Random Facts...

[Abaddon]

the peanut is not a nut, it is a legume.

 

[SuBe]

Honey is Bee vomit

 

[spideyboy_1111]

the peanut is not a nut, it is a legume.

and a legume is a fruit

 

[Abaddon]

dry fruit.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

still a fruit

 

[XFanTim]

The longest common word that doesn't contain A, E, I, O, or U is rhythms.

 

[XFanTim]

The English language has many prefixes and suffixes, but its only infix is the word "f***ing" (plus various euphemisms for that word).

E.g. "abso-freakin-lutely!"

 

[Dangerous]

you said f**king was the only infix, but as you just demonstrated 'freakin' works too.

 

[XFanTim]

you said f**king was the only infix, but as you just demonstrated 'freakin' works too.

Yes, but freakin' is a euphomism for f**king. Like saying darn instead of damn.

I don't know of any that aren't some varient of f**king.

 

[XFanTim]

The dog was the first animal to be domesticated by humans.



17,000 years later, we're still working on the cat.

 

[Mister Sinister]

The dog was the first animal to be domesticated by humans.

Wrong. It was the horse.

 

[XFanTim]

Wrong. It was the horse.

That's not what I've heard. link

I've heard it other places than wikipedia, but that was the first link I could find.

EDIT: Encyclopedia Brittanica agrees

 

[JTStarkiller]

Tie does NOT go to the runner.

 

[XFanTim]

So far as anyone knows, Isaac Newton died a virgin.

In contrast, Einstein had two wives (not at the same time).

Stephen Hawking has also had two wives (again, not at the same time) despite being completely paralyzed.

Erwin Schrödinger, one of the inventors of Quantum Mechanics, had two wives at the same time. (Technically a wife and a live-in mistress)

 

[XFanTim]

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the longest work in Swedish is
NORDÖSTERSJÖKUSTARTILLERIFLYGSPANINGSSIMULATORANLÄGGNINGSMATERIELUNDERHÅLLSUPPFÖLJNINGSSYSTEMDISKUSSIONSINLÄGGSFÖRBEREDELSEARBETEN

 

[SuBe]

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the longest work in Swedish is
NORDÖSTERSJÖKUSTARTILLERIFLYGSPANINGSSIMULATORANLÄGGNINGSMATERIELUNDERHÅLLSUPPFÖLJNINGSSYSTEMDISKUSSIONSINLÄGGSFÖRBEREDELSEARBETEN

That is a long word for Butthole.

 

[redmarvel]

The Blue Morpho Butterfly's wings are actually covered in microscopic scales which reflect light making it appear a brilliant blue.

 

[Space Moose]

Resraechres at cmabirgde uinvrestiy fnuod taht the odrer ltteers are wtitren in deson't mttaer as lnog as the frist and lsat ltteers are in the rgiht palce. yuo'llbe albe to raed the wrods croerctly no mtater how jubmled the ltters are. It semes taht yuor barin dosne't raed ecah lteter but sees the wohle wrod at ocne!

 

[Space Moose]

Count the number of "F"s in the following text:

"FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS"

There are 6 not 3. It is difficult for the brain to register the F in 'OF'

 

[Captain_BluTac]

The dog was the first animal to be domesticated by humans.
17,000 years later, we're still working on the cat.

Wrong. It was the horse.

Both wrong, it was the pig.

 

[Space Moose]

Both wrong, it was the pig.

Fan of anti-humour, huh?

 

[turtlefocker]

looks are all the matter

 

[XFanTim]

The capital of Djbouti is . . . Djbouti.

This is also the title of its national anthem.

 

[Bubonic]

The gender of crocodiles, alligators, and turtles will be determined by the temperature the eggs are incubated in.

Under lab conditions its quite easy to take the eggs of said creatures, put them at a certain temperature, and they will all be a certain gender.

 

[XFanTim]

The gender of crocodiles, alligators, and turtles will be determined by the temperature the eggs are incubated in.

Under lab conditions its quite easy to take the eggs of said creatures, put them at a certain temperature, and they will all be a certain gender.

Really? Different genders don't have different chromosomes, like in people? Or they have some cells of each gender, and temperature determines which survives?