Little known, Interesting & Random Facts

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Micheal Jackson's favorite food is flies. fact.

 

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A few more facts about MJ
He owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem

He make more money in a year than all of the workers put together that work for the Nike in Malaysia

AND

He was born black :bugeye:

 

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an elephants trunk has approx 60,000 muscles in it.

 

the world record for free- fall parachute jumping is 102,800 feet. the guy broke the sound barrier on the way down in the thin atmosphere, the only human ever too without an aircraft.

 

The worlds longest human chain(people held each others hands and so a chain was formed) was about 600 km long...It started from the capital of Estonia-Tallinn,went through Latvia and ended in the capital of Lithuania-Vilnius. The date was 23th August 1989 and it was a demonstration to show the world that we want to be free from that awful aggressor Russia. The Baltic countries Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania united their forces and arranged this massive demonstration. About 2 million people took part in this action. I'd like to point out that there are about 1.4 million estonians(and only 60 precent of them are really native estonians..thanks to the russians

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) and about 2 million latvians..i don't know about lithuanians...but this shows,how great it was.
We are free now

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and those f***** russians are gone..and I am so proud

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FACT: Prince Charles and Prince William are not allowed to fly on the same plane together.
Why?
Answer: Just in case the plane should crash then both lives will not be lost.

FACT: Donkeys kill more people each year than plane crashes do.

Question: Does this mean that Prince Charles and Prince William should never go mule riding together? :bugeye:

 

Interesting Facts

|| Thread "Interesting facts" (this was the OP) merged with thread "Little known facts" by Leopold.



SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

"Stewardesses"is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

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.

The goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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

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

The snail can sleep for three years. (Iknow some people that could do this too.)

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.

February1865 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.

LeonardoDa Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.

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

The cruise liner, QE2, 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. (Good thing he did that)

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. (That figures!)

NOW ... you know everything!

 

Genji:

Crumple rhymes with purple, but not phonetically.

Losange for orange...

Thoth (proper noun) and many words ending with "ff" for phonetic rhymes.

The goldfish one was recently shown to be wrong.

What about llamas, emus, and ostriches?

 

Mythbusters.

 

Crumple (krumpel) doesn't rhyme with Purple (perpel)

Losange? Never heard of it but it doesn't appear to rhyme with orange.

Interesting about the goldfish. I didn't know that.

What about llamas, emus and ostriches?

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Quite something the much worshipped Churchill was born in a Ladies Room!!

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Genji:

On paper it does: CrumPLE purPLE. Moreover, phonetically it does if given the right accent.

lozenge (spelled it wrong before) = A hard-candy like medicinal droplet for sore throats and other mouth and throat ailments. Basically, a cough drop.

Llamas, emus, and ostriches have been domesticated earlier than 4,000 years ago.

Also, did you know that Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn, New York? And then lived for a time in Kinderhook, New York?

 

My phone number is a palindrome.

 

Cool! I always thought a palindrome was one of those ringing thingy's that tunes pianos. Hmm.

 

silver rymes with killer doesent it?

 

Annelidous: (Zool.) Of the nature of an annelid.

By the Gregorian Calendar, that is.

Human males in the West.

What do you mean "Now"?

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No. The 'v' busts that rhyme.

 

The word Annelidous isn't in my dictionary. But congrats on finding such an obscure word if it is real!

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I wonder WHY there was no full moon in that period on the Greg calendar?? Anyone know or was it just cloudy??

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Also why haven't any more animals been domesticated?

 

Syzygy is the only word that has no anagram...

 

I think it depends on how you sound out the syllables. I can see both sides... "kill-er" rhymes with "silv-er"

However, "kill-er" does not rhyme with "sil-ver."

I think that is how it works...