Aug 17, 2006
DidYouKnow
| That A Giraff Only Has 7 Bones In Its Neck There Is No Proper Name For The Inside Of Your Elbow Or The Back Of Your Knee Clinophobia is the fear of beds The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet The original game of "Monopoly©" was circular. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction© are stuck on 4:20. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. Mr. Snuffleupagas'™ first name was Alyoisus™. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures© logo. Shakespeare™ invented the word "assassination" and "bump." More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. Wilma Flintstone's™ maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal™, and Betty Rubble's™ Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker™. 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, here, ere, therein, herein. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. 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. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Moon™ was Buzz Aldrin's™ mother's maiden name. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. Both Hitler™ and Napoleon™ were missing one testicle. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum©. Leonardo Da Vinci™ invented the scissors No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. |
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