heirflick Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! Most lipstick contains fish scales! Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing! One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen! It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein! Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building! If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! Clinophobia is the fear of beds! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! Porcupines float in water! Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"! The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches! The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins! The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! .....hope this comes up at the next table quiz!! Quote
Broithe Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Laois is the only county in Ireland that does not border a county with a maritime coastline. Quote
heirflick Posted February 25, 2014 Author Posted February 25, 2014 the mother -in-law could saw your nuts off by saying 'i love you'!!! ......its true! Quote
UP6936 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Specifically the gum was juicy fruit. I believe the first pack bought with a barcode is in the Smithsonian museum Quote
jhb171achill Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 "Did you know you have four miles of intestines inside your stomach?" (Interesting Facts; John Cleese & Peter Cook) Quote
Broithe Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Liquid Paper correction fluid was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. Quote
Garfield Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 The Great Northern Railway's No. 85 ('Merlin') and Rolls Royce's famous Merlin aircraft engine are both named after a bird of prey, not the mythical English magician. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(bird) Quote
Broithe Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 The Great Northern Railway's No. 85 ('Merlin') and Rolls Royce's famous Merlin aircraft engine are both named after a bird of prey, not the mythical English magician. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(bird) Rolls Royce piston aero-engines were generally named after birds of prey - Peregrine, Kestrel, Griffon, Vulture, etc. Their turbine engines were named after rivers - Trent, Dart, Avon, Spey, etc. Quote
heirflick Posted March 21, 2014 Author Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month.... because there isn’t one. i dont make up this crap yaknow....http://www.interestingfacts.net/ Edited March 21, 2014 by heirflick Quote
WRENNEIRE Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) I think there are a few Shem Front is one and the second has only 4 letters (hunt) Another 4 lettered one comes to mind but I will leave it to yourself Its also another word for Mother in Law:mad: Edited March 21, 2014 by WRENNEIRE Quote
heirflick Posted March 21, 2014 Author Posted March 21, 2014 wash out your mouth young Bracken! Quote
WRENNEIRE Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Runt, Shem But I like the way you are thinking................ Quote
WRENNEIRE Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 The country code for Russia is "007"......... Quote
Broithe Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 The country code for Russia is "007"......... You are a sh*te ......... for shore eyesh. Ha ha - the site's censor won't allow that.... Quote
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