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(Message started by: tanner on Apr 18^th, 2006, 12:17am)

Title: real important stuff
Post by tanner on Apr 18^th, 2006, 12:17am

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING!

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (I'll bet
you're going to check this! out.)

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.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

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.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.

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, QE2, 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 everything!

...................tim

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by Drk^Angel on Apr 18^th, 2006, 12:30am

http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

PFDAN...................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by sandie99 on Apr 18^th, 2006, 2:39am

Thanks, Tim! :)

Now I can tell to my friend that she has a memory span of a goldfish without actually instulting her...

Sanna

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by Ueli on Apr 18^th, 2006, 8:02am

Did you know....
Some facts are made up on the spot.

Before Da Vinci's time sheep were not sheared but plucked.

On February 10th, 1865 full moon was at 18:25 GMT

According to the CIA fact-book there are now 1,313,973,713 Chinese, reproducing at a rate of 0.59%. That gives 7.75 million babies per year.
Assume the column walks at a speed of 6 km/h and the spacing between rows is 1 m. You would see 48,000 people per hour or 420 million per year. Another fact exaggerating more than a factor of 100. :(

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."
Typical military research: Inventing the "radar tube" without knowing what it was going to produce. ;;D

Ueli [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by KingOfPain on Apr 18^th, 2006, 9:00am

How about this for real important silly words:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[smiley=bloos.gif]

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by Kevin_M on Apr 18^th, 2006, 9:51am

on 04/18/06 at 00:17:00, tanner wrote:

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill

26 are listed on the back of a $5.00 bill.

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by tanner on Apr 18^th, 2006, 10:40am

Oh Kevin, you must not be getting the new three dimensional virtual tour biils yet ;;D
on 04/18/06 at 09:51:20, Kevin_M wrote:

26 are listed on the back of a $5.00 bill.

...............tim

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by Dragnlance on Apr 18^th, 2006, 10:44am

the "radar tube" in a microwave is now called a Magnatron Tube... ;;D

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by medic1852 on Apr 18^th, 2006, 11:14am

on 04/18/06 at 09:00:13, KingOfPain wrote:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Hey can you spell that......oh nevermind.... [smiley=ohjez.gif]
Rodger

Title: Re: real important stuff
Post by Charlie on Apr 18^th, 2006, 6:24pm

I bought a microwaved hamburger at a Tastee Freeze when I was about 16 I think..... 1962 (exciting huh?)
I had no idea what it was.

Horrible hamburger. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/eatburger.gif

Can you imagine what an oven would have cost then?

Charlie