Per the Oxford dictionary of English, the word
"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" appears as the longest
word in existence.
It is a disease of the lungs.
The term "French fries" is actually a misnomer. They
were invented in Belgium, not the country of France.
The moon of Earth circles the it in approximately
27.32 days.
The biggest seed on the planet is the
coconut.
The
Pacific Ocean and the moon of Earth have equal
volumes.
Mickey Mouse has just 4 fingers.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were room mates
in Harvard.
Leonardo da Vinci was able to write with 1 hand and
use the other to draw simultaneously.
Both of a cat's ears combined contain 64 muscles (32
each).
William Hall, an Englishman, drilled himself to death
in 1982 with a powerdrill. It took eight tries.
In one day in 1916, Rasputin the Russian mystic
was stabbed
repeatedly, poisoned and shot by assassins, yet still he lived. It was
the icy cold of a river that finally finished him off.
Nine in ten cab drivers in New York are fresh
immigrants.
The longest insects on record are the family of the
stick insects.
The Pharnacia kirbyi species, native to the Borneo rainforests have
been known to grow twenty inches in length.
Firehouses have stairways that circle because of the
old days when
horses were employed to pull the engines. Horses, which were kept on
ground level, learned how to walk up the stairs, so the stairs were
reconfigured to spiral.
Just one bird has nostrils on the tip of its bill:
the kiwi.
The first human fatality from a car
accident in the
U.S. occurred
when 68-year-old real estate agent Henry Bliss exited a street car in
New York City on Sept. 14, 1899, turned to help a female passenger. and
was struck dead by a cab..
Concrete is not as strong as a a human thigh bone.
Human tooth enamel is stronger than both.
In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as a type of medicine.
If all the skin on a human adult was stripped away
and put on a scale, it would weigh 6 lbs.
Space shuttle astronauts are forbidden from eating
any gas-causing foods, as flatulence causes injury to their space suits.
Cesar Ducornet, an 1800s artist, was known for
drawing with his feet; he didn't have arms.
The common lubricant known as WD-40 has a full name:
Water Displacement-Fortieth Attempt. It was perfected on the 40th try.
Acne is not uncommon among Chinese Crested canines.
If pearls are submerged in vinegar for a period of
time, they dissolve.
This is just an unusual list of real
names: Ima June Bugg (Chicago,
IL); Dr. Safety First
(Tulsa, Oklahoma); Menna Pause (Indianapolis, Indiana); Ure A. Pigg
(Portland, Oregon); E. Pluribus Eubanks (San Francisco, CA); Ima Hogg
(Houston, Texas); Ima Fisch
(Charlotte N.C); Pearl Harbor (Birmingham, Alabama); Serious Misconduct
(Welwyn, England); Eura Fisch (Charlotte N.C); General Error
(Pueblo,
Colorado); Honor Roll
(Birmingham, Alabama).
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