Lansing Nesties
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Useless Knowledge 1/20/09
- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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Re: Useless Knowledge 1/20/09
At 12:34 on May 6, 1978, there was a lining up of dates and time that will not happen again until the year 2078. On that day the numbers in the time were followed by the numeric sequence of the month day and year. The resulting sequence read 12:34 5/6/78.
Pez was invented in 1927 by Eduard Haas, an Austrian antismoking fanatic who marketed peppermint-flavored Pez as a cigarette substitute. He got the name for the German word for peppermint: pfefferminz.
The hole in a pencil sharpener into which the pencil is placed is called a chuck.
Studies have shown that, as a general rule, men have a tendency to fantasize more about scantily clad women than about those that are naked.
Well, that may actually qualify as useful information.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.