the house.
More than 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women say they've forgotten their wedding anniversary at least once.
Less than 1% of taxpayers earning $25,000 to $100,000 were audited.
Delaware has a NASCAR facility that could hold nearly 20% of the state's population. Dover Downs International Speedway seats more than 140,000 fans.
The oldest house in Canada, a museum in Sillery, near Quebec, was originally built as a Jesuit residence in 1637.
Grossgmein, a resort village in Austria, built on a rocky base, is constantly shifting because it rests on a bed of salt 1,000 feet thick.
The bumblebee, considering its size, shape, and wingspan, is an aerodynamic misfit which should be unable to fly.
Two white parrots, brought to India by Emperor Tughlak Shah in 1320 lived in his palace at Firozabad during the entire period of his dynasty, a total of 79 years.
The swans in the royal waters of Versailles were required by King Louis XIV to serve an apprenticeship on Swan Island in Paris in the belief that they would learn from older swans the art of majestic behavior.
A highway sign erected in Pleasant Grove, Minn., in 1939 reads, "SLOW! Rattlesnake Crossing."
Chua, a rye that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a breakfast food, covers every field with a dazzling blanket of brilliant yellow, red orange, and purple.
Coconut shells can absorb more impact than most crash helmets.
One of the most useful sites for staying in touch with your government is www.firstgov.gov, a general site created by the federal government that is linked to a wide range of government groups.
According to the US Government people have tried nearly 28,000 different ways to lose weight.
Daddy longlegs are harmless creatures that aren't even true spiders. Moreover, the females are larger than the males. Perhaps they should be called "mommy longlegs" instead.
Twelve Americans have walked on the moon, taken up by six Apollo flights.
Pharoah Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for 77 years, was the father of 119 children - 60 boys and 59 girls. He had a likeness of each of them carved on the front wall of the Temple of Abydos.
The fairy-tale theatre, an open-air theatre near Homburg-Saar, Germany, built for the performance of plays based on fairy tales, is set in a fairy-tale setting, Rabenhorst Forest.
The largest book in the Library of Congress is John James "Audubon's Birds of America", containing many life-sized illustrations of birds. The book is 39.37" (1 meter) high.
Le Mans, the French auto race, was held for the first time on May 26, 1923.
It is commonly believed that the 4 suits in a deck of playing cards -- spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs, derive from French decks of cards. In French decks, the suits represent the four classes: Spades represent nobility, hearts stand for the clergy, diamonds represent merchants, and clubs are peasants. The standard deck of cards had a fifth suit added to it in 1937 but was eventually discarded since not enough people were willing to buy whole new decks.
White Castle was founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas. The name was chosen carefully with “White” signifying purity, and “Castle” signifying strength, stability and permanence. Burgers were 5 cents in 1921 and that price was reduced and increased over the next several years. A big jump occurred in December of 1950 when burgers went from 10 cents to 12. In 1931, White Castle hired a renowned food scientist from a Big Ten university to run tests to determine the nutritional value of White Castle Sliders. One medical student lived on nothing but White Castle burgers and water for 13 weeks. Studies show conclusively that the student maintained good health. The burgers have five holes because they help the patties cook faster and more evenly while eliminating the need to turn them over. During World War II, White Castle sold hot dogs and eggs due to meat rationing. Coke has been the White Castle beverage of choice since 1921.
Why Sharks Circle You Before Attacking. Two great white sharks swimming in the ocean spied survivors of a sunken ship. "Follow me son" the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the mass of people. "First we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing." And they did. "Well done, son! Now we swim around them a few times with all of our fins showing." And they did. "Now we eat everybody." And they did. When they were both gorged, the son asked, "Dad, why didn't we just eat them all at first? Why did we swim around and around them?" His wise father replied, "Because they taste better without the s--t inside!" Now you know... Why Sharks Circle You Before Attacking.
Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but correctly speaking a cobbler is a shoe repairman. A shoemaker is a cordwainer – they also made leather bottles and harnesses.
The device at the intersection of two railroad tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to cross or branch for the other is called a frog.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal is called a tragus – it also aids in capturing sounds that come from behind you.
YouTube, as you know, is the biggest online repository of videos. And they aren’t limited to particular time period. Believe it or not, you can find videos as old as when this thing called video started, on this site. And this is what YouTube Time Machine wants people to access and watch easily. YouTube Time Machine is unique site with a simple and intuitive interface that lets people browse through and watch popular videos from history. I really like its user interface and the way the site lets you jump to a video in any time period between 1860 and 2010. http://yttm.tv/
Magnetic recording was invented in 1898 by Valdemar Poulson of Denmark. Called the “telegraphone,” it was used to record telephone messages by applying magnetic pulses to a steel wire. The patent for the invention of the phonograph was awarded to Emile Berliner in 1887. But the recording format of choice would become the iron oxide-coated tape, a paper version of which was invented in 1927 by Joseph A. O’Neill and a film version of which was invented in 1928 by Fritz Pfleumer. The tape recorder, or “magnetophone”, was invented in 1936, the year that the Volkswagen Beetle was launched. Dutch company Philips introduced the audio cassette in 1963. The video recording machine was invented by the Ampex corporation of California in 1956. The first video recorder, the Ampex VR1000, stood 3 ft 3 in high [or more than 6ft when fully assembled] and weighed as much as a small car: 1,466 lb. The home video recorder was introduced in 1972 by Philips. JVC introduced the VHS system in 1976. Sony introduced the first handheld film camera, the Sony Mavica camcorder, in 1981. The first musical film was made in 1896 by George Thomas. It was a series of still shots depicting the song The Little Lost Child by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern.
For a short time in 1967, the American Typers Association made a new punctuation mark that was a combination of the question mark and an exclamation point called an interrobang. It was rarely used and hasn't been seen since.
IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS! China will no longer publish a phone directory due to chaos. There are so many Wing's and Wong's in THE DIRECTORY, people were always wingin wong numbers. I felt you needed to know this
The first meal eaten on the moon by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was roasted turkey and all the trimmings! 91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Of the 300 million turkeys raised annually, 45 million are consumed at Thanksgiving.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know: The ruffed grouse, before the winter's snows, develops a fringe of horn on each toe, which prevents the bird from sinking into the snow.