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Not a random fact, but it kinda fits in with what we're talking about. "Darn it, I can't find my (fill in the blank)! And of course, I'd bet anything that it'll be in the very last place I look."

I've heard that so many times!! If you've found it why keep looking?

Coincidentally, my uncle just sent me this list:

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

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

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On an old Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

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

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Dan, that binary thing used to be my siggy line!

So here's my addition: There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't.

Processed cheese slices are made of an edible plastic.

Cars sold in Canada are required to pass an emergency moose swerving test.




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I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

Ah, two more of my favorite facts. And dno't froegt, taht sutdy was dnoe by Cmabirgde Uvniesrtiy.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

Juat thought of something else: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of...











long words

Did you konw taht, in the wteitrn Egilsnh lggaunae, wdors are ifdnieetid olny by tehir fisrt and lsat lteter? The leetrts in the mdilde of any wrod can be in any rdnoam oedrr and slitl be raed by the bairn as the itedennd wrod. Cool, inst it?

Floccinaucinihilipilification (argh, can't spell words this long...) is still longer than antidisestablishmentarianism.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

I thought the longest word was antidisestablishmentarianism. Maybe that's just the longest non-scientific word.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

http://www.fishprofiles.com/interactive/forums/thread.asp?id=35299

That thread has a bunch of random facts, etc.

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They shade the glow of it with their mossy-misty costumes,
They wear masks of silk, porcelain, brass, and silver,
So as not to mislead with their own, ordinary faces.

Amino acid sequences aren't words to me.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

Actually, if we are including scientific terms, the longest generally accepted word is ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLSERYLPROLYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLSERYLSERYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLALANYLASPARTYLPROLYLISOLEUCYL GLUTAMYLLEUCYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLVALYLCYSTEINYLTHREONYLSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLALANYLARGINYL THREONYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLVALYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLLYSYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLTHREONYLVALYLARGINYLP HENYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCYLASPARTYLVALYLTYROSYLLYSYLVALYLTYROSYLARGINYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLVALYLLEUCYLASPARTYLPROLYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLALANYLLEUCYLLEUCYL GLYCYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYLASPARTYLTHREONYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLISOLEUCYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLVALYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLPROLYLTHREONYLTHR EONYLALANYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLLEUCYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLARGINYLARGINYLVALYLASPARTYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLVALYLALANYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLSERYLALANYLASPARAGINYLISOLE UCYLASPARAGINYLLEUCYLVALYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLVALYLARGINYLGLYCYLTHREONYLGLYCYLLEUCYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMYLSER YLMETHIONYLSERYLGLYCYLLEUCYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLTHREONYLSERYLALANYLPROLYLALANYLSERINE.

It is an abbreviated amino acid sequence for the Dahlemense Strain of the tobacco mosiac virus. The actual sequence is much, much longer.

Enjoy.

Joe Potato


Edit: Sorry for the capitals, but I obviously just cut and paste it, as I don't feel like spending 10 minutes retyping it.

[span class="edited"][Edited by Joe Potato 2004-08-17 17:30][/span]

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis (sp? hehe). The only word as long is the plural, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeoses.

People tell me to take a breath when I give this fact.:%)

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

More than half of the people in the u.s. would rather fold there toliet paper than wad it.]

Enjoy and feel free to add one of your own

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*A recent survey suggests that more people are born on October 5 in the United States than any other day.
*The least common birth date in the U.S. is May 22nd.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

dan

There are 10 types of people:

Those who understand binary

Those who don't!

56% of all statistics are made up on the spot

The Great Wall of China cannot actually be seen from space without powerful optical aids.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

acctually, 0% of statistics are meaningless, just 82% is USELESS

The average American newspaper is written only at the 5th grade reading level.

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

13% of persian cats are allergic to themselves.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."