Comments on: Doing a Give Away

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:23:34 +0000

Apparently a new eruption is i need to replenish the island.

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:22:33 +0000

Cool.

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:22:09 +0000

Is that true? Because wow, that’s totally awesome if so.

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:21:31 +0000

I did not know that.

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:20:14 +0000

Awesome!

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:20:00 +0000

very cool.

By: Di Francis

Di Francis — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:19:24 +0000

I love it. That’s priceless.

By: Melz Reupenny

Melz Reupenny — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:52:58 +0000

I thought about what was the most common thing in everyday use but have no knowledge how it originated. This is what I found courtesy of wiki.answers.com:
According to Roman legend, soap was named after Mount Sapo, an ancient site of animal sacrifices. After an animal sacrifice, rain would wash the animal fat and ash that collected under the ceremonial altars down the slopes to the banks of the Tiber River. Women washing clothes in the river noticed that if they washed their clothes in certain parts of the river after a heavy rain their clothes were much cleaner. Thus the emergence of the first soap – or at least the first use of soap.

By: L.S. Taylor

L.S. Taylor — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:56:21 +0000

The Western Black Beaver, or “black biter” as it is more commonly known, regularly inhabits the air vents of apartment buildings along the Pacific coast of the northwest United States and southwest Canada. Stockpiling debris and dust motes to catch its prey, its typical diet is spiders, silverfish, and small rodents. If encountered, do not approach, as the creatures are habitually defensive of their habitat, and true to their nickname, will bite.

By: Van P.

Van P. — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:46:43 +0000

Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp. Brine shrimp, to be exact. Rich swarms of tiny brine shrimp inhabit salty lakes in both of the world’s hemispheres, and it is to these lakes that flocks of flamingos travel in search of their meals. They scoop up shrimp in their strangely curved beaks, which they hold upside down in order to strain our mud and water. Then they swallow the shrimp.

It is a nutritious natural chemical, or organic compound, called beta carotene in the brine shrimp that turns the flamingos’ feathers pink. Beta carotene is the same chemical that makes carrots orange—and it’s very important because it is a building block that the bodies of humans, birds and animals use to manufacture Vitamin