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General Category => General Board => Forum Games => Topic started by: Ford on July 15, 2010, 09:07:25 AM
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Rules are simple:
Put down any useless information you may know
Appropriate
No duplicates
Have Fun
I'll start::
Did you know Apollo 11 had only twenty seconds of fuel left when it landed?
Robert E Lee wore size 4 1/2 shoes.
Have fun :)
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Did you know an armadillo can walk under water.
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Did you know the tip of a shoelace is called an aglet
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Did you know there are approximately 1.6 cockroaches in every jar of peanut butter?
Did you know one of the ingredients of gelatin is animal hoof?
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Did you know there are approximately 1.6 cockroaches in every jar of peanut butter?
gross...
Maine is the only state whose name is only one syllable
The most recent year that could be written upside down and right side up and appear the same was 1961. The next year it will happen is 6009.
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The man that invented the Eveready battery gave away the company so that he could play with his model trains. lol thats hilarious.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel , Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself :-X , American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. lol
now THATS useless!
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Lets see..
The tip of a shoe is called the toe box
penuts are a ingrediant in dynamite
a penny costs 1.5 cents to make
and a nickle has 112 ridges
USELESS FOR THE WIN :yesyes: :yesyes:
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*The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.*
*People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because in medieval times people thought it was your body trying to push out an evil spirit/soul.*
*If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.*
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geez nobody now i want to be rude and let out the sneeze instead of holding it in lol anyway:
-40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
-Every person has a unique tongue print
-The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes
-315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled
-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily :-\
-Most lipstick contains fish scales
-Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice
-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
-If one places a tiny amount of soda on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death.wouldnt try it. :-\
-Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves
-The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white lol
-Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.
-By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand
-Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with
-Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest. he didnt look like himself?????
-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
-Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." For that matter, Sherlock Holmes never existed in the first place. But the address where he supposedly lived, 221B Baker Street, still gets a lot of fan mail. I am told that there is a desk there that has the sign "Secretary to Mr. Holmes".
-An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing
-Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways
-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.how ironic lol
-Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it
-Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
-if you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going 106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you
-Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you
-Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush(uh oh)
-No piece of paper can be folded in half consecutively more than 7 times
-1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. (I have!)
-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television(as if you burn any)
-Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning
-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin :P
-Walt Disney was afraid of mice
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
-There are more chickens than people in the world
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-"Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only English words that end in the letters "mt."
-The almond is a member of the peach family
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (As noted by a reader: "The reason a goldfish swims back and forth and back and forth across the fish bowl all day long everyday is because by the time it gets to one side of the bowl it forgets what's on the other side of the bowl. Every trip is a new adventure! (Hey, I wonder what's over there!.... Hey! I wonder what's over THERE!)"
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
-its impossible to stick your elbow in your ear
-More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call
-Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist
-On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
-this is the most useless thread in bfm lololololol :siderofl:
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oh. wow. thats a lot.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil
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Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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Did you know that the very first message in an email was:
qwertyuiop
And did you also know that that's the first letters of the first letter-line on your keyboard?
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did you know i am actually more than awesome? -not a useless fact sorry
Right then..
did you know that there is only 4 Broadway theatres on Broadway itself?
a theatre is only classed as a Broadway theatre if it has over 499 seats, any less an it is an off Broadway..even if it is on Broadway itself.
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-The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
-The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
-A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
-More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
-Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
-The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
-The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
-TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
-If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
-The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
-A snail can sleep for 3 years.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
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-An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing
Yeah, Bellingham would do that.
They are a bit strange, being right next to Canada and all :-P
But hey, non-Aussies consider Vegemite strange, so...
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Duck's quacks don't echo.
'Jaws' is the most common name for goldfish.
too tired to post more LOL! :LOL:
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The most common street name in the United States is Second Street.
(Avenue, Blvd, Road, etc. doesn't matter)
Why? Because cities commonly call the first street "Main Street." Some don't, which leads to 2nd St. being more common.
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-The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
I imagine it being like this:
England: Yeah.... no... we're not going to do that...
Zanzibar: (Playfully) Then this can only mean one thing.... War!
England: Okay, sure....
Zanzibar: -drops telephone and it breaks-
England: Fine, I don't want to talk to you either. -click-
Zanzibar: -finally finds a replacement and calls England back- Just kidding.
England: Awwh man... v.v
-A snail can sleep for 3 years.
I wish I could sleep for 3 years... >.>
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Here's another useless piece of information:
About 10% of "facts" in this thread are anything but.
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About 10% of the "facts" in this thread are anything but.
Too true...so many of these funny 'facts' are urban legends...e.g. the impossibility of sneezing with your eyes open. bilge. I've done it a fair few times...it hurts, but it's possible.
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-"101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only feature-length Disney animated movies in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.
wow wierd
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I smell thread revival.
You may think a penny has a 50% chance of landing heads up and 50% tails. But in reality the head's side is BAAAARREEELY heavier, meaning technically......its more likely to land tails.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots (Now THATS a knee slapper.)
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
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63% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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did you know this thred is in the forum games
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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
Ahhhhhh yes... "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula" (I added the accents you lack in your standard "Anglo keyboard" :P ). Well, you have to admit we like long names huh...
More useless information:
México is a "nickname" for Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United States of Mexico). And yes, it was copied from USA...
México derives from the name of the prehispanic culture that ruled over Mexican territory: Mexicas, aka Aztecs.
Even though Spanish has its origins in Spain (particularly Castilla, Spanish is aka Castellano), it is considered that Spain's Spanish is the 2nd most corrupted form of the language (after Argentina). México and Venezuela have the "best" form of Spanish.
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Some 'facts' posted here that aren't true...
If you drop a penny off of the Empire State Building, it will be going 106 miles per hour (terminal velocity) when it reaches the ground. Something moving this fast may actually cause head injuries if it lands on you
Mythbusters tested this...a penny's terminal velocity is 65mph (105kph) and its mass is too low to do any damage either to asphalt or a crash dummy. Even fired out of a rifle it didn't break the asphalt. Also, at the Empire State Building, there are updrafts that would prevent the penny from falling very far at all, and the tiers below the top would catch it anyway.
No piece of paper can be folded in half consecutively more than 7 times
In 2001, a fifteen-year-old American schoolgirl proved that the number of folds of a piece of paper is dependent upon its width, length and thickness. If you fold it in one direction only, the formula is:
L = πt/6 (2n + 4)(2n -1)
L is length, t is thickness, n is number of folds. If you're folding in alternate directions, then the formula is...
W = πt2(3/2)(n-1)
W is width, t is thickness, n is number of folds.
To prove this, she folded a 1200 metre piece of toilet paper twelve times in one direction. She also folded a very thin piece of gold foil in alternate directions twelve times.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Research has shown that goldfish have memories that can last at least three months. They have been trained to know that feed comes at a particular time of day, how to complete obstacle courses, and to recognise shapes and colours.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
What about 'No'?. "Are you ready yet?". "No".
Polar bears are left-handed.
There's no evidence to support this fact at all. It could be true, but it's very doubtful.
Duck's quacks don't echo.
Again, Mythbusters tested this and found that it's very hard to hear the echo because of their very similar waveforms. Human ears cannot hear a quack's echo because it is 'swallowed' by the quack. But it is there.
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I just got these from some random site, so I have no idea whether they are true or not.
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I just got these from some random site, so I have no idea whether they are true or not.
Always be careful...if you've ever watched the BBC show called QI (Quite Interesting) then you'll realise that just about everything you know is wrong. QI is not suitable for children.
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Mind, QI is sometimes wrong too:
"What are atoms mostly made of? Nothing!"
Rubbish.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist
im pretty sure your not supposed to repeat on this thread, especially yourself lol
Did you know that it took me 10mins to see the same fact?
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist
im pretty sure your not supposed to repeat on this thread, especially yourself lol
Did you know that it took me 10mins to see the same fact?
Did you know that I noticed this also, but Xtr3me beat me to the post because I read everything in between?
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Did you know that neither animals on Australia's Coat of Arms can walk backwards, which means that, faced with a cliff both in front and to their sides, neither the Kangaroo nor the Emu are going to have a good time
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Mind, QI is sometimes wrong too
Nothing human is infallible...except me.
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Nothing human is infallible...except me.
Too true...so many of these funny 'facts' are urban legends...e.g. the impossibility of sneezing with your eyes open. bilge. I've done it a fair few times...it hurts, but it's possible.
Wait, is that an uncapitalised word at the beginning of a sentence?
Bad luck: you have failed the infallibility test.
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Any research in the humanities is pretty useless *innocent* Granted, some of it is really interesting, but xD
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this is made up but pretty funny
for every noodle you eat, to burn of the callories you have to
Sprint as fast as you can
while carrying a fridge
for 14 hours non spot
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Nothing human is infallible...except me.
Too true...so many of these funny 'facts' are urban legends...e.g. the impossibility of sneezing with your eyes open. bilge. I've done it a fair few times...it hurts, but it's possible.
Wait, is that an uncapitalised word at the beginning of a sentence?
Bad luck: you have failed the infallibility test.
What if he wanted that word to be uncapitalised? Then, is he not beyond a normal human's reach in perfection?
I mean, doing everything good, correct and accurate is what normal people think of perfect, but what about when you know you are wrong, yet doing it nevertheless? Doesn't that require having complete knowledge and then go against it?
Any research in the humanities is pretty useless *innocent* Granted, some of it is really interesting, but xD
JAJAJA (I laugh in Spanish). We are men sharing the same thought...
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Any research in the humanities is pretty useless *innocent* Granted, some of it is really interesting, but xD
How? I sincerely hope you're not being serious...
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-its impossible to stick your elbow in your ear
Half of you just tried to do this.
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Any research in the humanities is pretty useless *innocent* Granted, some of it is really interesting, but xD
How? I sincerely hope you're not being serious...
It depends on how you define useful. Classics students I know argue that you need to know about where you have been to understand where you should go next, and that the history of Greek society is as relevant today as it was then. Students of Art say that high art advances our understanding of ourselves by reading what the painting says about the artist. Is not a Renaissance sculpture just a reflection of our ideal form? Are not the tales of the great battles of the Middle Ages full of profound tips on military strategy? Does not a good book take you beyond the realm of the physical into a place where no-one else can touch? Is it not vital to enjoy life rather than merely to quanitfy it?
I tell them that's tosh.
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the history of Greek society is as relevant today as it is now.
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Note I said humanities, not social "sciences" :P And I mean useful as being more than just being something that's enjoyable and interesting. The uses that one would consider to come from the humanities come out through the social science aspects of them. I greatly enjoy a lot of things in areas such as philosophy and so on, but that doesn't mean they're actually useful past that enjoyment and engagement of the mind.
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If everything had to be 'useful' in that sense, then I guess you could throw out Music, Art, Literature, Film, Conversation...Halo...
There are other ways something can be 'useful', as I'm sure you know.
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Of course he knows, Marty, because he said so.
"Not useful past that enjoyment and engagment of the mind."
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the history of Greek society is as relevant today as it was then.
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What's so funny?
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Of course he knows, Marty, because he said so.
"Not useful past that enjoyment and engagment of the mind."
I guess...I get riled up some times...a lot...OK, I don't "get" riled up...
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If its for kids, then why do you watch it MArty :winkgrin:
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If its for kids, then why do you watch it MArty :winkgrin:
Because he's all grown up and sensible.
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I believe this thread is about useless information, so let me proceed:
- Even though there is a wide variety of food a quesadilla can contain, the word quesadilla refers to cheese inside a tortilla and nothing more
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Any research in the humanities is pretty useless *innocent* Granted, some of it is really interesting, but xD
How? I sincerely hope you're not being serious...
It depends on how you define useful. Classics students I know argue that you need to know about where you have been to understand where you should go next, and that the history of Greek society is as relevant today as it was then. Students of Art say that high art advances our understanding of ourselves by reading what the painting says about the artist. Is not a Renaissance sculpture just a reflection of our ideal form? Are not the tales of the great battles of the Middle Ages full of profound tips on military strategy? Does not a good book take you beyond the realm of the physical into a place where no-one else can touch? Is it not vital to enjoy life rather than merely to quanitfy it?
I tell them that's tosh.
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the history of Greek society is as relevant today as it is now.
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the history of Greek society is as relevant today as it was then.
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What's so funny?
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LIES!!!!!!!
And I'm still laughing :siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl:
However, On topic, Old El Paso produces taco shells with flat bottoms, so that they don't fall over when you put them down. However, if you try to eat them they fall to pieces.
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lol not sure if this has been said but.....
type writer is the only word that you can spell on the top row of keys :P
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lol not sure if this has been said but.....
type writer is the only word that you can spell on the top row of keys :P
"To", "You", "Wet", "Pot" etc etc.
I think you meant typewriter is the LONGEST word, not the only word.
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yeah longets word sorry :P i fail :embarrassing:
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yeah longets* word sorry :P i fail :embarrassing:
Fail again. :P
40 is the only number in English that, when you write it, has its letters in alphabetical order. 1, meanwhile, is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
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The Lethal Injection needle is sterilised before it is used...
More people in the world use blue toothbrushes than red ones...
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English Dictionary.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a railway station on the island of Anglesey in Wales.
The protein, "Titin". Has the longest chemical name consisting of 189,819 letters.
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a railway station on the island of Anglesey in Wales.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is a place in New Zealand. I have a picture of the (rather long) sign somewhere.
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And typewriter isn't the longest word you can type with the top letters, it is rupturewort, which sounds like a character in Harry Potter, but is not.
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And typewriter isn't the longest word you can type with the top letters, it is rupturewort, which sounds like a character in Harry Potter, but is not.
Does it count if it's a proper noun, as that's the name of the species of plant?
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And typewriter isn't the longest word you can type with the top letters, it is rupturewort, which sounds like a character in Harry Potter, but is not.
Does it count if it's a proper noun, as that's the name of the species of plant?
Only if you count proper nouns as words ;D
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You know what I mean...I wouldn't call 'Marty' a word, just like 'Christopher' or 'Sophie'. They're names to me, not 'words'. Maybe that's just my brain going even more screwy.
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1+1=2
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1+1=2
1+1=10
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No, 1+1=11
Obviously.
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No, 1+1=11
Obviously.
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Well it all depends on how you define the operation "+" and what base you are working in.
In modular arithmetic, base 2, 1+1=0. So there.
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Addition is commutative!
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So, like, I can catch addition in the same way I can catch a cold? Or the flu?
Math is evil! And infectious!!
:P
(I'm kidding of course... *looks at Jim*)
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It's 1+1=?
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ME: If you is bigger than you face it's a sign of low intelligence.
YOU: Really? *Put you hand on your face*
ME: *WHAM. I hit you in the face :LOL:*
YOU: does that mean I have low intelligence?
ME: Hmm, Lets try again...
ROFL. I know... if you've read DoAWK...