Weird Facts

Catherine2358 · New Member Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 14

Weird Facts

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand

And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain..

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Catherine2358 · New Member Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 14

1.Butterflies taste with their feet.

2.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

3.In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

4.On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

5.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

6.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

7.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

8.It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

9.The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

10.A snail can sleep for three years.

11.No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

12.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

13.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

14.All polar bears are left handed.

15.In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

16.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

17.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

18."Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

19.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

20.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Catherine2358 · New Member Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 14

Daffinitions

ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

HAIRDRESSERS A place where women curl up and dye.

CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people.

CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage.

INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN: Grape with a sunburn.

SECRET: Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON: A load of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE:

The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW: One of the greatest labour saving devices of today.

YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES: Something other people have, similar to my character lines.

Catherine2358 · New Member Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 14

* VERY **INTERESTING** STUFF *

***In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.. Hence we have "the rule of thumb" *

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* **Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden"....and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. *

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* **The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. *

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* **Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S . Treasury*

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* **Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. *

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* **Coca-Cola was originally green.** *

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* **It is impossible to lick your elbow.** *

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* **The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: *

* **Alaska*

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* **The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) *

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* **The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% *

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* **The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $ 16,400 *

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* **The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour: *

* **61,000*

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* **Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. *

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* **The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. *

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* **The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. *

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* **Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: *

* **Spades - King David *

* **Hearts - Charlemagne *

* **Clubs -Alexander, the Great *

* **Diamonds - Julius Caesar*

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* **111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 *

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* **If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. *

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* **Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. *

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* **Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? *

* **A. Their birthplace*

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* **Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? *

* **A. Obsession*

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* **Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?*

* **A. One thousand*

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* **Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? *

* **A. All were invented by women.** *

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* **Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?** *

* **A. Honey*

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* **Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year? *

* **A. Father's Day*

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* **In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. *

* **When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight." *

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* **It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon. *

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* **In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." *

* **It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's" *

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* **Many years ago in England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. *

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* **At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow! *

* **------------------------------------------------------------------------* * **Don't delete this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it. *

* **I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?* * **------------------------------------------------------------------------ * * **YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 200 7 when...** *

* **1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave. *

* **2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. *

* **3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three. *

* **4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you. *

* **5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses. *

* **6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. *

* **7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen *

* **8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it. *

* **10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee. *

* **11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : ) *

* **12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing. *

* **13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message. *

* **14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list. *

* **15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list. *

* **~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~** *

* **NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.** *