Useless but Amusing Fact Competition

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by neilegend

origanally there were FOUR monkeys and the last was "do no evil" , it was signified with its hands over its crotch!

Is that true :?:

[Nemisis]

Originally Posted by neilegend

origanally there were FOUR monkeys and the last was "do no evil" , it was signified with its hands over its crotch!

Really :?:

Originally Posted by Nemisis

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor. :!:

they still do don't they??

[madcat]

The W is the only letter in the English language to have 3 syllables.


MadCat

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by madcat

The W is the only letter in the English language to have 3 syllables.


MadCat

I never realised that until you pointed it out

[madcat]

Alice Cooper pointed it out on his Breakfast show on Planet Rock - an excellent DAB radio station.

I can't take credit for some one else's fact!!


MadCat

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

The phrase "Rule of thumb" comes from an old law stating that a man could not beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb.

If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by parker

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

The phrase "Rule of thumb" comes from an old law stating that a man could not beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb.

If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

They are pretty good, I'll give you 250 Tokens ;-)

Mike...

Thanks! Just wanted to share a couple more, just got an email filled with them!

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Swans are the only birds with penises. (reminded of this one by the elephant post)

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand


:-P I have a love for useless facts, my husband thiks Im strange

[Benny]

Originally Posted by parker

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Swans are the only birds with penises. (reminded of this one by the elephant post)

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand

The first is probably true, the second is, but the third and fourth are wrong!

There are two whole families of birds that have a penis: Anatidae (waterfowl like ducks, geese and swans) and Paleognathae (larger flightless birds like the emu, ostrich and kiwi).

I think 101 is the lowest natural number that requires the letter "a" to spell it in English ;-)