Cracked Egg Trivia

1. They aren't as mean as you think. In fact, rattlesnakes only attack humans when they are provoked. A lot of times the victim has stepped on the snake and didn't even realize. They also give plenty of warning. Not only do they rattle their tails, but they hiss as well. Although sometimes the rattle cancels out the hiss because it's louder. 2. Sometimes they don't have rattles. A rattlesnake without a rattle, what's wrong with that picture? But even if it sounds weird it's true. Young rattlesnakes don't receive their rattle until they are about two weeks old, and even then it is only one section. The baby will grow another section each time it sheds its skin. And adults have been known to lose their rattle. Quick Tip: The second most distinctive physical characteristic of a rattlesnake is its triangular head. So if you don't see a rattle, look to the head for identification. 3. They don't eat very often. Adult rattlesnakes eat about once e...

Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was born on July 25, 1775, near Morristown, New Jersey. Her parents were John Cleves Symmes and Anna Tuthill, who died a year after she was born. Three years after her mother passed away her father decided to take Anne to her maternal grandparent's home on Long Island since he was a soldier in the Continental Army and didn't feel like he could properly take care of a little girl. The War for Independence was going on at that time so in order to get his daughter through New York, which was British-occupied at the time, he dressed up as a British soldier and traveled by horseback with his then four year old. She lived with her grandparents until 1794, and while there she received an excellent education. She went to school at Clinton Academy, and then moved on to live at the Boarding School of Isabella Marshal Graham until she was fifteen years old. Graham was ahead of her time and believed in women's rights to equal education. At the age of...

1. You can't get lead poisoning from lead pencils. Forget everything you've ever heard. It isn't possible because, and you better sit down for this one, lead pencils were never made with lead. They are actually made out of graphite. So why are they called lead pencils? The answer lies in the early 1500s at which time people actually thought that graphite was a form of lead, and they named the pencils accordingly. Of course there is one exception, if the pencil was made before 1978 then you could get lead poisoning from it but not by poking yourself. In 1978 the United States stopped allowing lead to be an ingredient in paint, but the pencils made before then would still have lead in the paint and you could get lead poisoning from sucking on it. 2. Spring is one of many names used to describe this time of year. Nowadays spring is definitely the most frequently used term, but in the old days they called it Lent in some parts of the world. Lent came from the Old English ...

Since some of these insects have been spotted here in America, I thought this was the perfect time to learn about them. So do they live up to the hype? The truth is nothing is really as scary as it seems at first and the Asian "Murder Hornets" are no different. By the way, the first thing that you need to know about these insects is their actual and less terrifying name, the Asian giant hornet or if you wanted to be really fancy the Vespa mandarinia . Their Sting A solitary sting from an Asian giant hornet probably won't kill you unless you have some sort of allergy. The real danger would be if you were stung multiple times which is unlikely unless you disturbed a hive as these bugs aren't normally aggressive unless provoked. In fact, yearly more people die from bee stings. In the US alone there 60 to 80 deaths resulting from reactions to bee stings each year, while in Asia (mostly in Japan) only about 50 people die every year from reactions having to do with stin...

1. The actors did a lot of their own... stunts. I'm sure you all remember that classic scene where Aragorn throws an apple at Pippin's head for complaining about not getting enough food. Viggo Mortensen threw it himself, sixteen times in fact because that's how many times it took to get the scene right. Billy Boyd thinks that Mortensen loved each take, but in his defense who wouldn't. And then we have to talk about the fact that in the scene in Shelob's lair, if you don't remember her she's the big creepy spider that almost killed Frodo, Elijah Wood actually wasn't blinking. Apparently one of his many talents is the ability to stare without blinking for long periods of time. 2. Gandalf hit his head on that ceiling beam for real. Since this isn't really a stunt I couldn't put it in the section above, but Ian McKellen's famous encounter with that ceiling beam at Bilbo's wasn't planned. He hit his head accidentally, but acted ...