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I am one of those people who LOVE finding out all kinds of information, even if it's absolutely useless in day-to-day life, so I have created this group where you are welcome to post any and all useless info you know and want to share, all I ask is that you look into it as much as you can to make sure it is true, thus making it all the more interesting.
I look forward to seeing some rather interesting posts 
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50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
(or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
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http://www.world-english.org/facts.htm
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Sargasso Sea without a coastline
The Sargasso Sea is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, between the West Indies and the Azores, covering some 3 million square kilometres (2 million square miles). Jules Verne wrote about it in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".
The Sargasso Sea is encircled by the The Gulf Stream and the North Equatorial Current, causing the oval-shaped sea to move in a slow, clockwise drift. The water is exceptionally blue, with a high salt content.
Its warm waters are exceptionally clear and blue, and filled with seaweed. Early navigators becalmed in the sea's still waters mistakenly believed their ships were tangled in the seaweed. They named the sea "sargaco", the Portuguese word for grape, after the seaweed's bulbous floats.
The Sargasso Sea is also known as "the floating desert". Although about one-third of the Atlantic's plankton is produced here, the Sargassum lacks the nutrients to attract commercially valuable fish. But many small marine animals, including tiny crabs, shrimp and octopuses, live on and among the sargassum, the rootless weed. Deeply connected to the weeds, many would sink and perish if they lost their grip. The Sargasso Sea is 5km (3 miles) deep, thus the sargassum grow by budding.
The Sargasso also is an international meeting place for eels. Drawn by unknown forces, the snakelike fish come from Europe, the Mediterranean and the United States to mate, spawn and die. From there, their larvae make the long journey back to continental waters. |
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More than 5 billion crayons are produced each year
More than 100 billion crayons have been produced so far. The first crayons consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. In the early 1900s, cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith developed a nontoxic wax crayon. Binney's wife, Alice, attached the French word for chalk, craie, with "ola," from oily, to form the Crayola name. Their first box of Crayola crayons were sold for a nickel in 1903.
The first Crayola crayons came in a box of eight colours: black, blue, brown, green, orange, purple, red and yellow. By 1957, 40 new colours were introduced. Today there are more than 120 crayon colours, including Atomic Tangerine, Blizzard Blue, Mango Tango, Outrageous Orange, Laser Lemon, Screamin' Green and Shocking Pink. Over 5 billion crayons are produced each year. |
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Bird barks instead of sings!
The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn't sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the 20th Century.
There also are dogs that do not bark! The basenji, smallish dog with a silky copper coat, does not bark. Instead, it yodels when it get excited. Wild dogs like the African Wild Dog also do not bark. |
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Do penguins topple over while gazing at aeroplanes?
During the 1982 Falklands war British pilots reported that penguins toppled over backward while gazing at the planes. British navy pilots were then banned from flying low over penguin colonies. It led to a UK government study of the penguin-toppling effect. For seventeen days two helicopters were flown from varying directions and heights over the penguins. The result? It's official: penguins do not topple over while gazing at aeroplanes.
Penguins
There are 18 species of penguins. The largest of these is the Emperor penguin. Male Emperor penguins grow up to 1,2m (4 ft) tall and can dive down to depths of 265m (870 ft). Their bodies are kept warm by a thick layer of fat but to increase body heat they comb their feathers to trap air in them. All species of penguins live south of the Equator, but only six live in Antarctica. There are no penguins in the North Pole. |
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Here are a few interesting pieces:
- American's consume about 100 acres of pizza per day
- It's estimated that a plastic container will not decompose for as long as 50,000 years
- The only part of the human anatomy that has no blood supply is the cornea
- Penguins have an organ above their eyes that changes seawater to freshwater
- A body temperature of over 42 degrees is fatal
- The skin of baby mice is so transparent that you can see the milk flowing into them as they suckle
- 48 teaspoons make up one cup
- Your body makes a new lining for your stomach every 3 days
- Cabbage is 91% water
- Cows, rice fields and garbage dumps are the largest producers on methane gas
- The statuette on the Rolls Royce is called the Spirit of Ecstasy.
- In ancient times, parsley wreaths were used to ward off drunkenness.
- A boeing 747 plane hold about 216 846 litres of fuel.
- The garfish has green bones
- Hair grows slowest at night
- The skeleton of a 70kg body weighs about 13kg
- If you have ozostomia, you are suffering from halitosis, or bad breath.
- A woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear when she becomes pregnant.
- Ice cream was invented in China around 2000BC
- The top cork-producing countries in the world are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
- A "vamp" is the upper front top of a shoe
- A group of foxes is called a skulk
- Teeth are the only parts of a human body that can't repair themselves
- Only one in 1000 animals born in the sea grow to maturity.
- If all the gold suspended in the world's seawater were mined, each person on Earth would receive about 4kg
- When born, the white whale is black
- The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to it's own body size is the Kiwi
- When first born, a shrimp is male. Over time it gradually develops into a female.
- Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world.
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Most words that start with the letters "sn" have something to do with the nose, and most words that pertain to the nose, start with "sn".
Some may be a little obscurely related, like snooze - when you snooze you may snore because you're not breathing properly through your nose. Snooty and snob give the impression of sticking your nose up at someone or something. Sneer and snarl are nasal sounds. The relationship may be vague, but it's still there. Some words aren't related at all, like snooker, but they are the minority. The list is interesting.
Example words:
- sneeze
- sniffle
- snort
- snuffle
- sniff
- snuff
- snore
- snub
- snob
- snout
- snorkle
- snooze
- snooty
- sneer
- snarl
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We all know what a kangaroo, wallaby, koala, wombat, echidna, and platypus are. As if those names weren't strange enough, look these ones up...
Cuscus, Bettong, Pademelon, Quokka, Potoroo, Quoll, Mulgara, Ampurta, Kaluta, Kowari, Dunnart, Kultarr, Planigale, Ningauis, Numbat, Bandicoot, Bilby.
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"I am free of all prejudices - I hate everyone equally" - W.C. Fields
- possibly not a good thing lol.
"I would have made a good pope" Richard Nixon
- A former president as pope....not sure about that one lol.
"How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties if cheese." Charles De Gaulle
- What a strange thing to say.....
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up" Muhammad Ali
MY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Why do our feet smell and our noses run??????
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