Danegirl2208
07-10-2006, 03:37 AM
Here are some completly useless facts to fill your mind with ;)
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.