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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    This year is the last 'teen' year most people will ever see, the next is 2113.
  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,064 Member
    edited June 2019
    In York, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow within the city walls. Except on a Sunday, of course - that would clearly be silly.

    This law is thought to orginate in the 15th Century. It's possible that more modern laws supersede it...
  • your_future_ex_wife
    your_future_ex_wife Posts: 4,278 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    This year is the last 'teen' year most people will ever see, the next is 2113.

    That’s depressing 🙂
  • RastaLousGirl
    RastaLousGirl Posts: 2,119 Member
    "The founders of Hewlett-Packard flipped a coin to determine whose name would come first in the company."
  • geiznekcm
    geiznekcm Posts: 1,357 Member
    edited June 2019
    Flies jump backward during takeoff.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    Hummingbirds can't walk.
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  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    The Telegraph was the first invention that could reliably deliver information faster than it could be carried.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited June 2019
    Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The guy in the song Fireflies by Owl City gets "a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs." So 1 in 10 fireflies like him. Therefore he's pretty unpopular with fireflies.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    The official weather in New York City was recorded by the zoo keeper in Central Park until the 1970s.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The "For Dummies" book series started with "DOS for Dummies" in 1991. The creator overheard someone in a bookshop ask if there was "a book about DOS for dummies like me". Since then the series has grown to about 2,500 titles with more than 200 million books in print.
  • lauragreenbaum
    lauragreenbaum Posts: 1,017 Member
    When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    lauragreenbaum wrote: »
    When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.

    Different species can't mate.
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,542 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    lauragreenbaum wrote: »
    When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.

    Different species can't mate.
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  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    Pistol Dueling was an Olympic sport.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    TheMrWobbly wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    lauragreenbaum wrote: »
    When two animals from different species mate, their offspring are sterile.

    Different species can't mate.
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    Oops, I was thinking Genus and Family. I knew about mules and zebroids.

  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    No one called it a “photographic” memory until the camera was invented.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    Ligers and Tigons and Pizzlies, oh my.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    This_far wrote: »
    Ligers and Tigons and Pizzlies, oh my.

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  • J_NY_Z
    J_NY_Z Posts: 2,540 Member
    The sun consumes about 4 million tons of material per second as it burns.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    Martin Van Buren spoke Dutch at home and with his family in the White House. He only learned English at school. There were still people speaking ' Jersey Dutch ' around Ramapo and Northern New Jersey in the early 1900s.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    In 2018 Polish was the second most spoken language in Ireland, moving Irish into third place. On a bit of a language kick
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    Ido, also called reformed Esperanto has about 200 speakers world wide. It's a constructed language, designed to be easy to learn. Looks like about 200 people agree
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    2,520 is the smallest number that can be evenly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    2,520 is the smallest number that can be evenly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.

    Met a person once who would search for prime numbers. Crazy.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    This_far wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    2,520 is the smallest number that can be evenly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.

    Met a person once who would search for prime numbers. Crazy.

    There are actually many people that search for large prime numbers.
  • This_far
    This_far Posts: 536 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    This_far wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    2,520 is the smallest number that can be evenly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.

    Met a person once who would search for prime numbers. Crazy.

    There are actually many people that search for large prime numbers.

    Yep, lots of crazies out there
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You can’t write the digits of pi backwards.
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