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Sayeret
07-22-2004, 02:54 PM
* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
* If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language
* The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
* The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
* A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
* Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
* All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
* 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".
* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
* Almonds are members of the peach family.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
* The youngest pope was 11 years old.
* The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
* A snail can sleep for 3 years.
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
* China has more English speakers than the United States.
* 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.
* Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
* 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?
* When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
* Cat's urine glows under a black light.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
* 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.
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
* If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
* Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
* In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* 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.
* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
* First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
* Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
* 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.
* 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 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 national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
* Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
* 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.
* Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
* The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
* When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
* 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.
* Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
* John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
* Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
* 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.
* A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
* On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
* There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

MVSpartan117
07-22-2004, 02:59 PM
what?!

* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Herrmannek
07-22-2004, 03:26 PM
* Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Black light rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

Chet Mystery
07-22-2004, 03:32 PM
* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill

I only count 26 states...

bloddyaxe
07-22-2004, 04:40 PM
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

So "E" and "A" are the same letter in english... very fascinating...
**-***

fec* I just remembered how you people spell Europe...

but still, people talk about a Eurasian continent... how do you account for that...

kinghk
07-22-2004, 05:10 PM
* The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.

* When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.



Odd.

Herrmannek
07-22-2004, 05:12 PM
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

So "E" and "A" are the same letter in english... very fascinating...
**-***

fec* I just remembered how you people spell Europe...

but still, people talk about a Eurasian continent... how do you account for that...
Full name:

South America and North America, neither starts and ends the same

hank
07-22-2004, 05:22 PM
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The continents are:

Asia

Europe

Australia

Africa

Antarctica

North America?

South America?

I dont' get it


* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

http://www.canlaw.com/rights/thumbrul.htm

From this article:


Because many feminist activists and researchers have so great a stake in exaggerating the problem and so little compunction in doing so, objective information on battery is very hard to come by. The Super Bowl story was a bald untruth from the start. The "rule of thumb" story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of winning converts to their angry creed.


The "rule of thumb," however, turns out to be an excellent example of what may be called a feminist fiction. [51] It is not to be found in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only indifferently enforced.

That the phrase did not even originate in legal practice could have been ascertained by any fact-checker who took the trouble to look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes that the term has been used metaphorically for at least three hundred years to refer to any method of measurement or technique of estimation derived from experience rather than science.

Don't believe everything you read. I had a Law Professor who told me about this commonly believed falsehood so I had seen this one before.

Next.

hank

hank
07-22-2004, 05:32 PM
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.


Ain't this fun? Where did you find this? I know its not your fault that so many of these are wrong, but I'd like to see where it came from.

Oddly enough, I have heard that Linda Cohn [from ESPN] has six toes on one foot. I have no idea if it is true.

Check this out:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmtoes.htm


This claim originated with photographer Joseph Jasgur, who in March 1946 (as a favor to a friend who ran a modeling agency) took some test shots of a nineteen-year-old model named Norma Jean Dougherty. Young Norma Jean, of course, would later become one of the twentieth century's most famous women under the name Marilyn Monroe.

Most of Jasgur's pictures of a teenaged Marilyn Monroe remained unpublished for over forty years, until he finally assembled them for a book entitled The Birth of Marilyn: The Lost Photographs of Norma Jean. It was only then, four decades after the fact, that Jasgur noticed his photographic work revealed a previously undisclosed physical feature of the young Marilyn: she had an extra toe on her left foot. As the text of his book explained:


It wasn't until 41 years later when Joseph Jasgur was alone in his darkroom making prints of that day's excursion that he noticed something odd about Normal Jean's left foot. She had six toes. A surprising discovery, he thought, but not earth-shaking. He had heard rumours of plastic surgery on her foot as well as her nose and chin, but he notes, "It's none of my business."

Next

hank

gaz
07-22-2004, 05:34 PM
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


Thats not exactly true, although the speaker can speak he or she does not take part in any of the debates.

memphiz
07-22-2004, 05:35 PM
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.


Ain't this fun? Where did you find this? I know its not your fault that so many of these are wrong, but I'd like to see where it came from.

Oddly enough, I have heard that Linda Cohn [from ESPN] has six toes on one foot. I have no idea if it is true.

Check this out:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmtoes.htm


This claim originated with photographer Joseph Jasgur, who in March 1946 (as a favor to a friend who ran a modeling agency) took some test shots of a nineteen-year-old model named Norma Jean Dougherty. Young Norma Jean, of course, would later become one of the twentieth century's most famous women under the name Marilyn Monroe.

Most of Jasgur's pictures of a teenaged Marilyn Monroe remained unpublished for over forty years, until he finally assembled them for a book entitled The Birth of Marilyn: The Lost Photographs of Norma Jean. It was only then, four decades after the fact, that Jasgur noticed his photographic work revealed a previously undisclosed physical feature of the young Marilyn: she had an extra toe on her left foot. As the text of his book explained:


It wasn't until 41 years later when Joseph Jasgur was alone in his darkroom making prints of that day's excursion that he noticed something odd about Normal Jean's left foot. She had six toes. A surprising discovery, he thought, but not earth-shaking. He had heard rumours of plastic surgery on her foot as well as her nose and chin, but he notes, "It's none of my business."

Next

hank
EEEEEEWWWWW!

flickme
07-22-2004, 05:38 PM
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
Thats kinda hard to believe. Wonder how accurate these are. :|

memphiz
07-22-2004, 06:06 PM
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Luckily I have a few mint condition 2 dalla bills, So I took some pics (my scanners not installed) and with my own eyes I saw the Canadian flag proudly flying over the Parliament Building...you can make it out in the picture below
http://img42.exs.cx/img42/3092/Picture180.jpg


edit: woohoo 4000th post

Herrmannek
07-22-2004, 06:16 PM
What Margy Tacher does on candian dollar?

memphiz
07-22-2004, 06:22 PM
What Margy Tacher does on candian dollar?
Thats the Queen on the bill

on the reverse side of the bill is American robins ;)

Herrmannek
07-22-2004, 06:25 PM
What Margy Tacher does on candian dollar?
Thats the Queen on the bill

on the reverse side of the bill is American robins ;)

OK :cantbeli: ... I'm not much into monarchy thing to not say I have anall relation to it...

gaz
07-22-2004, 06:26 PM
What Margy Tacher does on candian dollar?

Funniest post ever.

Herrmannek
07-22-2004, 06:30 PM
What Margy Tacher does on candian dollar?

Funniest post ever.

I tell you this must be hairdreser fault.. I think they go to the same one :)

Sayeret
07-22-2004, 06:40 PM
Not all these facts are correct but I thought it was worth posting even if only a few were true.

memphiz
07-22-2004, 06:40 PM
What Margy Tacher does on candian dollar?
Thats the Queen on the bill

on the reverse side of the bill is American robins ;)

OK :cantbeli: ... I'm not much into monarchy thing to not say I have anall relation to it...
Yeah I dont like monarchy either

hank
07-22-2004, 06:49 PM
Not all these facts are correct but I thought it was worth posting even if only a few were true.

Yeah, I'm glad you posted it. Don't misinterpret the fact that I looked a lot of it up as meaning that I think its your fault or something. Thanks for posting it.

Where did you get it?

hank

stuntman
07-22-2004, 08:27 PM
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Luckily I have a few mint condition 2 dalla bills, So I took some pics (my scanners not installed) and with my own eyes I saw the Canadian flag proudly flying over the Parliament Building...you can make it out in the picture below
http://img42.exs.cx/img42/3092/Picture180.jpg


edit: woohoo 4000th post
It's funny because the US 2 dollar bill has a picture on the back of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and on the first row starting 3 from the left on the back of the bill is a blackman sitting upfront during the sighning! http://www.clearwaterhats.com/two_dollar_bill-2-best.jpg
And there is supposed to be a woman in the backgrond when they are only aloud in the balcony section..

Hydro
07-22-2004, 09:03 PM
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.




* The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

http://www.canlaw.com/rights/thumbrul.htm

From this article:


Because many feminist activists and researchers have so great a stake in exaggerating the problem and so little compunction in doing so, objective information on battery is very hard to come by. The Super Bowl story was a bald untruth from the start. The "rule of thumb" story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of winning converts to their angry creed.


The "rule of thumb," however, turns out to be an excellent example of what may be called a feminist fiction. [51] It is not to be found in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only indifferently enforced.

That the phrase did not even originate in legal practice could have been ascertained by any fact-checker who took the trouble to look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes that the term has been used metaphorically for at least three hundred years to refer to any method of measurement or technique of estimation derived from experience rather than science.

Don't believe everything you read. I had a Law Professor who told me about this commonly believed falsehood so I had seen this one before.

Next.

hank


But the term makes for an absolutely hilarious beginning to the film "The Boondock Saints" (if you've seen it, you'll get it :))

Hawaii_Light
07-22-2004, 11:00 PM
as mephiz pointed out, it is in fact a canadian flag.
actually its the old canadian flag i think, which gives it so much of an resemblence of the american flag

Vance
07-22-2004, 11:14 PM
* The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
They're called Palindromes. Wo, Nemo, Toss A Lasso To Me Now is a palindrome. ;)

Nawlins
07-22-2004, 11:21 PM
Interesting stuff... I've seen alot of these before.

Jack Mehoff
07-22-2004, 11:33 PM
A pig can have an orgasm lasts to 2 hours *sigh* I want to be a pig some day.

Sayeret
07-22-2004, 11:48 PM
Yeah, I'm glad you posted it. Don't misinterpret the fact that I looked a lot of it up as meaning that I think its your fault or something. Thanks for posting it.

Where did you get it?

Lets just say I got it from a very biased forum that talks a lot about Russian military weapons and has Uninen on it. ;)

scott
07-22-2004, 11:51 PM
as mephiz pointed out, it is in fact a canadian flag.
actually its the old canadian flag i think, which gives it so much of an resemblence of the american flag

bingo, though i cant speak for the $2 since i havent seen one recently,
on the old five for sure on the top pole is the old canadian flag, the red ensign
similar to the US flag in that it had a dark rectangle in the top left (the union jack) and caused appropriate outrage for misunderstanding canadians

Nawlins
07-23-2004, 12:07 AM
A pig can have an orgasm lasts to 2 hours *sigh* I want to be a pig some day.

The one I saw said 30 minutes... either way, damn...

Keyboard
07-23-2004, 12:41 AM
They're called Palindromes. Wo, Nemo, Toss A Lasso To Me Now is a palindrome.

A Santa at Nasa.

:D

Pandy
07-23-2004, 02:01 AM
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Luckily I have a few mint condition 2 dalla bills, So I took some pics (my scanners not installed) and with my own eyes I saw the Canadian flag proudly flying over the Parliament Building...you can make it out in the picture below
http://img42.exs.cx/img42/3092/Picture180.jpg


edit: woohoo 4000th post
It's funny because the US 2 dollar bill has a picture on the back of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and on the first row starting 3 from the left on the back of the bill is a blackman sitting upfront during the sighning! http://www.clearwaterhats.com/two_dollar_bill-2-best.jpg
And there is supposed to be a woman in the backgrond when they are only aloud in the balcony section..

Huh, **** just gets lost in history, huh?

Burncycle
07-23-2004, 04:40 AM
They're called Palindromes. Wo, Nemo, Toss A Lasso To Me Now is a palindrome.

A man, A plan, A Canal, Panama!

Rats live on no evil star

Herrmannek
07-23-2004, 04:52 AM
kobyła ma mały bok

n4292936
07-23-2004, 05:10 AM
more facts:
The nearest star system is 4.3 light years away
the small intestine is roughly 20 feet long
the capital of Mongolia is Ulaan Bataar
the most biodiverse coral region is at the southern tip of the Phillipines
the solar system is approximately 4.5 billion years old
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