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Old 21 December 2011, 01:09 PM   #1
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Useless Facts.

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

The original game of "Monopoly" was circular

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

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

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.


If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.

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

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.

Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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Old 21 December 2011, 01:11 PM   #2
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thanks for the amusing read.
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Old 21 December 2011, 01:13 PM   #3
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Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
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Old 21 December 2011, 01:55 PM   #4
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Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. inches or cm?

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. AM or PM?

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened. which diameter 2.15mm or 3.00mm?

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Old 21 December 2011, 02:00 PM   #5
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Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. inches or cm?
Always measured in inches.
Great stats by the way!!!
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Old 21 December 2011, 02:09 PM   #6
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Old 21 December 2011, 02:38 PM   #8
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Always measured in inches.
Great stats by the way!!!
If you like those stats, try this...

If Barbie had the lead role in "The Attack of the 50' Woman" she'd be 325-192-275!

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I went to buy a Barbie doll once.....I had choices...the assistant said:

Do you want skateboarding Barbie at 19.99, or disco Barbie at 19.99, or divorced Barbie at 299.99?

I asked how come divorced Barbie was so expensive

Apparently it comes with Ken's car, Ken's house and Ken's boat.......
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I went to buy a Barbie doll once.....I had choices...the assistant said:

Do you want skateboarding Barbie at 19.99, or disco Barbie at 19.99, or divorced Barbie at 299.99?

I asked how come divorced Barbie was so expensive

Apparently it comes with Ken's car, Ken's house and Ken's boat.......
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The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.


North America
South America



yes, i majored in geography....
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No word in the english language rhymes with ORANGE


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Or with "silver"
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Or with "silver"
Think again: Dilver, Milver, Pilver, Bilver
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Old 21 December 2011, 10:22 PM   #19
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The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant)

I majored in Botany.
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did you major in botany or copying-and-pasting?

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rumbled by the geography teacher. I did major in though
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Old 22 December 2011, 01:24 AM   #23
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Great tidbits of trivia!

Thanks for posting them.
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I need to try that scorpion one. Could be a good time.
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The spider one is a myth.
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp
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Some of you guys have way...too much time on your hands!!!
But it's fun looking at your posts.....
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