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Posted by bassaholix on Aug-19-2003 06:16:

Weird, funny and cool trivia...

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.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

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.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

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.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand

Posted by JohnSmith on Aug-19-2003 07:42:

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Originally posted by bassaholix
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

bullshit:

click for the "american connection" which has nothing to do with their flag
do you really think canada would ever put an american flag on our bill?

check here if you still don't believe me:
http://66.165.133.65/business/money/redensign.asp

quote:
Originally posted by bassaholix
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

you never heard of a purple nurple?

Posted by Fundamental on Aug-19-2003 09:38:

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Originally posted by bassaholix
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Iodous - Pertaining to or containing iodine.

Posted by Unknown DJ on Aug-19-2003 13:25:

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Originally posted by JohnSmith
bullshit:

click for the "american connection" which has nothing to do with their flag
do you really think canada would ever put an american flag on our bill?

check here if you still don't believe me:
http://66.165.133.65/business/money/redensign.asp

you never heard of a purple nurple?

isnt that the queen of england on that note?

Posted by Linx_da_cat on Aug-19-2003 13:49:

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Originally posted by Unknown DJ
isnt that the queen of england on that note?

canada used to be a part of the british commonwealth until it became a fully independent country sometime in the 1900s.

Posted by daffodil on Aug-19-2003 15:16:

Dolphins are the only animal except for humans that have sex for pleasure.

Platypuses are WEIRD: they are the only mammals to lay eggs and they have no nipples. Milk just drips from holes in the skin.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the most mini-golf courses per area in the U.S. At last count, there were 47 in a 60 mile radius.

Posted by Cobalt on Aug-19-2003 15:56:

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Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

Looked that one up. Not true. New Jersey doesn't even produce two-thirds of California's eggplant crop.

Hmm. How many others are questionable?

Posted by elena on Aug-19-2003 18:02:

arent these called facts?

Posted by astroboy on Aug-20-2003 14:38:

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Originally posted by bassaholix
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

This has also been disproved. You can try it yourself, if you wear a white shirt every time you feed your goldfish and always put the food in the same part of the aquarium, any time anyone in white approaches the aquarium the fish will swim to the same spot where you normally feed them.

Posted by sash on Aug-20-2003 14:50:

i have a pirate copy golf ball with only 335 dimples

Posted by MrSquirrel on Aug-20-2003 22:52:

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Originally posted by Linx_da_cat
canada used to be a part of the british commonwealth until it became a fully independent country sometime in the 1900s.

They are still an independent member of the Commonwealth....at least they were last time I checked.

The Queen of England is on the money because she is the Head of State....in all members of the Commonwealth there is a deFacto H.O.S. who my research tells me currently is:

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson

But yes, Canada is an independent country with her own laws and customs.

quote:
Originally posted by daffodil
Platypuses are WEIRD: they are the only mammals to lay eggs and they have no nipples. Milk just drips from holes in the skin.

There are 2 Echinoderms (mammals who lay eggs) the other, also in Australia is the Echidna (spiny anteater)

Yes platypi are weird...they are venomous as well.

MrS

Posted by daffodil on Aug-21-2003 14:57:

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel
There are 2 Echinoderms (mammals who lay eggs) the other, also in Australia is the Echidna (spiny anteater)

i don't know anything about spiny anteaters, but i do know echinoderms are part of invertebrate phylum (echinodermata) that include sand dollars, starfish and the ever charming sea cucumber.

if i remember correctly, they are the phylum of invertebrates most closely related to vertebrates because when the embryonic sphere of cells forms its first infolding, that hole becomes the anus, like vertebrates. in most invertebrates, the first infolding becomes the mouth.

(i'd like to thank dr. smallwood for the wealth of biology trivia he provided me so long ago.)

Posted by MrSquirrel on Aug-21-2003 22:21:

Damn......I stand corrected they are Monotremes

I have NO idea why I thought they were echinoderms.

Sigh.....I should have double checked to begin with.

MrS

Posted by DeE420 on Aug-21-2003 22:24:

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All the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20? Not true. I've heard that before, and the only time that a clock is actually visible, it is set to 7:22

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Aug-21-2003 22:29:

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Not true. I've heard that before, and the only time that a clock is actually visible, it is set to 7:22

yup ur rite. i hav this no dvd, and last time i watched it i thought hmm.. i'll keep an eye out for the clocks, and sure enuf, it werent set to 4.20

Posted by joeh on Aug-21-2003 22:58:

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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Untrue.

The purpose of the speaker is to insure that order is kept in the house of commons. If a member of parliment is saying something prohibited (such as directly calling another member a liar), then the speaker will interupt that memeber and tell them to stop.

Posted by MrSquirrel on Aug-21-2003 23:09:

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Originally posted by joeh152
Untrue.

The purpose of the speaker is to insure that order is kept in the house of commons. If a member of parliment is saying something prohibited (such as directly calling another member a liar), then the speaker will interupt that memeber and tell them to stop.

Just wondering....is the Speaker in the House of Commons also an elected MP or are they an "outsider"?

MrS

Posted by joeh on Aug-21-2003 23:25:

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel
Just wondering....is the Speaker in the House of Commons also an elected MP or are they an "outsider"?

MrS

It is my understanding that the speaker is an elected MP. After a general election, at the start of the new parliament there is a vote amongst the MP's for a speaker.

Once elected a speaker ceases to represent any political party, but remains a MP. At the next general election they run again to be an MP in their local constituency. It is customary for the political parties not to run a candidate for that seat.

When the new parliament begins after the election, I believe they have another vote for speaker, I think that it would be very rare for that speaker to loose the vote to someone else. The speaker previous to the one now was in the job for some years, and only was replaced when they retired.