Now I won't lie, I harvested these from a website. However, I retain most of the little facts I come across so would be pleased to hear more from you to add to my growing head-junk.
I'll start then.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth are:-
Malboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser - in that order.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
No word in the English dictionary rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple (apart from borange, which is debatable)
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no-one knows why.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
A pack-a-day smoker will on average lose 2 teeth, every 10 years.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
Interesting things
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Gavin Scott
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Here's one which almost won me the pub quiz last week, if the rest of the team would have let me put Rosa Parks down as the final answer but that's another story...
What word preceeds tape, strip, and field.
And it's not "air". No Googling please!
I did watch a programme on Sky, can't remember what it's called, where they did prove that ducks had a very slight echo. But this is certainly one programme against the research of many others!
What word preceeds tape, strip, and field.
And it's not "air". No Googling please!
I did watch a programme on Sky, can't remember what it's called, where they did prove that ducks had a very slight echo. But this is certainly one programme against the research of many others!
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Magnetic.
Magnetic?rts wrote:Here's one which almost won me the pub quiz last week, if the rest of the team would have let me put Rosa Parks down as the final answer but that's another story...
What word preceeds tape, strip, and field.
And it's not "air". No Googling please!
I did watch a programme on Sky, can't remember what it's called, where they did prove that ducks had a very slight echo. But this is certainly one programme against the research of many others!
Damn, Gavin beat me to it by seconds!
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htmGavin Scott wrote:A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no-one knows why.
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The odd fact I like is that people who get married on a Saturday will usually have their Silver Wedding on a Tuesday.
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Danish apparently. Dutch is condoom.rts wrote:Svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel is the Dutch word for condom.
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Phonetically...Hoogie einabint mi flabba is Danish for "sanitary towel with wings".
I learned that from a Danish actress who was cast in Eldorado weeks before it got the chop.
EDIT: Although google suggests it is hygiejnisk håndklæde hos anskudt. So who knows.
I learned that from a Danish actress who was cast in Eldorado weeks before it got the chop.
EDIT: Although google suggests it is hygiejnisk håndklæde hos anskudt. So who knows.