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Useless random knowledge. Can never have enough
« on: Dec 28th, 2007, 11:44am » |
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'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'. (Are
you doubting this?)
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. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out
for accuracy, right?)
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
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.' (Yes, admit it, you are going
to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test
this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's
about what my memory span is.)
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. (I know some people that could
do this too.!)
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.
(this does not count for the hunt and peck people.)
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. (Good thing he did
that.)
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.
Now you know more than you did before!
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #1 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 12:05pm » |
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Quote:| Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. |
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Really? Weird. I do notice a lot of old men with really big ears though. I don't know about the eye thing. 
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #2 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 12:15pm » |
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OK...it's official...
the useless random knowledge has now taken over any useful knowledge I may have had.  My brain is full.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #3 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 1:40pm » |
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Left handed people see better under water then right handed people. 
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #4 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 2:22pm » |
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men fart in the tub more than women
 
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #5 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 2:28pm » |
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on Dec 28th, 2007, 2:22pm, Ghost wrote:men fart in the tub more than women
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No they don't. They're just quicker to admit it.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #6 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 4:56pm » |
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on Dec 28th, 2007, 2:22pm, Ghost wrote:men fart in the tub more than women
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I've never known a man who would admit he GOT in the tub.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #7 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 7:09pm » |
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More than three of those are wrong.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #8 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 7:53pm » |
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on Dec 28th, 2007, 2:22pm, Ghost wrote:men fart in the tub more than women
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WOMEN DON'T FART THEY POOOOOP... AND THEY SMELL LIKE DAISIES...
The only thing that makes me wonder is the thing about the gold fish... how would someone measure how long a goldfishes memory is... duh??????????? that is the only thing that I doubted... well that and the one about the snail sleeping for 3 years ... who watched to be sure he didnt get up to pee...?
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #9 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 10:26pm » |
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on Dec 28th, 2007, 7:09pm, Kevin_M wrote:| More than three of those are wrong. |
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Okay, I'll bite...which ones?
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #10 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 10:46pm » |
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Chuck posted these a few months ago and I gave the few I've come across that were different than said here back then.
Quote:| 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand |
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This is only fractionally right. Also, desegregated and reverberated.
Quote:And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
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This is altogether wrong, that word has eight letters, homophony, polyphony, and pollinium have nine.
Quote:There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous':
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. |
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Actually there are a great many, relating to science.
arthropodous:
adjective: of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda
apodous:
adjective: (of snakes and eels) naturally footless
brachiopodous:
adjective: of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda
Quote:| TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out) |
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Rupturewort, a plant. 11 letters, not 10
Additionally, the longest for the middle row of keys is alfalfa, and capitalized, Hadassah.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #11 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 11:13pm » |
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That's impressive, Kev.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #12 on: Dec 28th, 2007, 11:27pm » |
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Kevin NEVER ceases to impress me. 
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #13 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 12:06am » |
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The Qe 2 is also wrong. Snopes claims the fuel capacity for the QE 2 is one million gallons with a range of 7500 miles. If it used 2 gallons per foot, it would need to refuel every 95 miles.
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #14 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 1:36am » |
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on Dec 28th, 2007, 10:46pm, Kevin_M wrote:
arthropodous:
adjective: of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda
apodous:
adjective: (of snakes and eels) naturally footless
brachiopodous:
adjective: of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda
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Arent those Latin, therefore not considered to be English ? 
Anyway, the ears and nose certainly dont continue to grow in size all our lives or else all centenarians would look more like Dumbo than humans
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #15 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 1:40am » |
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on Dec 29th, 2007, 1:36am, Annette wrote:
Arent those Latin, therefore not considered to be English ?
Anyway, the ears and nose certainly dont continue to grow in size all our lives or else all centenarians would look more like Dumbo than humans
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« Reply #16 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 1:43am » |
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My dearest brother, thats not your ears and nose keep growing, its your head shrinking ....
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« Reply #17 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 2:16am » |
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Quote:| The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. |
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It has frozen over many times in my lifetime. Pretty too.
There was a guy in the old Antique Trader that collected air sickness bags. (my contribution)
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Re: Useless random knowledge. Can never have enoug
« Reply #18 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 7:28am » |
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I've got to ask Charlie -- used or new???
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« Reply #19 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 7:28am » |
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on Dec 29th, 2007, 1:36am, Annette wrote:| Arent those Latin, therefore not considered to be English ? |
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horrendous
-- adjective extremely unpleasant or horrifying.
-- DERIVATIVES horrendously adverb.
-- ORIGIN Latin horrendus, from horrere (see HORROR).
stupendous
/styoopendss/
-- adjective extremely impressive.
-- DERIVATIVES stupendously adverb.
-- ORIGIN from Latin stupendus 'to be wondered at'.
tremendous
-- adjective 1 very great in amount, scale, or intensity. 2 informal extremely good or impressive.
-- DERIVATIVES tremendously adverb.
-- ORIGIN Latin tremendus, from tremere 'tremble'.
Oxford's has the zoological word annelidous as English language, also.
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« Reply #20 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 7:55am » |
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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« Reply #21 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 9:07pm » |
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on Dec 29th, 2007, 7:28am, BarbaraD wrote:I've got to ask Charlie -- used or new???
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I never wanted to know. I never wanted to know this loon in any event.
I suppose there are 100s different kinds. I'm waiting for the air sickness bag guidebook to come out. 
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« Reply #22 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 9:43pm » |
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on Dec 29th, 2007, 7:28am, Kevin_M wrote:
horrendous
-- adjective extremely unpleasant or horrifying.
-- DERIVATIVES horrendously adverb.
-- ORIGIN Latin horrendus, from horrere (see HORROR).
stupendous
/styoopendss/
-- adjective extremely impressive.
-- DERIVATIVES stupendously adverb.
-- ORIGIN from Latin stupendus 'to be wondered at'.
tremendous
-- adjective 1 very great in amount, scale, or intensity. 2 informal extremely good or impressive.
-- DERIVATIVES tremendously adverb.
-- ORIGIN Latin tremendus, from tremere 'tremble'.
Oxford's has the zoological word annelidous as English language, also. |
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« Reply #23 on: Dec 29th, 2007, 11:08pm » |
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