Did you Know? thread

[Dani]

Did you know i have to pee?

 

[Crusher]

clear or yellow?

 

[newtownbluebags]

Well apparently the others are not supposed to be asked. I wanted to organise my car today but had to come in because they had noone else to reception but me!!

can't your car organise itself??? :crazy: :lol:

 

[Crusher]

haven;t they heard of call diversion!

 

[newtownbluebags]

like a smoke screen for fones!

 

[RK]

Ahh not when your a receptionist, you are the call diversion!!!!

 

[Crusher]

*diverts all calls to someone who is on holidays*

 

[newtownbluebags]

did you know that cats can be trained to remove red crosses????

 

[Punkess]

- The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
- "Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
- Alexander the Great was an epileptic

 

[2 True Blues]

None of the above. yet I thought I was the king of trivial information as well.....But seriously some fascinating facts to add to my knowledge of the trivial for sure.....

 

[Eelementary]

Did you that, upon hearing the statement:

"No words in the English language rhyme with orange, purple or silver"

that the average person will instantly rack their brain to try and prove it wrong?

:lol:

 

[Punkess]

haha yeah i tried.

- An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
- Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
- The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’

 

[Punkess]

I also found Beadface and Facebed!!

 

[Eelementary]

:lol: Don't worry - I tried too! Most people will!


Did you know that the octopus does not have a brain?

 

[Punkess]

- After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
- Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
- A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

 

[2 True Blues]

I did the same...LMAO......Then read that the Macedonian Alex was an Epilectic. No wonder he fought so good with a sword in his grasp !!! LOL.........

 

[2 True Blues]

- After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
- Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
- A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

Jack is my boys name !

 

[Eelementary]

If you play "Maybe I'm Amazed" backwards, you get a great recipe for tomato soup...Apparently...

 

[Punkess]

Yummo. I like tomato soup...

And speaking of soup
- The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
- The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
- The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

 

[Eelementary]

Scientific fact: Eating Cheerios does NOT make you feel any cheerier.