Think You Know Everything?

LauraMacNCheese
LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Here are some random & utterly useless facts I thought I'd share :flowerforyou:

1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver,or purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.
14.. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
16. Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end
in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were
named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked
by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with
only the left hand.

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  • mleoni092708
    mleoni092708 Posts: 629 Member
    Very interesting!
  • rammsteinsoldier
    rammsteinsoldier Posts: 1,552 Member
    Now I do know everything!
  • sinistertitan
    sinistertitan Posts: 603 Member
    The more you know.....

    duh duh - duh - duuuh.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

    This one surprises me since rubber bands usually break because they get dry and brittle and refrigerator air is very dry.
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    We don't have two dollar bills here in Canada any more.
  • sinistertitan
    sinistertitan Posts: 603 Member
    A few more for those inquisitive minds....

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  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Abstemious, abstentious, facetious, and parecious have all 5 vowels in a row.

    Mnemonic is the only word beginning with mn.
  • Jferg69
    Jferg69 Posts: 241 Member
    I love it.....
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    bump
  • My1985Freckles
    My1985Freckles Posts: 1,039 Member
    Thank you! This is the kind of stuff I need to know!
  • danibabs
    danibabs Posts: 298 Member
    I thought of this cause of the MGM logo thing...
    The kid jumping off the dock in the logo for Lakeshore Entertainment
    http://www.lakeshoreentertainment.com/

    is Kevin Connolly
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175305/

    I know his cousin.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,375 Member
    9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
    building is an American flag.

    This is false http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp It is not the American Flag it is the flag Canada had before the Maple Leaf, the Red Ensign.
  • firesoforion
    firesoforion Posts: 1,017 Member
    I love trivia like this!! I will say, though, that the Mythbusters people declared the goldfish 3 second memory thing a myth.

    And nice ones, sinsister titan! As for the youtube one, there's also 48 hours of youtube videos uploaded every minute. So you could never, ever watch them all.
  • lizard053
    lizard053 Posts: 2,344 Member
    Fun stuff! Though I know one of the family members of the people who owned that MGM lion. The roar you hear is not his.

    Animal group names:
    Unicorns - blessing
    crows/ravens - murder

    And I'm blanking on some of the other fun ones... Can't beat gaggle of geese for the giggle factor to me!
  • fun :happy:


    A giraffe can lick it's own ears :smile:

    (and that's not an anagram :smile: )
  • You got that Speaker one wrong I'm afraid, he gets to speak impartially.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,375 Member
    Fun stuff! Though I know one of the family members of the people who owned that MGM lion. The roar you hear is not his.

    Animal group names:
    Unicorns - blessing
    crows/ravens - murder

    And I'm blanking on some of the other fun ones... Can't beat gaggle of geese for the giggle factor to me!

    Owls - parliament
    Cats - clouder
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    I dispute 28. I sneeze with my eyes open all the time - something I've learned to do driving :)
  • Wileyjoe
    Wileyjoe Posts: 282
    At first I didn't know anything
    then I worked my way up to knowing something
    now I'm glad to realize I know everything

    thank you
  • DS67ATX
    DS67ATX Posts: 289
    Duh.
  • duharvalgt
    duharvalgt Posts: 319 Member
    random maths fact =) pentation is the 5th hyperoperation of maths and only has two possible inverse functions (penta.root and penta.log)

    an example ; 2 I^3(2) = ^2^2(2)= ^4(2) =(2)^2^2^2^2=65536

    Not sure why anyone would ever need to know this unless it was asked in a quiz :laugh:
  • Wileyjoe
    Wileyjoe Posts: 282
    now, after reading this, I know nothing.....
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