Crap About The Earth & The Universe


	Crap About The Earth & The Universe

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5-26-2007 9:18 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06317de7-c851-422f-ae85-b5f4d50d2d20/7310B635-0904-4F72-B199-96F2D23CF272/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm" href="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mindlesscrap.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN>
						<B>The </B>hottest recorded temperature occurred September 13, 
						1222, when it registered 136 Fahrenheit  in Libya.  
						The coldest was in Antarctica on August 24, 1960 when it 
						was 127 below zero Fahrenheit.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" height="28"><SPAN>
						<B>The</B> moon weighs 81 billion tons.</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN><B>For </B>the first 
						two billion years of its existence, the earth had no 
						life on it whatsoever.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN><B>The</B> first 
						pulsar, discovered in 1967, never varies in its timing 
						by even as much as a hundred-millionth of a second.  
						Its pulse is registered every 1.33730109 seconds.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN><B>The</B> discovery 
						of Neptune was announced in 1846.  But when 
						astronomers checked, they found the record of an 
						observation of the planet as far back as 1795 by 
						astronomers who, believing it to be a star, recorded the 
						position routinely.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN><B>According</B> to 
						scientists, gold is believed to also exist on Mercury, Venus 
						and Mars.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN><B>The
                          </B>earth's rotation around the sun covers 585,000,000
                          miles.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" height="28"><SPAN><B>Only</B>
about 3,000 stars are visible to the naked eye.</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mindlesscrap.com/trivia/universe.htm"><SPAN><B>There</B>
have been no recorded instances of anybody being
killed by a meteorite.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7310B635-0904-4F72-B199-96F2D23CF272/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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