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  • KimWW
    KimWW Posts: 301 Member
    Typewriter is the longest word that uses only the top row of letters on a qwerty keyboard.
  • 1258936
    1258936 Posts: 115 Member
    If you took all the veins out of your body and laid them end to end, you'b be dead.
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    Unlike most creatures, goats have rectangular pupils :huh:
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    stewardess is the longest word type using only one hand.

    Wouldn't it be stewardesses (plural)?

    sorry, total smart *kitten* response.
  • The mass of a beta partical is equal to 1/1837 that of a proton.

    They had us memorize a 1" think book of facts for an Energy Bowl Competition in 9th grade. That is the one fact I have never been able to forget.

    It was also 20 years ago.
  • daump
    daump Posts: 4 Member
    About 82% of the population is right-side dominant (right handed).
    When confronted with a bright light, the reflex is to shield the dominant eye.
    Which means, that for 82% of the population, the right nostril is the place where the sun don't shine!

    Don't you just LOVE statistics!
  • gil_u
    gil_u Posts: 165 Member
    It's impossible to lick your own elbow (the outside bit) :smokin:



    /Sits back and watches people try

    False. I can do this.

    prove it
  • LiliWray
    LiliWray Posts: 101 Member
    Wile E. Coyote once actually caught the roadrunner, then held up a sign asking the viewers, "Okay guys, I caught him. What now?"
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    The Battle of New Orleans, the most significant battle of the War of 1812, was actually fought 2 weeks after the peace treaty ending the war had been signed.
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    The gold ball on top of a flag pole is called a truk. Its supposed to have three items in it, a match, a bullet and a penny. The match is so you can burn the flag if it touches the ground, a bullet so you can defend the flag and the penny signafies this country will never go broke.
  • bikermike5094
    bikermike5094 Posts: 1,752 Member
    4/3 people cant do fractions correctly.
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing up .
  • Cyngen
    Cyngen Posts: 557 Member
    A flock of crows is called a murder.
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    German researchers say the average intercourse lasts 2 minutes, 50 seconds, yet women perceive it as lasting 5 minutes, 30 seconds.
  • DisneyAddictRW
    DisneyAddictRW Posts: 800 Member
    In the movie The Beauty and the Beast Gaston eats 5 dozen eggs a day.
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    The wildabeast scene in the Lion King took 3 years to animate. :noway:
  • DisneyAddictRW
    DisneyAddictRW Posts: 800 Member
    France made Goofy their Official Olympic Mascot in 1980.
  • Cyngen
    Cyngen Posts: 557 Member
    The striped mittenfish, a deepwater species recently discovered in the Java Sea, can change its sex at will by turning its entire body inside out.
  • bonjour24
    bonjour24 Posts: 1,119 Member
    the suns rays that you can see shining down through the clouds are called 'crespicular rays'.
  • Cyngen
    Cyngen Posts: 557 Member
    If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
  • saschka7
    saschka7 Posts: 577 Member
    The Vimy Memorial in France (commemorating Canada's contribution and sacrifice at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in France during WWI) is designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. France granted the land on which the memorial stands to Canada, to be held in perpetuity.
  • saschka7
    saschka7 Posts: 577 Member
    Petrichor= the smell of rain on dry earth or stones.
  • Icelandic_Saga
    Icelandic_Saga Posts: 2,926 Member
    In Charleston south Carolina the fire department is legally allowed to blow up your house.
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    The largest stick of incense ever created was nearly 15 feet long and 6 inches in diameter.
  • That Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) tried out for the part of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. When he didn't get it he talked his friend, Mark Hamill, into trying out for the part.
  • BigBrewski
    BigBrewski Posts: 922 Member
    If you took all the veins out of your body and laid them end to end, you'b be dead.

    LOL Truth!!!!
  • Some pretty upsetting facts I learned the other day!

    1. The band Creed has sold more albums in the U.S. then Jimi Hendrix.

    &

    2. Led Zeppelin has never had a #1 single, Rhianna has had 10.

    Sad :(
  • deb62pink
    deb62pink Posts: 84 Member
    A Beavers home is called a lodge.....
  • Melroxsox
    Melroxsox Posts: 1,040 Member
    Red shirts must die! lol.....
  • MrsWilsoncroft
    MrsWilsoncroft Posts: 968 Member
    You cannot lick your elbow lol