Interesting Facts

[Bassn Blvd]

I was browsing the web for a certain topic when I came across a site for interesting facts.  I'm too lazy to verify the accuracy so I'll leave that task to yall.

 Here are a few to start with.  I'll post more later if all goes well.

* If all retired US ships that now serve as memorials were used to form a new navy, it would rank as the third largest in the world.

* In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

* Married women could not view the Olympic Games in ancient Greece under penalty of death.

* The first sound recording ever made: Mary Had a Little Lamb in 1877.

* In the 1800's anyone in England who unsuccessfully attempted suicide faced the death penalty.

* Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

* In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000.

* Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S. but technically it's number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the union.

* Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

* There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S.

* More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases.

* The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).

* In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.

* The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.

* In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's), and nonannouncement (six n's).

* The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

* The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.

* A moment is defined as zero seconds long.

* The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously.

 

* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

* The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.

* There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!

* Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

* Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter E! Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions!

* Check this out, look at your keyboard, the only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters is typewriter.

* The first novel ever written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

* It's estimated that more than 6 billion copies of The Bible have been printed.

* The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States.

* Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye!

* The first TV couple to sleep in the same bed was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

* Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing.

* The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.

*Mary Todd Lincoln claimed she was haunted during her life, and sewed money into clothes to foil the invisible thieves.

* In 1841, the 8th 9th and 10th presidents served in office all in one year. They were Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler.

* Calvin Coolidge is the only president born on July 4th, in 1872.

* The only man to ever be President and Vice-President but never be elected to either was Gerald Ford.

* George Washington's salary as President was $25,000 a year.

* On July 4, 1826, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away.

* M&M's stands for the names of Forrest Mars, Sr., the candymaker and his associate Bruce Murrie.

* Dixie which was a popular song among the Confederates during the Civil War, was written by a Northerner named Dam Emmett.

* After Custer's Last Stand, Sioux Indian leader Chief Sitting Bull became an entertainer and toured the country with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

* Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children.

* Mozart never went to school.

* Smokey The Bear's original name was Hotfoot Teddy.

* Queen Elizabeth was an 18 year old mechanic in the English military.

* The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust.

* There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

* Coca-cola was originally green.

* Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

* The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.

* Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

* Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a day.

* 80% of people eat their corn on-the-cob in circles rather than side to side.

* If you took all the hen's eggs laid in America for 1 year and laid them end to end, they'd circle the earth 100 times.

* The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It To Beaver.

* One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

* The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.

* Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.

* The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

* Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.

* 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

* The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.

* Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!

* Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.

* Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.

* There is a city called Rome on every Continent.

* We don't know if there's a Heaven on earth, but there is a Hell, it's a town in Norway. Also, there is a Hell in Michigan, and to exit the area you must go through Angel's Pass to get to Monk's Road. Yet another Hell is in the Grand Cayman Islands.

[srv1990]

Assuming these can be verified, this would be a great site to use when developing questions for a Trivia Night.

[1inStripes]

* In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass

My dermatologist is Dr. Rash although Im switching to a different one in the same office there now.

[Maxximus Redneckus]

* In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass

My dermatologist is Dr. Rash although Im switching to a different one in the same office there now.

You just LOST 30 man points ;D

[SirSnookalot]

Hell Michigan is a mecca for magicians, they have many festivals there.

[.dsaavedra.]

i found the ones about grammar the most interesting

[Olebiker]

My wife's gynecologist back in Louisville was Dr. Hyman.  There was also a Dr. Needleman in Louisville.

As to the cabbage leaves under the Bambino's hat - bicycle racers in Europe used to do that too.

[Captain Obvious]

Floccinaucinihilipilification, Wheres that in the dictionary lol

[Bassn Blvd]

Here's the link if anyone is interested in reading them.

http://www.dumbfacts.com/

[1inStripes]

* In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass

My dermatologist is Dr. Rash although Im switching to a different one in the same office there now.

You just LOST 30 man points ;D

How so?  Of course, losing 30 still puts me way ahead of you.

[Tin]

* The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).

It is about an hour north of me, we call it Webster. There is a marina that has Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg written on its roof.

[KYntucky Warmouth]

My wife's gynecologist back in Louisville was Dr. Hyman. There was also a Dr. Needleman in Louisville.

As to the cabbage leaves under the Bambino's hat - bicycle racers in Europe used to do that too.

used to work at a hospital with a Dr. Payne who did pain management

also at a different hospital had a Dr. Legg that was an Orthopedic surgeon

[Bassn Blvd]

I work with a guy name Richard Rasch, aka Dick Rasch.

[Root beer]

I can verify the Hell Grand Cayman.  

[wagn]

* Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

That was the name of my cat. She was a very dumb cat.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Floccinaucinihilipilification, Wheres that in the dictionary lol

Captain Obvious

It's under "F"

;D

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

;D

It seems lately that we only need to step in once YOU get on the thread.  Seriously,............. enough, the immature crap needs to end, ....like TODAY

Thread cleaned.

[moby bass]

Glass bottom mugs were used so that as a man was draining his pint of ale, he could keep a watchful eye on the character sitting across from him.  Hence the term, Here's looking at you.