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[Reddhott]

The amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface is 6,000 times the amount of energy used by all human beings worldwide. The total amount of fossil fuel used by humans since the start of civilization is equivalent to less than 30 days of sunshine.

 

[Lynzy]

Only female mosquitoes will bite you.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Valentine’s Day may have been named after Valentine of Terni, a priest who married Roman soldiers against orders from Claudius II. He was arrested and killed on February 14 in the year 269. It is said that an almond tree near his grave burst with pink flowers and all the birds chose mates, hence the term “love birds.”

 

[Lynzy]

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”~~~Winston Churchill

 

[rbeckys8]

help shovel out your neighbor

 

[Lynzy]

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”~~~John Keats

 

[liblue1]

Today would have been Elvis's 79 Birthday........

 

[Lynzy]

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”~~~Margaret Atwood

 

[liblue1]

Mother Gladys bought Elvis his first guitar at age 12 (1947)

 

[Lynzy]

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”~~~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Valentine’s Day may have been named after the priest Valentine of Rome, who refused to follow Claudius II’s ban on Christianity. While he was imprisoned, children would pass him notes through the jail window. Before he was killed on February 14, he wrote one last note to the jailer’s daughter with whom he had fallen in love and signed it “From Your Valentine.”

 

[Reddhott]

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

According to Welsh tradition, a child born on Valentine’s Day would have many lovers. A calf born on Valentine’s Day, however, would be of no use for breeding purposes. If hens were to hatch eggs on Valentine’s Day, they would all turn out rotten.

 

[liblue1]

Elvis died with about $5 million in his bank account.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Famous people born on Valentine’s Day include John Barrymore (1882), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Jack Benny (1894), Carl Bernstein (1944), Renée Fleming (1959), and Florence Henderson (1934).

 

[Lynzy]

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”~~~John Muir

 

[DocTonyNYC]

On Valentine’s Day, James Cook was killed by natives in Hawaii (1779), Oregon and Arizona were admitted to the Union (1859 and 1912, respectively), James Polk became the first president photographed while in office (1848), UPS (United Parcel Service) was formed (1919), the League of Women Voters was established (1920), Aretha Franklin recorded “Respect” (1967), Richard Nixon installed a secret taping system in the White House (1971), the U.S. performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site (1976), and Voyager I took a picture of the entire solar system (1990).

 

[liblue1]

In 2005, Forbes magazine named Presley, for the fifth straight year, the top-earning deceased celebrity, grossing US$45 million for the Presley estate during the preceding year. In mid-2006, top place was taken by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain after the sale of his song catalogue, but Presley reclaimed the top spot in 2007.

 

[Lynzy]

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

Teachers receive the most Valentine’s cards, followed by children, mothers, and wives. Children between the ages of 6-10 exchange more than 650 million Valentine cards a year.