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XHonusWagnerX - 7-9-2009 at 08:18 AM

I got a forwarded email with all this stuff in it this morning and some of it is kinda interesting......

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand

And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.

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".

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

CR83 - 7-9-2009 at 09:09 AM

I love that stuff

panzerkreuzer - 7-9-2009 at 09:22 AM

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

i find this interesting, seriously.

Discipline - 7-9-2009 at 09:43 AM

I love trivia like this.

Enyo - 7-9-2009 at 10:03 AM

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

WOW! I love these things.

Dave - 7-9-2009 at 10:15 AM

awesome, love this useless trivia shit

USELESS THINGS I KNOW:

a Rhinos horn is made of hair
Ant's can't die if dropped from any height
Fish do not have eyelids, but sharks do.....
cats sleep atleast 16 hours a day
jellyfish have no left or right side, no brian, or bones.

defstarsteve - 7-9-2009 at 01:10 PM

CLIFF.......
what are you drinking Mr. Clavin

thedog - 7-9-2009 at 01:14 PM

In the US there is only 2 days in the year that there is no
major league Baseball, Football, Hockey, or Basketball game.

The day before and after the Major League Baseball All-Star game.

Dave - 7-9-2009 at 02:47 PM

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
CLIFF.......
what are you drinking Mr. Clavin

Well, not only is skin the largest organ in the body, but another interesting little tidbit about skin is that the human body sheds about three pounds of it over the course of the year.
(Norm: "Some of mine just crawled away.")
(Woody: "I don't understand, where does it go?")
To the atmosphere... dust.
(Norm: "What?")
Yeah, yeah, about 75% of all dust is human skin.

RomanticViolence - 7-9-2009 at 02:48 PM

Rough toilet paper can and has fucked my day up.

MikeResist - 7-9-2009 at 02:51 PM

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Originally posted by RomanticViolence
Rough toilet paper can and has fucked my day up.

This just happened to me at work.

necrobutcher - 7-9-2009 at 07:08 PM

Anyone ever hear of the three light rule?

I have heard it is bad luck to light 3 cigarettes of off one flick of the lighter or one match.
During World War I if three guys tried to light 3 smokes off one light it would give someone on the other side of the trenches time to get a bead on the general area and fire a shot.

Dave - 7-9-2009 at 10:02 PM

never heard that one before

barc0debaby - 7-9-2009 at 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MikeResist

Quote:

Originally posted by RomanticViolence
Rough toilet paper can and has fucked my day up.

This just happened to me at work.

I keep a bottle of baby powder handy at both home and work for such occasions. I get mean swampass working in a hot warehouse.

upyerbum - 7-9-2009 at 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by necrobutcher
Anyone ever hear of the three light rule?

I have heard it is bad luck to light 3 cigarettes of off one flick of the lighter or one match.
During World War I if three guys tried to light 3 smokes off one light it would give someone on the other side of the trenches time to get a bead on the general area and fire a shot.

Yeah, third light, first smoke he sees you, second smoke he takes aim, third smoke.....

REV.PAULIE - 7-10-2009 at 06:58 AM

good sites :

www.darkroastedblend.com

www.inventorspot.com

www.ted.com

and,of course...

www.wfmu.org - go to "beware of the blog"....endless...