... I just want to know stuff, so tell me things you know!!!
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Well here are some interesting facts..
The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. [THAT ONES FOR DEVIN!!]
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
I check this blog everyday when I get to ATC, so I thought I'd contribute:
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
February is Black History Month. (I had no idea.)
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
i dont have any interesting facts, buuttt i just completed levelA volumeB of the vocab and when i returned to check my score it said 0. it did that for the previous vocab too. Why is it doing this to me????!!! -Scarlet W
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.
Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
okay and my last one...anyone who has heard the syke energy commercials on the radio knows this line "server up enough energy to kick chuck norris...IN THE FACE!..over the phone." I was looking through random facts and there was a chuck norris section so it reminded me of the commercial.
OMG. !!!! idk if everyone has seen this commercial but it looks like a music video , but itz really a MCDONALDS COMMERCIAL. !! it's hilarious!! hahaha it startz off
last night i saw you creepin... TIP-TOE-TIP !
yu HAVE to check it our... go to you tube or something.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift. [too bad no one wants to learn to drive one!!]
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
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Well here are some interesting facts..
The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. [THAT ONES FOR DEVIN!!]
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
[extra credit?? :D]
oh.. and i thought this was interesting..
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
who knew..
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
"Typewriter" is the longest word you can type using only one row of the keyboard.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
Earthworms have five hearts.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning (:
Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
The total combined weight of the earth's entire ant population is more than the weight of the human population.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the USA.
Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
These are awesome, I love random facts (:
I check this blog everyday when I get to ATC, so I thought I'd contribute:
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
February is Black History Month. (I had no idea.)
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
jake b.
i dont have any interesting facts, buuttt i just completed levelA volumeB of the vocab and when i returned to check my score it said 0. it did that for the previous vocab too. Why is it doing this to me????!!!
-Scarlet W
Today is Connie's 17th birthday!!!!!!!!
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.
Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
okay and my last one...anyone who has heard the syke energy commercials on the radio knows this line "server up enough energy to kick chuck norris...IN THE FACE!..over the phone."
I was looking through random facts and there was a chuck norris section so it reminded me of the commercial.
The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
=]
BWAHAAHAHA MARIE I LOVE THOSE COMMERCIALS!
OMG. !!!!
idk if everyone has seen this commercial but it looks like a music video , but itz really a MCDONALDS COMMERCIAL. !! it's hilarious!! hahaha
it startz off
last night i saw you creepin...
TIP-TOE-TIP !
yu HAVE to check it our...
go to you tube or something.
If you have already put in grades for get a clue, mine is all done! Please put them all in!
Thank you! [:
-Kelsey Heath!
If you have already put in grades for get a clue, mine is all done! Please put them all in!
Thank you! [:
-Kelsey Heath!
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift. [too bad no one wants to learn to drive one!!]
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
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