Think You Know Everything?

LauraMacNCheese
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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.
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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Very interesting!0
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Now I do know everything!0
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The more you know.....
duh duh - duh - duuuh.0 -
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.0 -
We don't have two dollar bills here in Canada any more.0
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A few more for those inquisitive minds....0
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Abstemious, abstentious, facetious, and parecious have all 5 vowels in a row.
Mnemonic is the only word beginning with mn.0 -
I love it.....0
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bump0
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Thank you! This is the kind of stuff I need to know!0
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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!0 -
fun :happy:
A giraffe can lick it's own ears
(and that's not an anagram)
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You got that Speaker one wrong I'm afraid, he gets to speak impartially.0
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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 - clouder0 -
I dispute 28. I sneeze with my eyes open all the time - something I've learned to do driving0
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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 you0 -
Duh.0
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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:0 -
now, after reading this, I know nothing.....0
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