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20 (more) interesting & useless facts. Enjoy.
1. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
2. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
3. A group of ravens is called a murder.
4. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
5. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
6. Once a bull has impregnated a cow, it will never impregnate that same cow again.
7. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
8. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." Hey it mentions Scarborough, Scarborough's cool
9. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
10. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
11. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
12. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
13. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
14. The Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.
15. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. Well now you know the international dialing code if you wanna ring me. ^_^
16. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
17. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland. How does that work out???
18. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
19. Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
20. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
1. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
2. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
3. A group of ravens is called a murder.
4. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
5. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
6. Once a bull has impregnated a cow, it will never impregnate that same cow again.
7. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
8. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." Hey it mentions Scarborough, Scarborough's cool
9. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
10. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
11. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
12. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
13. The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
14. The Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.
15. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. Well now you know the international dialing code if you wanna ring me. ^_^
16. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
17. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland. How does that work out???
18. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
19. Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
20. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
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Yes but pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and other scientific terms aren't really considered words else another (which is 1,000 some letter and is some sort of protein) would be said longest. Also if any sort of DNA was "decoded" and written that would then make THOSE the longest. Ha. Ha. Sorry. Critic here.