Monday, March 14, 2011

300


Besides being a really cool Gerard Butler movie about the Spartan army, this happens to be my 300th post.

1. Six year olds laugh an average of 300 times a day

2. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206, because some fuse together naturally.

3. 300 BC- Seleucus founds the city of Antioch, some 20 miles up the Orontes River, naming it after his father.

4. 300 AD-The magnetic compass for navigation is invented in China (approximate date)

5. The Roman Numeral for 300 is CCC

6. 300 m/s is the speed of the sound in the air.

7. 300 is the largest possible score in bowling

8. There were 300 celery glasses on the Titanic. A celery glass??

9. 300 steel workers built the Eiffel Tower and it stands 300 meters tall

10. A hedgehogs heart beats 300 times per minute

3 comments:

Probst Pride said...

going to have to steal this post when I hit 300! love it!

Anonymous said...

Congrats on sticking with it this long. I love it when you post (especially when there are pictures included). But I even enjoy the non picture posts. Love ya, Mom aka Gma

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't it be crazy if you got 300 posts on this? :D And what the hey dog is a celery glass? Jessica Van Winkle