Post by: Lucifer on September 13, 2019, 04:03:06 AM
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
6. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
8. During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries…)
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14 The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’ s “Born in the USA.”
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Post by: Jim Logajan on September 13, 2019, 05:08:20 AM
7 I learned as a kid, as would anyone who has been exposed to carpentry.
19 is not likely, though reminds me of a bunch of Spoonerisms.
The rest are interesting, if dubious, but remind me of politics anyway. :)
Post by: Little Joe on September 13, 2019, 07:04:50 AM
6 is false.The only way it reminded me of politics is the fact that you know that someone is going to argue about them.
7 I learned as a kid, as would anyone who has been exposed to carpentry.
19 is not likely, though reminds me of a bunch of Spoonerisms.
The rest are interesting, if dubious, but remind me of politics anyway. :)
Post by: Rush on September 13, 2019, 11:07:47 AM
The only way it reminded me of politics is the fact that you know that someone is going to argue about them.
26 really? I thought onions made you cry because they release gaseous sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide which irritate your eyes. How does chewing gum stop that?
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on September 13, 2019, 11:17:38 AM
26 really? I thought onions made you cry because they release gaseous sulfuric acid and hydrogen sulfide which irritate your eyes. How does chewing gum stop that?
https://www.quora.com/How-does-chewing-gum-while-peeling-onions-stop-a-person-from-crying
"Onions contain an unstable chemical known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. When an onion is cut, this chemical is released into the air. It irritates the lachrymal glands, causing them to excrete tears.Chewing gum while cutting onions prevents tears by forcing you to breathe through your mouth. This disperses the irritant so that a significantly smaller amount reaches the lachrymal glands, preventing them from being irritated enough to release tears."
Post by: Rush on September 13, 2019, 12:46:42 PM
https://www.quora.com/How-does-chewing-gum-while-peeling-onions-stop-a-person-from-crying
"Onions contain an unstable chemical known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. When an onion is cut, this chemical is released into the air. It irritates the lachrymal glands, causing them to excrete tears.Chewing gum while cutting onions prevents tears by forcing you to breathe through your mouth. This disperses the irritant so that a significantly smaller amount reaches the lachrymal glands, preventing them from being irritated enough to release tears."
How come you don't make tears when you breath through your mouth? I don't understand.
Post by: nddons on September 13, 2019, 12:59:46 PM
How come you don't make tears when you breath through your mouth? I don't understand.Racist!
Oh, I thought we were back in politics.
Post by: Lucifer on September 13, 2019, 03:27:24 PM
6 is false.
7 I learned as a kid, as would anyone who has been exposed to carpentry.
19 is not likely, though reminds me of a bunch of Spoonerisms.
The rest are interesting, if dubious, but remind me of politics anyway. :)
Bet you are the life of the party.......... ::)
Post by: Jim Logajan on September 13, 2019, 05:20:09 PM
Bet you are the life of the party.......... ::)SPOONERISMS (CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN HEARD):
• At a wedding: "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride."
• "Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."
• "The Lord is a shoving leopard" (Loving shepherd).
• "A well-boiled icicle" for "well-oiled bicycle."
• "I have in my bosom a half-warmed fish" (for half-formed wish), supposedly said in a speech to Queen Victoria.
• A toast to "our queer old dean" instead of to "our dear old Queen."
• Upon dropping his hat: "Will nobody pat my hiccup?"
• "Go and shake a tower" (Go and take a shower).
• Paying a visit to a college official: "Is the bean dizzy?"
• "You will leave by the town drain."
• When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out.
• "Such Bulgarians should be vanished..." (Such vulgarians should be banished).
• Addressing farmers as "ye noble tons of soil".
• "You have tasted a whole worm" (to a lazy student).
• "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer."
• And, the classic: "Mardon me padom, you are occupewing my pie. May I sew you to another sheet?"
Post by: azure on September 14, 2019, 07:17:10 AM
6 is false.
7 I learned as a kid, as would anyone who has been exposed to carpentry.
19 is not likely, though reminds me of a bunch of Spoonerisms.
The rest are interesting, if dubious, but remind me of politics anyway. :)
19 is definitely false. I used to think that, too, but it's not true.
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/02/butterfly.html (https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/02/butterfly.html)
Edit: I had my doubts about 14 too and so looked it up... also false. Peter Pan definitely caused the name's popularity to rise, but it seems to be of Welsh origin and dates from some earlier time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy)
Post by: Anthony on September 14, 2019, 07:56:52 AM