Newfoundland - Who Knew?

I'm sure you know some folk that you can impress with all this great knowledge!
If you're a Newfie, you should be proud! If you aren't a Newfie..... I bet you wish you were!
Here are a few tidbits of information that you may never have known before:
WE WERE . . . .
The first province to respond to Titanic distress signal.
But not a province yet. The first to vaccinate for smallpox.
The first to host a transatlantic flight. Alcock and Brown in June,1919
The first to have wireless communication in the world. Marconi from Signal Hill to England Dec 12, 1901.

The first place to discover proof of the theory of continental drift. Location Trout River.

WE HAVE . . . The oldest street in North America.

The oldest English speaking city in North America. Formally established as a community in 1583 by Humphry Gilbert.

The oldest rock in the world. A very rare exposed layer of the earth's mantle over 500 million years old.

The oldest continuous sporting event (Regatta Day rules! ) This event dates back to 1816 and possibly back to the 1700's.

The largest university in Atlantic Canada. With it's enrollement of 17,000 students, it is only slightly smaller than the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon which has 18,600 students.

The most pubs per square foot in Canada (George Street) Good night life for some.
The longest running radio program in North America. Fisherman's broadcast.
Caught the world's largest invertebrate (giant squid)

WE ARE. . . .

~ the funniest people in Canada (ask anybody)

~ the sexiest people in Canada (MacLean's magazine survey)

~ the only Province that has four identifiable flags

~ the only Province able to land the space shuttle (Stephenville and Gander)

~ the most giving people in Canada (Stats Canada)

~ the most sexually active people in all of Canada (what else are we gonna do!!)
A NEWFOUNDLANDER. . . . .

~ built the world's first artificial ice arena

~ invented the gas mask

~ was once governor of northern Rhodesia

~ was with Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg


WE ARE THE ONLY PROVINCE TO HAVE IT'S OWN. . . . .

~ encyclopaedia

~ dictionary

~ pony

~ dogs

~ cultural publication
By reading this, you now know more about Newfoundland than.... well, almost everyone!
Send this along to all your friends and let them know what a great place the Rock really is!
If you are a proud Newfie.... you will definitely send this along to others....
and if you are not a Newfie.... you probably wish you were!

I have know it all along, he was right!!!

I  just found this, even though it is a few years old. It is proof!!

Douglas Adams was right

Meaning of universe is 42

By Nick Farrell

Fri Jul 06 2007, 09:24

THE WRITER OF the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams has turned out to have been correct when he guessed that the answer to life the universe and everything was 42.

Well at least he was when the number is applied to the mass of the Milky Way galaxy.

Boffins have spent ages in deep thought and worked out that our galaxy weighs three times 10 to the power of 42 kilograms - a number written as 3 followed by 42 zeroes.

This number becomes very important to boffins who what to calculate such important concepts such as the nature of dark matter, what happens to light when it passes down the centre of two black holes or how many angels can be fitted on the head of a pin.

According to AP, Professor Freeman, an astrophysicist with Mt Stromlo Observatory and the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Canberra presented his findings to Astronomical Society of Australia's annual meeting in Sydney.

Of course it does not supply the very important 'question' to the answer, which the boffins are fairly sure is not "how many roads must a man walk down?" or "what do you get when you multiple seven by nine?"

The news would have amused Adams. When asked if he chose the number 42 because of some occult cabbalistic significance, Adams said "no it was just a gag."

A few facts

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years. 

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases. 

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F 

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. 

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density

The University of Alaska spans four time zones

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun

The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent 

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines. 

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy 

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off 

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

thx L

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