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dandele!
13.2.2003 12:11:49
quote | Strange facts
hyvää "tylsistymiksen ehkäisy"-lukemista: sori et on pitkä. pari tosi herkkua.
275 Strange Facts:
Look at the number four on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is "IV," but the traditional way to show it on a clock face is "IIII." Legend has it that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a "IIII" instead of an "IV" thus not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit so as not to embarrass the king. Now it is the traditional way to make clocks.
Every episode of "Seinfeld" contains at least one Superman.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
"Halloween" took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on "Scooby-Doo."
Soda water does not contain soda.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
"Smithee" is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
Bob May played the Robot on "Lost In Space" (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
The spaceship 'Valley Forge' from "Silent Running" (1971) actually got it's name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
If you pause "Saturday Night Fever" at the "How Deep Is Your Love" rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original "PREDATOR" in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
Sharon Stone was the first "Star Search" spokes model.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE". Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn't know the difference so he could complete filming.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
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.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the statement "to get fired."
The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Cat urine glows under a black light.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply ' if you were my wife, I would drink it!'
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
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.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
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.
In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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 causes.
Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was 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.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV.
During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would forestall curses.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase "mark twain" from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
"Race car" is a palindrome.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
The band "Duran Duran" got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
The term "Mayday" is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me."
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname 'Useless'.
Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
Russians generally answer the phone by saying, 'I'm listening.'
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with _any_ number you will always find the original number in the result!
If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe
| OddBro 
Oddin(a)jippii.fi
13.2.2003 12:31:47
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Heh, aika hyviä faktoja, ruokatunti sujui sukkelasti..Tosin kaikki vain eivät pidä paikkaansa..esim.Ei Fretti naaras kuole, jos se ei parittele kiiman aikana..No tossa vain yksi esimerkki.
-OddBro
Piti vielä noi typot korjata
-- Edited: 13.2.2003 12:33:05 (OddBro)
| Beyond 
beyond|netti|dot|fi
13.2.2003 12:38:13
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-Blue eyed lemur. 
| Pepto 
otpeP
13.2.2003 12:46:10
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| champagne 
13.2.2003 13:15:20
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cheers dude!
i enjoyed this.....
hard to say though if all of these are
100% correct facts
| hewe
dandele!
13.2.2003 13:16:45
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"To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles."
| omniholic
Candy from a Stranger
13.2.2003 15:55:40
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aika hyvää tylsistymisen ehkäisyä tosiaan on lukea noita ja miettiä kuinka monta EI pidä paikkaansa...aika moni nimittäin.
| hewe
dandele!
13.2.2003 15:58:15
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star trek on aika pioneeri sarja!
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
mut joo mä veikkaan et tolle sivulle on saanut lähettää noita ja ei noiden fact checkin varmaan mitään huippuluokkaa oo ollu. mut se on totta ettei casablancassa koskaan sanota "play it again, sam." again pitää ottaa pois.
| mekaanikko 
ät nutempo piste com
13.2.2003 17:49:07
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Joo, virheitä riittää. Tossa pari joita jaksoin tsekata, lista olis varmasti paljon pitempi...
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"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
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Y isn't a vowel?
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There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
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The Bible speaks of "fruit", so yeah, they don't say it was an *apple* but...
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Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
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He (with Emile Gagnan) invented the *modern* SCUBA equipment (the aqualung) in 1943. The word SCUBA was coined by Dr. Christian Lambertsen in 1939.
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Soda water does not contain soda.
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It does contain bicarbonate of soda...
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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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It MAY - or may not - die (due to estrogen "overdose").
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Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
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Although they help diving, the main purpose of eating stones is digestive (cf. many birds who also swallow pebbles for digestive reasons).
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There is a city called Rome on every continent.
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Not on Antarctica. =)
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The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
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Nope. Screws were in common use in the 1st century BC, metal screws appeared in the 15th century and the first simple screwdrivers appeared in mid to late 18th century.
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Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
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Well, if you prefer to think of Pluto and its moon Charon as a binary planet (as to my knowledge most professional astronomers do nowadays), Charon was not a god in the Greek mythology (he was the ferryman of the River Styx). The so-called exoplanets (planets outside our own solar system) are also not named after gods.
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It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
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And? That's not the only stupid rumor around.
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The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
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That'll be a rather light-weighted pickup truck, cos the catapult "only" generates like 250 000 newtons worth of force so if the truck weighs 2 500 kg, that'll leave only 100 N/kg, which is only enough to throw the truck 10 m straight upwards.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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I wouldn't count on that, though it surely helps.
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From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
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Their *height* begins to shrink due to the fact that their spine shrinks. Most people's volume keeps increasing. =)
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Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
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Oh gee! I wouldn't have guessed!
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Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
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The age oaks start producing acorns is 30.
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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.
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William Shakespeare is also believed to be a pen name so what's so drastic about this?
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Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
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Well, that doesn't work because a refridgerator does not heat the food. If there's -30 Centigrade outside, then that's what's inside the fridge too.
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Cat urine glows under a black light.
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"A black light" is blacklight, a.k.a. ultraviolet light, I presume? (There is no literally "black" light, as black is defined as being the absence of (perceived) light.) I'd guess human urine glows in UV, too, if you eat a lot of chewing gum at least.
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George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
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Not in his garden AFAIK. He grew in on a field.
-- Edited: 13.2.2003 17:49:59 (mekaanikko)
| hewe
dandele!
13.2.2003 17:56:16
quote |
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
---
>Oh gee! I wouldn't have guessed!
your beard and fingernails have been known to grow after you die. bodies which the police have found have had "3 day beards."
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Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
---
>Well, that doesn't work because a refridgerator does not heat the food. If there's -30 Centigrade >outside, then that's what's inside the fridge too.
dig a few feet under the snow and the temperature is near 0, that's the idea.
| hewe
dandele!
18.6.2003 21:46:51
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kännibump courtesy of hewe & waremouse
| Ville 
18.6.2003 23:03:19
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mut kuitenki silleen hyvä tietää...
| matt trakker 
18.6.2003 23:38:42
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Y ei kai oo vokaali. vaan ns. puolivokaali.
koska se voidaan lausua sekä vokaalina että konsonanttina
yellow = y on konsonantti
why = y on vokaali
näi kuuli.
mut en tii.
prove me wrong kids proooove me wroong 
| Quu 
Action Jackson
19.6.2003 0:02:37
quote |
" "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV. "
Taisi olla muuten Dire Straitsin "Money for nothing" tms.
| dr.phibes 
mutsis oli mutsis
19.6.2003 0:24:00
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Taisi olla muuten Dire Straitsin "Money for nothing" tms.
ei ainakaan mtv:n mukaan
ne joskus sitä siel hehkutti....
nii ja ostos tvn josain mainokses sanottii kans ja mä uskon kaiken mitä ne sanoo ostos tv:ssä
| matt trakker
19.6.2003 0:31:09
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moon kuullu kans et sois video killed the radioo staaaaaar
| rjv 
emo junglist
19.6.2003 1:34:11
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mun mielest kyl ol money for nothing. tai ainaski se oli eka jossain emmä tiiä.
| hewe
dandele!
13.9.2003 19:27:34
quote |
bump.
There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the United States.
The size of a mosquito penis is 1/100th of an inch.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
Menstrual cramps have been known, in rare cases, to induce orgasm.
Each year, 55,700 people in the U.S. are injured by jewelry.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
There are approximately 550 hairs in the human eyebrow.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
The snow scenes in "It's A Wonderful Life" were shot during a record heat wave in Southern California.
On average, a four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kidsuntil they reach the age of 10believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
A recent survey found the typical driver will swear or blaspheme 32,025 times behind the wheel of their car during their lifetime.
Women have a higher incidence of tooth decay than men.
Rod Stewart once worked as a gravedigger.
A Scorpion tank asserts less surface pressure than a 10 stone ballerina on tip-toe
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
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, ere, therein, herein.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
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."
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on
4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, or purple.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Five percent of men and 11 percent of women claim they have never masturbated.
Frogs jump. Toads walk.
Eighty-five percent of men don't use the front opening in their
underwear when they urinate.
Moose intercourse typically lasts about five seconds.
Half the world's population has seen at least one James Bond movie.
The average beard grows five inches a year.
On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.
There are 49 different kinds of food mentioned in the Bible.
During World War II, it cost the United States $225,000 to kill an enemy soldier.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could
have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
18. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrial or their vehicles?
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for
dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Crocodiles kill 2,000 people each year. By contrast, sharks kill about 25 people, elephants kill 250 and bees kill about 1,500.
Nonsmokers dream more than smokers.
Technically, the banana is a berry.
There are 90 turns in a Slinky.
>
The first condoms in the U.S. were made in the 1870s from vulcanized rubber. They were expensive, thick and intended to be reused.
Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
Hawaii is the only state that's never recorded a temperature below zero degrees Fahrenheit.
Stalin's original name was Josif Djugashvili. In 1913, he began using the pseudonym Stalin, meaning "Man of Steel."
The greater dwarf lemur in Madagascar always gives birth to
triplets.
The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes a year.
The average person in the U.S. spends eight years of their life watching television.
The first movie made in Hollywood was "The Law and the Range" (in 1912).
In Hong Kong, soy milk is as popular as Coca-Cola is in the U.S.
Your thumbnail grows more slowly than any of your fingernails.
There were 61,825 homes destroyed when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
The Bible has been translated into 2,233 languages.
About 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.
A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
During his lifetime, Shakespeare's last name was spelled 83
different ways.
Eighty-three percent of people hit by lightning are men.
Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't.
The original idea for steak knives derived from shark teeth.
President Lyndon Johnson had an aunt named Frank.
The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a chess game is 318,979,564,000.
The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is called a "fillip."
Twenty-five percent of Americans don't know what their astrological sign is.
The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
Female baboons have been known to engage in a primitive form of prostitution by stealing food during sex.
Fewer than 30 percent of parents in the U.S. discuss sex with their children.
The typical penguin has just one orgasm a year.
The average sperm donor makes $4,000 to $5,000 a year.
The sperm count of the average American male is down 30 percent from 30 years ago.
It's illegal to have sex with a corpse anywhere in the United
States.
Semen contains small amounts of more than 30 elements, including fructose, ascorbic acid, cholesterol, creatine, citric acid, lactic acid, nitrogen, vitamin B12, and various salts and enzymes.
Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973.
In an average man's semen, about 10 percent are abnormal.
A recent survey of prostitutes revealed that the most frequent sex act performed is fellatio.
Minks have sex sessions that last, on average, eight hours.
According to a national study of female sexuality, candles are the artificial device used most frequently by women during masturbation.
In London, it's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle.
Experts estimate that a real orgasm burns 112 calories. A faked orgasm burns 315 calories.
Despite their reputation, there have been no deaths attributed to tarantula bites recorded in history.
Oxtail soup isn't made from ox. It's made from beef tails.
There is no species of fish called the sardine. Usually small herring or pilchard are processed as sardines.
Americans use the word "macaroni" to mean a specific kind of pasta, but in Italy, maccherone (or "mixture of elements") refers to all types of pasta.
Klondike isn't in Alaska, it's in the Yukon Territoryin Canada.
"Nice" didn't always mean what it means today. Originally, it came from the Latin nescius (ignorant), and grew to mean "foolish" in the 14th and 15th centuries.
The American robin isn't a robin, it's a thrush.
The song "Home on the Range" says "where the deer and the antelope play." Actually, there are no antelope in North America.
Mississippi Bay is nowhere near Mississippi. It's outside of Yokohama, Japan.
Yams and sweet potatoes are actually unrelated vegetables.
The Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea aren't seas. They're lakes.
Takeoffs and landings aren't what cause the most wear and tear on airplane tiresit's the taxiing.
Many are surprised to discover Alaska is the most eastern U.S. state. Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state.
Black-eyed peas aren't peas. They're beans.
People in the time of Columbus did not believe the world was flat. Not since the days of Greece had anyone thought that.
Rabbits are more closely related to horses than they are to rodents or mice.
George Washington didn't have a middle name.
People weren't always said to "smoke tobacco." That phrase didn't become popular until the 1750s. Before that, the expression for smoking was to "drink tobacco."
The Romans did not use chariots in ancient wars. They used them for sport and transportation, not in war.
There is no one place known as the Kremlin. Moscow has one, but so do lots of Russian cities. In Russian, Kremlin means a citadel or fortress. Also, Moscow's Kremlin is not a specific building, but a complex within a large walled space.
The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.
The Pony Express didn't use ponies, they used horses.
Cucumbers aren't vegetablesthey're fruits.
Polecats aren't cats. They're nocturnal European weasels.
There's no evidence that pirates ever buried their treasure. That myth first came up when captain William Kidd lied about burying his gold during his trial.
One cannot be given the Congressional Medal of Honor. No such thing. It's just the Medal of Honor.
The correct version of the widely misused phrase "far from the maddening crowd" is actually "far from the madding crowd." Madding means "frenzied."
You might be surprised to learn that more people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
It is often incorrectly assumed Chicken Kiev was invented by Russians. However, it was actually created by French chefs for Russian nobility.
Despite what you might suspect, Italy imports most of its pasta from the U.S. and Canada.
Our muscles can't push, they can only pull.
George Washington never threw a dollar across the Potomac. There weren't any dollars during Washington's youththe currency was British.
Panama hats aren't made in Panama. They're made in Ecuador.
Ladybirds aren't birdsthey're beetles.
A popularly held belief is that soda water contains soda. It doesn't.
Pintos and palominos are not breeds of horses, those names denote colors.
Compasses do not point to the North Pole. They point to magnetic north, far from the North Pole.
Chest hair has no connection to virility.
Remember Atari games? The company isn't Japanese, even though most people think so. The name was chosen so consumers would think the company, based in Northern California, was Japanese
A dog can suffer from tonsillitis, but not appendicitis. They don't have an appendix.
Greyhounds have the keenest eyesight of any dog breed.
Dogs that reside in cities live about three years longer than dogs that live in the country.
In Brooklyn, N.Y., it's illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub.
A dog can't hear the lowest key on a piano.
Dog food is the most profitable food on the market. People spend four times as much on dog food as they do on baby food.
Every hour, 12,500 puppies are born in the United States.
Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.
The word for "dog" in the Australian aboriginal language Mbabaran happens to be "dog."
The chow is the only dog with a black tongue.
The first year of a dog's life is equal to 21 years of human life (the dog grows to adulthood.) Each additional year is equivalent to four human years.
Nose prints are the most reliable way to identify dogs.
The five most popular dog tricks in the U.S. are sit, shake (paw), roll over, speak and lie down.
Crab was the only named dog in any Shakespearean play. The play was Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Dogs like squeeze toys because they sound like animals in distress.
Dogs like squeeze toys because they sound like animals in distress.
A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, claim the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, dogs rely more on smell.)
A U.N. survey revealed fewer British mailmen are bitten by dogs than postal carriers in any other nation.
Scientists insist that no dog has ever been bored.
Calling a puppy to punish it teaches the dog not to come when it's called. It's best to reward your dog by bringing it to you, and to punish it by sending it away.
There are one million stray dogs in the New York City metropolitan area.
There's a law in International Falls, Minnesota, that states it's illegal for cats to chase dogs up telephone poles in that city.
The average housefly lives for one month.
Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
According to a recent survey, 46 percent of Americans say their car is the most important thing in their lives. Six percent say their children hold that distinction.
There is an Australian wasp with the scientific name Aha ha.
"Fine turkey" and "honeycomb" are terms used for different qualities and textures of sponges.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
On average, Italians get 42 vacation days every year.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "smile."
The first car with air-conditioning was the Packard.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a "epithalamium."
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar.
The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.
Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring. (It's actually white.)
"Breath," by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts 30 seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue.
Coca-Cola is Africa's largest private-sector employer.
Confucius was the eleventh child of a 70-year-old soldier. '
| Gnizhak 
iku
14.9.2003 14:33:17
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tuolla on myös virheitä.
| hewe
dandele!
14.9.2003 15:07:05
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"People in the time of Columbus did not believe the world was flat. Not since the days of Greece had anyone thought that. "
varsinkin toi on väärin.
| dr.phibes
mutsis oli mutsis
23.8.2004 15:29:54
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quote:
<b>Taisi olla muuten Dire Straitsin "Money for nothing" tms.</b>
ei ainakaan mtv:n mukaan
ne joskus sitä siel hehkutti....
nii ja ostos tvn josain mainokses sanottii kans ja mä uskon kaiken mitä ne sanoo ostos tv:ssä
nonni nysse sekin on selvää
Dire Straitsin - Money for nothing oli mtv europen eka piisi
silviissii nyt saa taas kaikki nukuttua yöunensa kunnolla
| roshi 
myspace.com/roshisound
24.8.2004 8:38:43
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Bruce Lee oli niin nopea, että filmiä piti hidastaa!
| Hanna
24.8.2004 9:19:05
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'Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring. (It's actually white.)'
hmm.. onko kukaan teistä ikinä sattunut tekemään noita kermasta?
se ei kyl ole valkosta. aika vaaleaa, mut ei todellakaan valkosta. keltaiseksi se kyl menee.
| Nick fury 
nick.fury [grrrrrrr] basspac
24.8.2004 10:59:21
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quote:
<BR>"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels. <BR>--- <BR><BR>Y isn't a vowel? <BR>
No Y isn't a vowel in English...ever. Tut tut juuso would've thought you knew that one 
-- Edited: 24.8.2004 11:00:04 (Nick fury)
| Bob Ryynänen 
bitch plz
20.3.2007 8:59:21
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*bump*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
| mwandishi_ 
fail better
20.3.2007 10:14:59
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quote:
quote:
<BR>"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words
without vowels. <BR>--- <BR><BR>Y isn't a vowel?
<BR>
No Y isn't a vowel in English...ever. Tut tut juuso would've thought you knew that one  -- Edited: 24.8.2004 11:00:04 (Nick fury)
i don't quite get this one. i've been under the impression, that the only non-vowel y's in english are word-initial (ie. yellow etc.). of course the letter y occasionally does stand for semi-vowels or glides (in a variety of languages), but in the context of rhythm and syzygy it is a clear case.
merriam-webster says:
Main Entry: rhythm
Pronunciation: 'ri-[th]&m
Main Entry: syz·y·gy
Pronunciation: 'si-z&-jE
so it would be safe to say that atleast in standard english the words rhythm and syzygy have vowels.
| com. 
~~~
20.3.2007 17:20:51
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| pakana 
Der Zorn Gottes
20.3.2007 17:27:00
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| Ana-5000 
have axe, will travel
20.3.2007 17:33:18
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quote:
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
---
>Oh gee! I wouldn't have guessed!
your beard and fingernails have been known to grow after you die. bodies which the police have found have had "3 day beards."
bs. Se sänki johtuu siitä, että iho kuivuu ja vetäytyy kuoleman jälkeen kasaan, paljastaen ihon sisällä olleet karvat. Sama tapahtuu kynsille. Se näyttää siltä että ne kasvais, vaikka ne ei tietenkään kasva. Kynsi- ja karvasolujen toiminta ei ole mitenkään autonomista muista elintoiminnoista. Kun henki lähtee, sekin loppuu.
quote:
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Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
---
>Well, that doesn't work because a refridgerator does not heat the food. If there's -30 Centigrade >outside, then that's what's inside the fridge too.
dig a few feet under the snow and the temperature is near 0, that's the idea.
Siihenhän ei jääkaappi auta, koska jääkaappi lauhduttaa sisäpuoltaan kompressorilla. Jos ympäröivä ilma on kylmempää kuin jääkaapin lämpötila huoneenlämmössä, ei jääkaappi pysy lämpimämpänä vaan jäähtyy entisestään.
noista faktoista on aina noin joka 20. perusteeton. Ankan vaakkuminen kaikuu, patsaiden jaloilla ei ole mitään tekemistä kuolinsyiden kanssa, linnut ei huku katsoessaan ylös sateella, etc...
| badgerbadgerbadger 
mushroommushroom
20.3.2007 18:15:04
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quote:
" "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first video ever played on MTV. "
Taisi olla muuten Dire Straitsin "Money for nothing" tms.
Video Killed the Radio Star oli MTV:n eka biisi
Money for Nothing oli MTV Europen eka.
Money for Nothingissahan lauletaan MTV:stä ("you play the guitar on the MTV").
edit: tämähän näköjään siis selvisi tuolla ylempänäkin jo.
-- Edited: 20.3.2007 18:15:37 (badgerbadgerbadger)
| Tuuli
20.3.2007 23:03:38
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Ystavani joka on Oxfordista kotoisin ja aikanaan opiskeli itselleen kandin englannin kielesta ja kirjallisuudesta vaitti mulle myos etta Y on englannissa vokaali.
Tosin tyyppi havisa mulle scrabblessa kolme kertaa perakkain pelatessani sita ekaa kerta. Ja mun aidinkieli ei todellakaan ole englanti Et en tiia onks se kuitenkaan ollu ihan alallaan siella yliopistossa..
| pakana
Der Zorn Gottes
21.3.2007 0:11:33
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Äänteet on vokaaleja tai konsonantteja, ei kirjaimet. Äikässä opetettiin vokaalimerkit aeiouyäö vokaaleiks, mut kielitieteessä niillä tarkotetaan puhutun kielen äänteitä ja äänneyhdistelmiä. Englannissa vokaalimerkit, kuten toi y, voi olla vähän sitä sun tätä, yhteydestä riippuen. Luulen kyl et mwandishi ja aito oxfordin kandi on oikeessa täs tapauksessa.
(edit: kieliopista heristellessä ei sovi jättää kirjoitusvirheitä kaiken kansan naurettavaks)
-- Edited: 21.3.2007 0:20:06 (pakana)
| Nick fury
nick.fury [grrrrrrr] basspac
21.3.2007 1:17:57
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i don't quite get this one. i've been under the impression, that the only non-vowel y's in english are word-initial (ie. yellow etc.). of course the letter y occasionally does stand for semi-vowels or glides (in a variety of languages), but in the context of rhythm and syzygy it is a clear case.
merriam-webster says:
Main Entry: rhythm
Pronunciation: 'ri-[th]&m
Main Entry: syz·y·gy
Pronunciation: 'si-z&-jE
so it would be safe to say that atleast in standard english the words rhythm and syzygy have vowels.
err..no. Y is not a vowel. It is a consonant. It is always a consonant in English unlike Finnish and Swedish, for example. It might have a vowel sound i.e. have the phonetic properties of an 'i' for example (like in rhythm - except even in this example we have a tripthong using the letters rhy, so te letter 'y' doesn't even produce that sound on it's own) but it's still a consonant. Rhythm and syzygy do not have vowels in them. As you know in English we use the article 'an' when a word begins with a vowel sound. Can you think of a word beginning with a 'y' that we would use 'an' with? Tuuli - I'm afraid your friend is wrong. Of course, I could also be wrong so please prove me incorrect :)
| pakana
Der Zorn Gottes
21.3.2007 1:34:50
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Yes Nick you are wrong, Y is neither a consonant or a vowel, it's just a letter. Vocals and consonants are classes of phonemes or sounds, referring to spoken language.
Y is commonly forming vowels in english, except in the beginning of word where it's always forming a consonant.
why
my
play
are some examples of Y as a vowel.
| petsku 
mamasboy
21.3.2007 11:12:21
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From "Ask Oxford":
Is the letter Y a vowel or a consonant?
Yes, the letter Y is a vowel or a consonant! In terms of sound, a vowel is 'a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction...', while a consonant is 'a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed' (definitions from the New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998). The letter Y can be used to represent different sounds in different words, and can therefore fit either definition. In myth or hymn it is clearly a vowel, and also in words such as my, where it stands for a diphthong (a combination of two vowel sounds). On the other hand, in a word like beyond there is an obstacle to the breath which can be heard between two vowels, and the same sound begins words like young and yes. (This consonant sound, like that of the letter W, is sometimes called a 'semivowel' because it is made in a similar way to a vowel, but functions in contrast to vowels when used in words.) Whether the letter Y is a vowel or a consonant is therefore rather an arbitrary decision. The letter is probably more often used as a vowel, but in this role is often interchangeable with the letter I. However, the consonant sound is not consistently represented in English spelling by any other letter, and perhaps for this reason Y tends traditionally to be counted among the consonants.
| Tuuli
21.3.2007 18:45:11
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Ystavani joka on Oxfordista kotoisin ja aikanaan opiskeli itselleen kandin englannin kielesta ja kirjallisuudesta vaitti mulle myos etta Y on englannissa vokaali. Tosin tyyppi havisa mulle scrabblessa kolme kertaa perakkain pelatessani sita ekaa kerta. Ja mun aidinkieli ei todellakaan ole englanti  Et en tiia onks se kuitenkaan ollu ihan alallaan siella yliopistossa..
*punastuu*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Ou shit mun pitais olla ihan hiljaa ku piti kirjottaa etta nimenomaan konsonantti
, ku sita ma itekin ihmettelin silloin ku suomessa se on vokaali.
Ni alkaa enaa ikina kiinnittako minkaanlaista huomiota siihen mita ma sanon tai teen ku oon ihan sekasin selkeesti.
Ni ja mulla on nappaimiston kayttamisessa ilmenevia lukihairio- oireita. En tiia liittyykse aeaekkosten puuttumiseen mutta on vaikea huomata noita kirjoitusvirheita, kun niita tulee kokoajan ja muutenki kirjotan huolimattomasti. Pyydan anteeksi ja poistun takavasemmalle. Enka enaa ota kantaa kielioppiasioihin.
| Quu
Action Jackson
17.10.2008 13:02:49
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Liquid condensing on a cold Coke is from the air.
As silly as it may sounds, dishwashing liquid should never go into a dishwasher. Dishwasher liquid is preferable and will not leave soap suds all over the kitchen.
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Deer don't necessarily cross at "deer crossing" signs.
Emotionally, psychologically, and personally: Porn isn't free. It costs everyone (even those not directly involved) something.
Windows Key + Pause/Break Key brings up System Properties.
One day I was loading up a BB gun with a friend and I said, "I don't know why they call these things BBs; they're just ball bearings..."
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NEVER lick the cake off of a knife.
Virginia is further west than West Virginia.
Your girlfriend says it's alright. It isn't. She's testing you.
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Getting a manager to take a call is almost impossible.
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COPS is the greatest television show ever. It's like the Shakespeare of our time.
It's not "per say"; it's "per se" because it's Latin. According to Wikipedia it means, "in, of, or by itself; in its own right."
It's called a "movie" because the pictures are moving!
Took me years to figure out that they were singing "In The Navy" not "ukulele" in The Village People song of same name.
In an action movie, whenever someone says they need "x" amount of time to get something done and their partner tells them they only have "y" amount, they always get the thing done. ALWAYS.
Bohemian Rhapsody has nothing to do with the Bahamas and even less to do with rap CDs.
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When throwing a book across a room, always throw it spine first, otherwise it will open out and the pages will disturb its flight path.
My mother thought that mice are baby rats, up until age 57 when she told me this and I straightened her out.
Galactagogue: An agent that promotes the secretion and flow of milk. Galaxy...Milky Way. Duh.
| Polhö
17.10.2008 13:28:57
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Selvisi monta askarruttanutta asiaa tuosta Quun listasta.
| nte 
wantex - gmail.com
17.10.2008 17:23:11
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COPS is the greatest television show ever. It's like the Shakespeare of our time.
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