Everytime you visit, you must post a fact!

The 1st September is the meteorological first day of autumn.

 

What's the difference between a pond and a puddle then?

My fact is that "Esposas" is a spanish word that means either "wife" or "handcuffs"

 

I have been changing a landing bulb this morning so...Many Hans make light work.

ok I'll get my coat.

 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented contact lenses in 1508

He described a method of directly altering the corneal power of sight by either submerging ones head in a bowl of water, or by wearing some form of water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye. However, this proved to be sadly impractical like many of his other inventions (e.g. the helicopter), due to the age in which he lived in.

 

In Corpus Christie, Texas, it's illegal to raise alligators in your home.



I'll get my coat........

 

Bet you don't reach the end of this fact.

• Micklegate Bar in York. Witnessed the most notorious moments in the Wars of the Roses, including the spiking of the heads of leaders from both sides of the conflict following the battles of Wakefield (1460) and Towton (1461). Richard, Duke of York, fell at Wakefield, and his seventeen-year-old son, the Earl of Rutland, was slain in its aftermath, along with the Earl of Salisbury. All three allegedly had their heads displayed on Micklegate Bar, until the Yorkist victory at Towton the following year, when they were replaced with the heads of slain Lancastrian leaders.

 

I am 1.7 adults

 

This thread is very enjoyable to read..

 

Kansas produces enough wheat each year to bake 36 billion loaves