The Random Facts Thread

I said i 'd have more so...

- No word in the English language rhymes with month.
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
- The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
- To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
- Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
- Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
- Starfish don't have brains.
- Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
 
there are only 3 words in the english language that dont rhyme with anything else, silver, purple and <font color="orange">orange</font>, ironically they are all colours!
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<font color="orange">Gorringe</font>!!!!!! :D He was our Grade 8 gym teacher. As for the other two, I haven't heard of any words either.
 
I said i 'd have more so...

- No word in the English language rhymes with month.
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
- The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
- To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
- Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
- Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
- Starfish don't have brains.
- Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
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Damn I didn't know that. Now that toonies are being made instead of two dollar bills I'll never get a chance to check that out. Oh well.
 
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

:D
 
Until President Kennedy was assassinated, it wasn't a federal crime to kill a president.

It takes a drop of ocean water 1000 years to ciculate around the world.

Cannalbalism is not illegal in Germany.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas. :lol:

Apple seeds are poisonous.

When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp.

There has been over 7200 acts of terrorism against USA in the last 15 years.

While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
 
In Cleavland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star

Cats can not taste sweet things

68% of a Twinkie is air

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during the typical French kiss (Ummmmm...Ewww)
 
I found some random facts, and sorted them according to their original source. :)

TAKEN FROM www.hookedonfacts.com

* Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
* There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
* Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.
* Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
* The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
* Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.
* The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
* Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
* All species of beetles are edible.
* Baby beavers are called kittens.
* 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
* Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
* Hummingbirds can't walk.

taken from www.ehumorcentral.com

* "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
* The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
* There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
* In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
* When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
* 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, here, ere, therein, herein.
* S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
 
* The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
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i wonder how parents in New Zealand answer their kids when they ask them where theyre going:
" oh we're going to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu!! "
:lol: major props to anyone who can say that without choking :lol:
 
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