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“Shirt” and “skirt” both derive from the same word. If that’s not sufficiently random, you’re certain to find something suitable on this thread. Continued from v. 2007.1.
Date: June 15, 2007
Categories: Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe
I need random factoids. Hmm. My mind is blank. (Hey, it worked!)
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Fergie’s real name is Stacy Ferguson
Will. I. Am’s real name is William Adams (surprise, surprise)
Wierd Al’s real name is Alfred Yankovic (duh)
Ciara’s real name is Ciara Harris
Nicole Shertzinger’s real name is too long to spell here
Gwen Stefani’s real name is Gwen Stefani
Ludacris’s real name is Christopher Bridges
Sean Paul’s real name is Sean Henriquez
Akon’s real name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam
Rihanna’s real name is Robyn Fenty
Nelly Furtado’s real name is Nelly Furtado
Justin Timberlake’s real name is Justin Timberlake
I just named my twelve favorite artists (will. i am. from Black Eyed Peas and Nicole from PCD). Is that random enough?
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The original title for the beatle’s song “yesterday” was scrambled eggs. The first line went, “scrambled eggs, oh my dear you have such lovely legs.”
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The origional name for the Ford Thuderbird was the Beaver
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Since frogs don’t notice minor temperature changes, you could freeze a frog or roast it to death without causing it any discomfort, provided you did it slowly enough.
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The Van Zyl’s golden mole has no eyes. More accurately, the eyes are under the skin. The ears, as well.
Also, it is critically endangered.
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The first song of Fall Out Boy’s first album is called Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Woudn’t Get Sued.
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6: Are you new?
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8 – I don’t know. She’s not on the who’s here page, but not on the Newcomers thread either.
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Ah, but she is on “Who’s Here.” She first posted under the name Julia.
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That’s whats so annoying about the who’s here page. If you don’t know their first blogname, it’s practically impossible to find them.
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If that sounded rude, sorry.
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11- Too true.
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(11, 13) Really? Doesn’t your browser let you search on a page? Safari for Macintosh has a handy “Find” command under the edit menu, and I’m sure that’s true of the PC browsers I use at the office. The keyboard command is usually either control-F (or command-F) or the F2 key.
Go to “Who’s Here” and try it. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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I use the control-F so much! I use Safari, and it’s probably my favorite tool on the entire program. I also like the tabbed browsing and the “bookmarks bar,” but the Find tool is really useful.
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The black part at the end of the cello bow is called the frog.
There are hundreds of kinds of cheese.
The Beatles were stoned at most of their movie filmings (well, I think you could have guessed that one). Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… I think that’s all for now.
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7-I really hate that all the really good Alternative groups have huge song names that are impossible if not rediculous to memorize. (This Ain’t a Scene, it’s an Arms Race; I Write Sins, Not Tragidies) and they also have huge names (Panic! At the Disco)
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None of this is random. I hate how people call things random when they aren’t. The human mind is incapable of true randomness.
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I can be random sometimes.
Hmm… the longest word in the English language (well, Webster’s third) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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2-Akon’s father is also a noted jazz pianist. I met him once.
17-As opposed
18-How pessimistic. How about “Arbitrary Factoids”?
Denmark is now Europe’s top producer of Greek feta.
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14 – I just recently discovered the wondors of ctrl+f and have not yet tried it on the who’s here page. *heads off* Thanks for the tip!
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I’m not that new, but I go on on spurts, which makes it appear that way, sometimes. Yeah, I haven’t been on in several months.
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19 – What does that word mean?
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Wow! Ctrl+F makes it so easy! I will never have any problems again! 
*is happy*
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(23) Check out previous discussions of the word here and here.
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There have been 120,932 posts on MuseBlog as of 3:44 PM 16 June 2007 MuseBlog time.
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18-What do you mean? Okay, here goes…
There have been 120,932 posts on MuseBlog as of 3:44 PM 16 June 2007 MuseBlog time. There are now more. That means that the blog, like living creatures, grows. Tus means(if your logic is wierd)that the blog is a living creature. That means that it needs food, unless it is a plant. It is not a plant, so it must need food. The only thing it reguarly gets are posts, so it must feed on posts. However, only WordPress eats posts, so WordPress is the living creature. It powers the blog, so the blog is a puppet. However, it grows, so… Okay, that wasn’t random, or a factoid, so… Ummmm… Darn. Can’t think of a random factoid. Darn. My mind is blank. Hmmmmmmmmm…
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I am sorry for popo. Must…see… if you must wait 15 seconds to…post…
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It’s true! “Sorry, you can post a new comment only once every 15 seconds. Patience, worthy MuseBlogger!” The Pushcart War took place in the future. Rellay!
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18 – It’s random if it’s unexpected. gorilla 5 spoon chuck outer year wikipedia hi lathargic. That was all random because you didn’t expect it. 
You didn’t exasfdpect that smhoew2iley or this random garble either, fkln42k5jndid you?
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29- I love the Pushcart War! But it took place in the fifties or something.
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31- I love that book! I thought like the 60s? Somewhere around there… I haven’t read it in forever.. I should re-read.
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32- Yeah. So should I. In fact, I’ll go put it on hold right now.
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Perfect numbers are numbers that, when all their divisors are added up, equal the number. Examples: 1+2+3=6. 1+2+4+7+14=28. How many can you find?
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19. Actually, I explained the longest word in Random Factoids 2007.1. You can check. It actually has over 1,000 letters.
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The okapi is most clostly related to the giraffe
Someone is legally considered a dwarf if they are 4′ 11″ or shorter
The smallest proportioned dwarves are primordial dwarves
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Birmingham has more canals than Venice.
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Marmalade was originally chewy, like toffee.
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31-It took place in the 1990s. The fifties must have been when it was written. My dad said when it was written, it took place far in the future. Half a century, I guess. But it did take place in the nineties.
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(31, 32, 39) According to Wikipedia, the 1964 book was originally set in 1976, but the date was moved up to 1986 and then to 1998 in later editions to keep the events in the future.
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19 – incidentally, that was also one of my alter egos on a previous alter ego thread.
23 – pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a potentially fatal disease caused by inhaling silicone dust from volcanic ash. i think. not sure.
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40 – Sounds like The Kid who Became President by Dan Gutman. Origionally set in 2000, it is now set in 2008 so it’s still about the future.
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20-Really? Awesome!!!!
19-Arbitary is more like it. Did I even pronounce that right? Alice?
Here’s something random! There is a big dispute between oldie leets and newbie leets wether + or 7 is T.
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43- Arbitrary? Or pronounce?
Why not both?
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Here is something random-
While Penguin blog pencil jelly pad camera lovely pencil-sharpener how frog for it’s mother.
All real words.
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34- Aren’t those the only two under a hundred? I remember reading about them somewhere.
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46 – Yes, 6 and 28 are the only perfect numbers under 100. :guilty grin: In fact, perfect numbers are extremely rare. The next perfect number is 496, then 8128.
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Johnny Weissmuller has played Tarzan in film more than any other actor.
Dum Dum Airport is in Calcutta.
Giraffes are the animals with the highest blood pressure.
The largest kidney stone on record weighed 1.36 kg.
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44- lol 
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48 – o_O thatza big kidney stone
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There are 18 ways to play “b” on the violin. I think.
The most common question tour guides of civil war battlefiels get is “Did the soldiers have to fight around all these memorials?”
Micropachycephalosaurus has the longest name of any dinosaur and yet it was only 20 centimeters (or maybe 20 inches) long.
I considered having the blog name “Gingersnap” instead of “violindino”
There’s a city in Alaska called “Unalaska”
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(3) Are you sure that’s true? Because I just read an interview with Paul McCartney that said he woke up with the words and tune to “yesterday” fresh in his head.
But if we’re onto Beatles factoids, the original name for “Eleanor Rigby” was “Miss Daisy Hawkins”
(17) Panic!At the Disco? “Really good”? *raised eyebrows*
The makers of Vegemite tried changing its name to Parwill for a while in response to their chief competetor, Marmite. (“Marmite but Parwill”).
51 is the number most commonly mistaken for being prime.
‘toodles’ (as a form of saying goodbye) comes from the French ” à tout à l’heure”, roughly translated as”see you later”.
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(3, 52) According to Wikipedia, the tune came to McCartney in a dream, and “Scrambled Eggs” was his working title until he came up with “yesterday.”
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your golden birthday is the year when the date of your birthday is the sme number as your age (eg. your turn 11 on november 11th) Its even better when like in the example its in the same numbered month but the luciest of all is when well let me show you an example 11-11-11 or november 11th 2011
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(54) Does your name refer to Urania, or to something else? Just curious.
(53) Songwriters often fill their tunes with nonsense lyrics until they write the real ones. I’ve heard that when the Gershwins were writing “I Got Rhythm,” the placeholder lyrics started out “Roly-poly / Eating solely / Ravioli…”
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51- I think that a whole chain of islands along with a tribe of people in Alaska are called Unalaska.
-The country code for Wales is 44.
-The aardvark isn’t related to the anteater, it’s closer to the manatee and the tenrec.
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(53) Aha. I see.
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-The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
-The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
-In Australia, there are twice as many kangaroos as there are people.
-Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
– Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
-The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
-The average person eats 8 spiders at night in their lifetime.
-Stewardesses is the longest word typed only with the left hand.
-Right-handed people live on average 9 years longer than left-handed people.
-The names of all the continents end with the same letter as the one they start with.
-A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.
-The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
-The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9.
-If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died of natural causes. If it has one front leg in the air, the person died from wounds received in battle. If it has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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According to legend, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was created by translating his name to Latin, spelling it backwards, and translating it back to English…or something like that.
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58- At least 3 of those facts are untrue. The spider one, the worlds youngest parents, and the statue bit.
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60 – I’ll say. The parents one is several years too old!
-The world’s youngest mother was 5. Her mother, at first, thought she was possesed with demons before she found out it was a baby in there. The baby survived.
-The world’s youngest mother of twins was 7. Both babies died at birth.
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61- Waaaay too young. That’s creepy. 5 and 7 year olds should have kids.
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(55) yes my name does refer to the mighty muse Urania (I guess I
spelled it wrong I not the worlds best speller)
there are more than a quarter million entries and 1,664 pages in the Websters Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language
factoid- an insegnifigant or trivial fact
(61 62) that is to creepy. kids that young shouldn’t have babies.
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62 – Did you mean “shouldn’t”?
There are 1,843,715 articles in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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63- I am, if not the world’s best speller, the most particular about spelling (at least on the blog). 
Therefore, I shall correct your spelling, along with everyone else’s. It’s insignificant.
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Does a duck say, “quackquackquack” or “whackwhackwhack”?
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64- Yeah. Or maybe I meant, “They should never have kids.”
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58- If the horse has all four legs in the air, the person died of magical causes.
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68- Wow! All I have to do is make a list of people who are active, and suddenly everyone who wasn’t on the list comes back!
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68- Amazing, isn’t it?
There are only two laws that have proved to be pretty consistant:
1. Murphey’s Law
2. The List Law- (the moment you finish a list, things are bound to change)
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70- Yeah, I’ve found that Law to be pretty accurate.
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= The Declaration of Independance was written on hemp paper.
= 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
= There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
= Celery has negative calories because it takes more calories to eat it than it actually has.
= The Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
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Scotsmen and their descendants make up half the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Unless it was more.
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=The Guinness World Records book is the mostly widely published copyrighted book.
=The Bible is the most widely published uncopyrighted book.
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72- No, it was written on parchment, i.e. dried animal skin.
The Incas all had the same blood type, O positive.
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Are we sure about the duck’s quack not echoing? I thought mythbusters did something on it, but I’m not sure.
-Potatoes came from Peru, where there’s a blue species.
-Yak’s milk is pink
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75- the final, formal copy was written on parhchment, but that didn’t happen until august.
only one person actually signed the declaration on july 4th.
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76. I’m not familiar with that episode of Mythbusters, but maybe you’re right. I got that fact in an email sent to me.
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I’m skeptical about anything I get by e-mail, and I almost never repeat it until I’ve checked it thoroughly.
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72 -the celery fact is false
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A ducks’ quack will “decay” as it travels, so it’ll be quieter when it comes back. The horse statue one is false too. Snopes.
-The population of the town of Bedrock in the Flinstones is 2,500
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the first soccer game was played with skulls.
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The first volleyball game was played with the previous losers’ heads.
74-Really? It’s kind of sad that everyone needs to know what other people do really really something.
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61-I don’t wanna know why they were having kids at that age! *RUNS AWAY FAST SCREAMING WITH ARMS OVER HEAD*
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I can hypnotize snakes.
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85- 
I can hypnotize myself!!! 
Actually, I just sort of doze off…But whatever!
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Hmm. I can hypnotize snakes, I have a strange scar shaped like a lightning bolt on my forehead…
Actually, I think anyone could hypnotize snakes.
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84 – I heard the fathers got arrested.
87 – You’re starting to freak us out now. Well, actually, you’re not, but that is sort of weird.
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88- I love freaking people out. It’s so much fun. And it is kind of weird. I’d never actually thought about it that way before, so it was kind of surprising.
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I can hypnotize baby bunnies. You just lay them on their back (it works better when you are holding them in your hands) and stroke their head. I also find that it works better with babies because you can actually get them on their back, and older rabbits squirm too much.
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90- Aww. I’ve done that.
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87- Really? About the scar?
61- No it wasn’t. That was just the youngest mother. The father was never known but I’m guessing it wasn’t a kid. I read about that story. The baby ( a boy) thought that she was his sister until he was ten when they told him the truth.
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92- Really. I was idiotic enough to try some strange stunt with concrete, and my plastic and glass necklace shattered between my forehead and the concrete. I was about six. Or maybe five.
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87-Do you wear glasses?
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94- No. And my hair is long and flat and brown.
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Did you know……..
· An alligator’s jaws, when biting, can apply up to 1,000 pounds of pressure per square inch?
· The bible never says there are three wise men, it only says there are three gifts?
· 21 states have names that end with the letter ‘a’?
· If Christopher Columbus, when he landed in the new world, immediately began borrowing money at the rate of $10,000 a minute, by today he would not even come close to borrowing the equivalent of the U.S. national debt?
· “Dreamt†is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt�
· Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors?
· Peanuts are legumes?
· Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable?
· There are only four words in English that end in “dousâ€, which are tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous?
· The sentence “In order to exceed you must proceed to succeed†contains the only three words in the English language that end in “ceed�
· The phrase “Blowzy frumps had quit vexing Jack†contains every letter of the alphabet?
· Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur?
· If you have the average bed, there are 6,000,000 dust mites living on it?
· “Bible†means “the book�
· In 1932, Nigeria Falls froze over?
· If people are asked to drink either a cup of spring water or a cup of city tap water, they will mostly choose spring water, even though scientists have noticed there are sometimes germs in natural water?
· A human can float better in quicksand than in water?
· Less than 5% of people can lick their elbows?
· And more than 90% of people will try to do it after reading that?
· There are more bacteria on your body then there are people on earth?
· Leonardo da Vinci drew the first design for the bicycle?
· If a human being kept being alive for 600 years, its face would gradually change to look like a Neanderthal?
· In the book 20,000 leagues under the sea author Jules Verne gave such an accurate description of the not-yet-invented periscope, that when it was invented, the inventor could not obtain a patent?
· Pumpkins are fruits?
· And so are green beans, snap peas, cucumbers, zucchinis, bell peppers, acorn squashes, and butternut squashes?
· The last word in the English dictionary is “zyzzyvaâ€, which is the genus of a cockroach?
· “Strengths†is the only 9-letter word in the English language to contain only one vowel?
· And that queue is the only 5-letter word in the English language to contain only one consonant?
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96- The only ones I knew before reading that were
· Peanuts are legumes
· “Bible†means “the bookâ€
· Pumpkins are fruits
And so are green beans, snap peas, cucumbers, zucchinis, bell peppers, acorn squashes, and butternut squashes
On the last two, those are obvious. A fruit is anything that has a seed (or many seeds) inside it. A vegetable is either leafy or a root. (I think.)
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I can’t lick my elbows! My life is now worthless… *strains with tongue hanging out.*
I can lick my chin. can you?
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Did you know…..
· A study showed that Encyclopedia Britannica has an average of over two incorrect facts per article?
· The paragraph “Named undemoninationally rebel, I rile beryl? La, no, I tan. I’m, O Ned, nude, man,†can be spelled the same forwards or backwards?
· And that a word, sentence, phrase, or paragraph that can be spelled forwards or backwards is called a palindrome?
· And that the name for a person who is addicted to palindromes is “ciloholicâ€, a word that is also a palindrome?
· Antarctica wasn’t discovered until 1812?
· The first moon landing was only 66 years after the first flight by the Wright Brothers?
· Wyoming, the least populous state, was the first state to give women the right to vote?
· Most nocturnal animals can’t see red very well?
· A flute is considered a woodwind instrument?
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99-I didn’t know some of those!
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I only knew this one:
· That a word, sentence, phrase, or paragraph that can be spelled forwards or backwards is called a palindrome
But I know other palindromes. “Madam, I’m Adam,” is a famous one. Here’s one: “A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!”
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No lemon, no melon
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I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad, am I?
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Betty Crocker is entirely fictional.
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But her cakes are real.
My favorite palindrome is one I saw in Boy’s Life magazine ‘way back in the Pleistocene epoch: See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts no medieval sees. I liked it because it was melodramatic and contained not a single palindromic word. I thought that was classy.
Can’t you imagine Voldemort saying something like that?
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105- Sees is a palindromic word.
Trivia: What is the only precious stone that is admired for it’s flaws?
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106. Turquois?
Wolves and swans mate for life.
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(106) You’re right! “Sees” is a palindrome on its own. But it doesn’t function as a stand-alone palindrome in the sentence, because going in one direction the second “s” turns into the first “s” in “slave.” Classy.
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pika are cute
I know that’s not a factoid but an opinion but it was sufficiently random right?
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106- Emerald.
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another palindrome is, “go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.”
My middle name, Aviva, is also a palindrome. It means springtime in hebrew.
In coloial times, boys and girls were dressed exactly alike untill the age of about 7.
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106 – The pearl?
111 – That SO should be Garfield’s catchfrase.
Palindromes……..
No devil lived on.
If I had a hi-fi…
Amy, must I jujitsu my ma?
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None of you are right.
111- l’ve heard that. There’s a Weird al song called “Bob” that consists only of palindromes, and that’s in it.
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The only precious stone admired for it’s flaws . . . Opal?
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Sentence made up entirely of palindromic words.
Lil’ Bob sees a boob.
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114- Nope.
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Hitler was a vegetarian.
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116 – What is it then?
117 – What the!?!?
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(106, 110) Emerald is correct. The precious flaws (cracks and ingrown crystals) are called jardin, pronounced the French way. I wrote about them in the October 1997 issue of Muse.
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119- Which is how I knew. :smug:
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Chinese fortune cookies were an American invention. In China they were advertised as ‘Genuine American Fortune Cookies.”
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Maybe I said this before, but bird legs go in the same “direction” as ours, they are not backwards…
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118- Jade.
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119- Out of curiosity, how would you pronounce that? I’m not taking french, but I find myself liking that word. Didn’t get that issue, sadly.
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119-
Hey! It was my question! And just because l didn’t know about emerald doesn’t mean jade isn’t!
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The real name of Fall Out Boy’s song Our Lawer made us Change the Name of This Song….. was My name is David Ruffin and These are the Temptations.
There was a Monty Python skit about marshmallows playing tennis and Englishmen turning Scottish, in which a man was name Harold Potter. My dad thinks that’s where JK Rowling got Harry Potter, since Monty Python is British.
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