2006-08-17 23:35:31 · 6 answers · asked by Clarisse 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
In a history book.
2006-08-17 23:41:01 · answer #1 · answered by Love2Sew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-18 06:44:01 · answer #2 · answered by Sindebad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trivia
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
10. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
16. Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula"
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
23. During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
24. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
28. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
32. The "Sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick" is said to be the toughest tounge twister in the English language
33. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
36. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
37. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
38. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints get compressed during the day.
39. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
40. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
41. The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
42. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
43. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
44. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
45. Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
46. Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
47. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
48. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
49. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
50. It is impossible to lick your elbow. [About 75% of people who read this try it]
51. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
52. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat your cup of coffee
53. The colder the rooms you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
54. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
55. The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
56. A ducks quack doesn’t echo and nobody knows why
57. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
58. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
59. The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
60. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
61. A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
62. Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
63. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
64. The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
65. A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
66. A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
67. If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib and if you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die if you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out
68. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
((((The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanoes". It was originally postulated by Everett M. Smith, simply to serve as the longest English word, but has been used in several sources as an approximation of its originally intended definition. The plural of this word, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses is equally long.)))))))
2006-08-18 06:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by Dumbledore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the game "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiago?"
2006-08-18 06:45:46 · answer #4 · answered by Alex S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you looked around this very site?!
2006-08-18 06:42:40 · answer #5 · answered by altgrave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
internet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
2006-08-18 06:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by laviet09 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋