Monday, May 11, 2009

OH DID you know that.......(((useless fact)))?

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.


The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)


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


The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.


The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.


The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.


The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.


Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe


The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.


The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.


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


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


When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.


The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.


Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.


Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.


There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.


There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.


In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.


Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.


Hamsters love to eat crickets.


The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.


The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.


The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol.


The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."


No word in the English language rhymes with month.


Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.


Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later.


The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.


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


Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.


If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.


Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.


The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean


In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.


The oldest word in the English language is "town"


The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism"...


A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.


A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.


The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is


Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party.


On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the


"shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.


No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.


A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.


It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open


Human birth control pills work on gorillas.


Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.


The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.


The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.


An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.


Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.


The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w."


The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.


Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.


A whale's penis is called adork.


Coca-Cola was originally green.


Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.


Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.


The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.


The youngest pope was 11 years old.

OH DID you know that.......(((useless fact)))?
Yes... well, except for the one about the world's youngest parents....





But DID YOU KNOW that "Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe" this is this origin of the word POSH... which stands for Port Out Starboard Home?
Reply:That is seriously awesome....seriously.
Reply:I am guessing you have a lot of free time.





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"I BELIEVE IN U.S."
Reply:*OMG* my head is gunna explode..cant handle all these facts..thats why i gradded high school and didnt go to college...HELPPPPPPP
Reply:i can't believe i actually read all of that. i really need to get to work now.
Reply:i knew most of em...the cross on the t is a title too, not just the dot on the i
Reply:wow....
Reply:I found that very interesting thank you!
Reply:haha, u must be bored today.
Reply:Wow. I didn't know that.
Reply:oh my god


The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910., -who ever made their kids do that are real nasty and gross, imagine being one of them kids, EEEK
Reply:son of a *****!!





how long did u work on that?
Reply:That is amazing. You have way to much time on your hands.


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