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Post by unmasking on Dec 24, 2006 21:15:23 GMT
Hehe post any cool facts that you know
Its impossible to lick your elbow.
Try it! It is true!
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Post by robinluard on Dec 25, 2006 10:58:48 GMT
Elephants can't jump.
Horses sleep standing up.
Coca Cola contained cocaine untill 19-something.
Bananas contain a certain chemical that's also an ingredient of XTC.
I knew loads more, but I forgot most of them.
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Post by Headmistress Dagner on Dec 25, 2006 11:47:31 GMT
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows—shaved eyebrows were a fad at the time.
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Post by chris on Dec 25, 2006 14:29:23 GMT
TYPEWRITER is the longest word you can spell on the keyboard with the letters from the same line.
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Post by Alana Lestrange on Dec 25, 2006 14:43:28 GMT
antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the dictionary
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Post by Jason Newman on Dec 25, 2006 19:14:30 GMT
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
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Post by Headmistress Dagner on Dec 25, 2006 19:17:58 GMT
The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
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Post by Sabrina Bradford on Dec 27, 2006 21:24:46 GMT
70% of earth is made of water, but, only 1% can be use for drinking water.
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Post by Headmistress Dagner on Dec 28, 2006 9:19:51 GMT
The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
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Post by yayme on Dec 28, 2006 20:18:56 GMT
^dude thats not cool... J & U are the firt two letters in my name.... I'd be Lia without them
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. |
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Post by Headmistress Dagner on Dec 28, 2006 20:50:39 GMT
haha oops
Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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Post by Raven Negrohearté on Jun 21, 2007 2:45:48 GMT
antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the dictionary PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS has 45 letters but the longest word ever has 1185 letters it is: acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl- phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl- aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl- threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl- glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl- glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl- tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl- arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl- arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl- threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl- arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl- asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl- threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl- alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl- asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl- threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl- phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl- threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine |
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