Weird Facts

[silver_corolla]

1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

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

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

14. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

15. Alfred Hitchthingy didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

16. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

17. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

18. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

19. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

20. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

21. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

22. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

23. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

24. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

25. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

26. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

27. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

28. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

29. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

30. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

31. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

[stinkaboy]

ok ah, nadagdagan knowledge ko :D

[benchph1]

thanks for sharing silver corolla!

[kimpOy]

commonly use first name is mohammad
and for the record commonly use last name is Chan

but ironically no one is named Mohammad Chan

[pajerokid]

Oks yan kim, papalit ka ng first name para Mohammed Chan na hehe

[silver_corolla]

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

wattafck! :confused:


i bet no person can survive after saying that place-name (aloud) in one breath without suffering from sever brain damage due to lack of O2. hehehe! :bwahaha:

[mazdamazda]

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. How many people is this a problem for? Do that many people really keep their toothbrushes on top of the toilet's tank?

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. Nurse, please hand me a coconut.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. Except for the year 2001.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. What happens if I fall asleep in front of the TV?

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. Judging by last year's bumper crop, all our oaks have reached that age now.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Yeah, you have to wake up enough to dig all the apple skin out from between your teeth.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. And I care why? Relatedly, this is weird in what way?

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. How about some just needed them for reading, so didn't need to wear them in public. Or maybe they wore contacts (and possibly not for vanity but because of an eye condition). I can believe the first sentence, but believe the second is just a leap of the imagination.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. The Wonderful Spouse has been working on replacing Coke with Pepsi, but evidently hasn't succeeded.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. I saw this on Hill Street Blues as a sight gag, but am not convinced of the voracity of the statement.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. And I presume the horses could make it back down the stairs (unlike the poor cows)?

Turtles can breathe through their butts. That's no biggie - the Wonderful Spouse does that all the time. Oh, they can breathe in too - my bad.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. So make sure you chew your pen well before swallowing!

On average people fear spiders more than death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. I can only pray that I'm not that 1 in 2 billion!

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Was this study done with women who wore mascera, which with the flaking, would cause more blinkage? But more importantly, were my tax dollars put to work figuring this out?

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. Unless you're Gene Simmons

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years. And I thought my cats slept a lot.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed. I believe that should read left pawed!

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. I wish one would learn to and stick it out at that Crocodile Hunter idiot!

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. I find this hard to believe (they must have lit campfires somehow without resorting to carrying around a coal), but am too lazy to prove or disprove it.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow. Guilty. I also tried folding a piece of paper more than 7 times - and failed.

[mazdamazda]

Weird Similarities between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln

* Both were concerned with civil rights and racism
* Lincoln was elected president in 1860; Kennedy was elected in 1960
* Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy; Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln
* Both last names have 7 letters
* Lincoln’s secretary advised him not to go to the theatre; Kennedy’s secretary advised him not to go to Dallas
* Both were assassinated on a Friday in the presence of their wives
* Both were shot in the head from behind
* Lincoln’s successor was Andrew Johnson, a southern Democrat Senator; Kennedy’s successor was Lyndon Johnson, also a southern Democrat Senator
* Both had had a child die while they were in the White House
* Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, shot him in a theatre and ran to a warehouse; Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot him in Dealey Plaza and ran to a theatre to hide
* Lincoln’s assassin was born in 1839; Kennedy’s assassin was born in 1939

[kimpOy]

sige pa!!!

[BlueBimmer]

wow the similarities are amazing!

[van_wilder]

received ko na yan sa email yun kennedy - lincoln...

ito pa...

"appear" came from "up here"

"sirit" from "share it"

hehehe wala lang

[the_wildthing]

Who the heck is Alfred Hitchthingy? Did an automated censor replace the word for male chicken?

[Aston Martin]

eto pang lokal naman.....

alam nyo ba na hindi nilalangaw ang lechon baboy? yung buo pa ha. ehhehe

[jim]

eto pang lokal naman.....

alam nyo ba na hindi nilalangaw ang lechon baboy? yung buo pa ha. ehhehe

good observation Aston!!! Totoo nga na hindi nilalangaw ang buong lechon baboy!!! Subok na namin ito.

[Ungas]

Bakit nga ba? Dumudulas ang langaw sa taba?

[Walter]

The word "set" has at least 52 different meanings.

[Aston Martin]

Bakit nga ba? Dumudulas ang langaw sa taba?

hehehe...bukod dun health conscious kasi sila kaya umiiwas sa cholestereol

[FrankDrebin]

good observation Aston!!! Totoo nga na hindi nilalangaw ang buong lechon baboy!!! Subok na namin ito.

Hindi totoo yan. Doon po sa amin ay tao po ang lumalangaw sa lechon.

[stinkaboy]

ok ang thread na to hehehe.

[jim]

Bakit nga ba? Dumudulas ang langaw sa taba?

Ang sabi po ng mga gumagawa eh dahil yung balat ng lechon di attractive sa langaw pero yung laman ng lechon yun ang nakaka-attract. Pero totoo kasi yung naka-display na buong lechon sa amin pag fiesta di talaga nilalangaw. Pag na-chop na or may crack na yung balat saka dumadapo yung langaw sa part kung saan na-chop or na-crack hehehehehehe........