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Things You Should Know But Probably Don't!



Robot Chicken

Seriously?
Jul 5, 2003
13,154
Chicken World
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton..

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

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. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time, hence, multi-tasking was invented.)

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. 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.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher..

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

33. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to jail."
 
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Robot Chicken

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Jul 5, 2003
13,154
Chicken World
Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing perfectly to rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).

The principle of a half-rhyme in these cases is quite simple. Whereas a full and stressed rhyme (e.g. hand / stand) or even an unstressed rhyme (such as handing / standing) contain vowels that are common to both words, a half-rhyme like orange / lozenge or silver / salver (technically speaking, pararhymes) has obvious differences between vowels in certain syllables.
 


Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
I don't see how thats a "half rhyme" unless you speak like a wanker with a poker up your arse, to be honest. going on spelling is pedantic, they rhyme on pronounciation in a normal accent.
 
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Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,147
Location Location
Quite clearly, "salver" does not rhyme with "silver" on any level. Anyone who tried that in a poem or song would find me deriding their lack of prose almost INSTANTLY.
 


Rangdo

Registered Cider Drinker
Apr 21, 2004
4,779
Cider Country
It costs £14.53 every time they open or close the roof of the Millennium Stadium.
 








pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
30,818
West, West, West Sussex
The Nokia phones "special text alert" that goes "di di di da da di di di " is actually SMS in morse code.
 


Robot Chicken

Seriously?
Jul 5, 2003
13,154
Chicken World
pasty said:
The Nokia phones "special text alert" that goes "di di di da da di di di " is actually SMS in morse code.

Then shouldn't it go "di di di DA DA DA di di di"? :jester:
 




Cian

Well-known member
Jul 16, 2003
14,262
Dublin, Ireland
pasty said:
The Nokia phones "special text alert" that goes "di di di da da di di di " is actually SMS in morse code.

And the really f***ing convulated blip one on the 9000-series is "Connecting People", also in morse.
 








BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
Downloaded Penguin said:

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

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Or windows so that you dont realise the time of day or how long you have been in there.

All the lifts in the car parks for the hotels take you straight to the casino not hotel reception .
 






Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

I believe in Joe Hendry
Oct 4, 2003
11,822
Downloaded Penguin said:
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T
3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle."

Snigger, tittle.

Downloaded Penguin said:
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

Explains a lot about the boy, or it could be because the wife is a dirty slag who slept around a lot. I'll blame the hospital, might be some money in it, I'm off to call my lawyer.
 




Tyrone Biggums

Well-known member
Jun 25, 2006
13,498
Geelong, Australia
And babies are born without kneecaps.

All Polar bears are left pawed.

Left handers die on avg 7 years young than right handers.

Left handed males earn on avg 14% more money than right handed males.

The moral of the story is if you're left handed male you'll die younger but at least you'll be rich.
 
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Trufflehound

Re-enfranchised
Aug 5, 2003
14,117
The democratic and free EU
Downloaded Penguin said:
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton..


While we're being pedantic, this one isn't true either. Money may not be made of conventional wood pulp paper, but cotton paper is STILL paper.

From Wikipedia:

"Paper is a thin material produced by the amalgamation of plant fibres, which are subsequently held together without extra binder, largely by hydrogen bonds and to a large degree by fiber entanglement. The fibres used are usually natural and composed of cellulose. The most common source of these kinds of fibres is wood pulp from pulpwood trees, largely softwoods such as spruce. However, other vegetable fibre materials including cotton, hemp, linen, and rice may be used."

Hence there's nothing unusual about #2 either.

And 29 is strictly bollocks too. The act of consuming eating celery may result in a net calorific loss, but the celery itself doesn't contain "negative calories". Using a similar argument you could claim that consuming ten pints of lager and a pie and chips supper has negative calories - if you throw it all up afterwards...

And I thought everyone knew about Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty. Both of them changed their names - they were born Beaty, with one 't'...
 


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