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Thread ID: 117175	2011-04-06 00:00:00	Useless facts.	Cicero (40)	PC World Chat

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1192338	2011-04-06 00:00:00	Useless facts ! 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 . Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants . 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 words racecar and kayak are palindromes . 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 . Cat's urine glows under a black light . 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 . Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite . The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing . A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes . There are more chickens than people in the world . Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey . The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched . " No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple . "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" . Almonds are members of the peach family . There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous . A cat has 32 muscles in each ear . Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur . In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 . A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours . A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds . The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world . In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak . The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz . " The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket . The average person falls asleep in seven minutes . There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball .	Cicero (40)
1192339	2011-04-06 00:11:00	Interesting. Thanks for posting Cicero	QW. (15883)
1192340	2011-04-06 00:54:00	Interesting. Thanks for posting Cicero Glad it is of some interest to you.	Cicero (40)
1192341	2011-04-06 01:20:00	Thanks Cic.	mikebartnz (21)
1192342	2011-04-06 01:20:00	The goldfish memory span of three seconds may be a record for fish, but the shortest memory span for a vertebrate is that of the average teenager. The time taken to respond: 'Uh what?' pips the goldfish by two clear seconds. 'Yes.' would be a worthy challenger for both the shortest sentence and the most dangerous, however, it is my opinion that 'I do.' is a clear winner in both categories. The previous record for the most dangerous sentence was "I wonder what will happen when I press th ........................." Before that took the crown, it was held by "Don't worry, they couldn't hit a barn door at this dis.........." Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1192343	2011-04-06 01:28:00	As you say, useless. But still entertaining. I liked the one about the population of China walking past you. Would there be a lot of babies being carried or toddlers walking past? It seems that they may be growing up as they are walking. An interesting concept. Thanks for all of that.:thanks	Ulsterman (12815)
1192344	2011-04-06 02:21:00	Awesome stuff Cic good comeback Billy, i agree about the teenager bit	Gobe1 (6290)
1192345	2011-04-06 02:48:00	certain of the "facts" aren't. Like the goldfish. scientists have claimed not only that goldfish have a memory span of up to three months, but that they can also tell the time. The fish, previously believed to have a memory of just a few seconds, can distinguish between different times of day and can also be taught to follow a routine, according to research. Noses: Humans’ propensity toward confirmation bias (seeing only evidence that backs up what we already believe) leads us to think that this myth must be true since so many old people have big noses and ears,, but it actually only seems that way. The reason they appear so large is that as we age, our skin produces less collagen and loses elasticity, and when you throw the forces of gravity into the mix, what you get is sagging. Our earlobes and the tips of our noses stretch and droop, just like everything on the body not being held up by bone. Coupled with the fact that the skin all over the face is losing fat and collagen (and thus plumpness and shape), and that the hair is probably thinning and receding, the ears and nose sometimes start to look a lot bigger in comparison with the rest of an elderly person’s features. Then again, sometimes they don’t—depending on genetics and skin care choices, some older people don’t have especially droopy skin, and therefore their ears and nose look perfectly normal throughout their lives. There’s one more growth-related myth that pops up in discussions of our miraculous “growing” ears and nose: the myth that our fingernails and hair keep growing after we’re dead. This myth is also untrue. Once a person is dead, her cells cease functioning—end of story. However, if you look at a body that has been dead awhile, its hair and nails sometimes seem longer because the skin around them starts decomposing and pulling away from the body. Whatever happens to your nose or your ears in old age will be the result of gravity, because this one is 100 percent false. Dynamite: Dynamite is some sort of filler that's been soaked in nitroglycerin, then packed into a tube for use. Nobel used diatomaceous earth as his filler, but you can use just about anything that will soak up liquid.	pctek (84)
1192346	2011-04-06 03:19:00	Now I know what the power of positive thinking is!	Cicero (40)
1192347	2011-04-06 03:31:00	Useless facts ! Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey . from wikipedia wrong 56% is grown in china, America as a nation doesn't make the top 10 . wikipedia . org/wiki/Eggplant#Statistics" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak . Bollocks, the whole point of the speaker is to say who speaks next, what the speaker cannot do is offer any type of opinion they must remain impartial . Starfish haven't got brains . . So what neither have politicians, anyone who watches tv shows that begin with "americas . . . ", shortland street fans .	Morgenmuffel (187)
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