Adopim88 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 2007 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 3741 times:
Quoting Thom@s (Thread starter): *A piece of paper can not be folded more than 7 times.
That one is an interesting one. We have many different sizes of paper at work and we took the biggest one we could find and still could not fold it more than 7 times.
Here's some from me:
*The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
*On average it will cost $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to 11 years old
*Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.
*Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
*The human brain is 80% water
*The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
*Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland (?!?)
That's all I got for now I'll let someone else post some
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ANITIX87 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 3233 posts, RR: 14 Reply 2, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 3736 times:
Quoting Adopim88 (Reply 1): That one is an interesting one. We have many different sizes of paper at work and we took the biggest one we could find and still could not fold it more than 7 times.
Disproven on Mythbusters. Granted, they glued together thousands of sheets to make one big one, but they still managed to fold it 11 times.
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Adopim88 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 2007 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3724 times:
Quoting ANITIX87 (Reply 2): Disproven on Mythbusters. Granted, they glued together thousands of sheets to make one big one, but they still managed to fold it 11 times.
Yeah, but if you take just one sheet of paper without gluing it together it doesn't work. We tried a whole bunch of different types and sizes of paper.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Pawsleykat From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 1978 posts, RR: 14 Reply 10, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3696 times:
Quoting Adopim88 (Reply 1): *The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Wow, i always thought it was antidisestablishmentarianism. Oh, but did you know that;
*pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a lung disease contracted from breathing in silica dust from volcanoes??
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Adopim88 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 2007 posts, RR: 12 Reply 11, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3688 times:
Quoting ANother (Reply 9): Er, Sherlock Holmes was/is a fictional character. He never 'said' anything.
I think it's meant that he never said that in the books....
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Thom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11948 posts, RR: 51 Reply 12, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3688 times:
Quoting Andz (Reply 7): It is impossible to lick your elbow
I also read that 80% of the peolpe who hear this have tried to lick their elbow afterwards.
Quoting Dtwclipper (Reply 8): Captain Kirk never said, "Beam me up, Scotty," in any episode.
I saw Mark Hammill (Luke Skywalker) in an interview claiming he never said "may the force be with you". But in one of the movies I noticed he actually does. So he was wrong about that one.
Another Star Wars related fun fact is that Darth Vader doesn't say "Luke I am your father."
Thom@s
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MaidensGator From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 945 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3688 times:
Quoting Thom@s (Thread starter): *You share your birthday with about 9 million other people.
More like 18 million with the present world population....
Good post!
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ANother From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3689 times:
Quoting Adopim88 (Reply 11): I think it's meant that he never said that in the books....
I'll buy that but that isn't what was said. Just like "Captain Kirk never said, "Beam me up, Scotty," in any episode." Sherlock Holmes was never quoted saying "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of his books.
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18800 posts, RR: 64 Reply 15, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3685 times:
Quoting Thom@s (Thread starter):
*Broccoli is the only vegetable which is also a flower.
Cauliflower is as well, since broccoli is the horiticultural variety of cauliflower. The artichoke is also a flower, of the thistle variety.
Adopim88 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 2007 posts, RR: 12 Reply 16, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3683 times:
Quoting Pawsleykat (Reply 10): Oh, but did you know that;
*pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a lung disease contracted from breathing in silica dust from volcanoes??
Interestingly enough, I did know that... It was one of the only bits of information I remember from 8th grade Life Science class.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
MaidensGator From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 945 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3668 times:
Quoting Adopim88 (Reply 16): Quoting Pawsleykat (Reply 10):
Oh, but did you know that;
*pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a lung disease contracted from breathing in silica dust from volcanoes??
Interestingly enough, I did know that... It was one of the only bits of information I remember from 8th grade Life Science class.
That's funny, I learned that in 6th grade 40 years ago. I'm glad they're still teaching the important stuff!!
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Cadet985 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 1408 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (6 years 3 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 3585 times:
Quoting Pawsleykat (Reply 10): Wow, i always thought it was antidisestablishmentarianism
I always thought it was hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (the fear of long words, and this HAS been verified by a friend of mine who is going for his PhD in psychology).
27 YYZflyer: An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day About 85% or product
28 Francoflier: I'm unsure wether you needed to post that here... It makes me want to go near a volcano just to hear my doctor say that... I've received my share of
30 SlamClick: Some facts of my own: ...but you'll never know because - Duh! It's dark in there! Which is why you never see scuba gear for them. Slightly more if you
31 ANCFlyer: But he did finally say it in one of the movies, 4 or 5. Can't recall. The whole theater cracked up . . . because we knew he'd never said it in a movi
32 QFA380: Really? Thats my birthday. Never knew that one.
33 SlamClick: Or roughly nine months after New Year's Eve. Seriously I did read that it is the most common birth date in the US.
35 StealthZ: The thing that really confirms the untruth of this is the fact that a koala is NOT a bear!
36 GAIsweetGAI: And a lot of them (me included) are discriminated against in this right-handed society.
37 MaidensGator: I like that! But it's a bit of an exaggeration... Texas - 261,797 sq mi. land area Alaska - 571,951 sq mi. land area Half of Alaska - 285,976 sq mi.
38 ANCFlyer: Yeah, but you wanna get a Texan spun right up, keep quoting me . . .
39 ANITIX87: You can't call it discrimination. You can call it a lack of consideration. We don't get excluded from stuff for being left-handed. We don't get insul
40 GAIsweetGAI: Good point- I have to agree with you here.
41 MaidensGator: That's pretty interesting... Why the switch in only 200 years?
42 SW733: On Mythbusters, Grant used tracing paper and did it 8 times... Actually, not entirely true. My girlfriend can do it. I've seen it.
43 Thom@s: That one is news to me. Must be a Swedish or Danish thing then... Thom@s
44 Andz: Pelican is right, it isn't true. A Koala is a marsupial, not a mammal Once again true, a bear is a mammal while a Koala is not!
45 Gkirk: Some laws from different parts of the world Anchorage, Alaska: No one may tie their pet dog to the roof of a car. Fairbanks, Alaska: It is considered
46 Skywatch: Count me in! Everything's bigger in Texas! I have driven past the place...it takes forever! Brilliant! Ummm..really? Not if you are born on February
47 Aloges: Any marsupial is a mammal, so the Koala is one, too.
48 ANother: Has the world gotten smaller, or are American's the only ones with dumb laws. (don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question)
49 Gkirk: Rhaa! Ok, Switzerland: It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 Pm. If you forget you car-keys inside the car and you leave the car open, you will
50 Kay: you definitely can fold a piece of paper more than 7 times provided that the ratio size/thickness is large enough. An A3 or A2 paper is maybe still to
51 Bagpiper: There was something about that in A.net chat last night. (WestJetYQQ was involved I think) But alas, you had to have been there. What goes on in chat
52 Banco: Which would be a nuisance. Fortunately, in places like York, it is still legal to shoot a Welshman.
53 Unoflygirl: OMG, I thought I was the only one who knew about that. I learned about that phobia in high school. I always love rambling it off and having people be
54 FlyingColours: That sounds like a sensible law for a change although did y'all know in Switzerland you will be arrested for vagrency if you are carrying less than 1
55 FlyingColours: Oh I thought this one is a classic In Canada if you are released from prison, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so
56 DanatFCM: -Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if taken intravenously. (In case any of you were thinking about shooting up some nutmeg). -The longest place-name still
57 FlyDeltaJets87: Actually, it isn't. We have a girl in Pershing Rifles who can lick her own elbow (and she did show us).
58 Ag92: This is indeed true but I think they either have or will be relaxing it soon to you cant sell or buy chewing gum in Singappore Regards
59 MaidensGator: There was a common household paper napkin sitting on my desk, so I read your post and had to try. It comes out of the package folded twice. I managed
60 ANITIX87: Sorry, meant two millenia ago. Right around the turn from BC to AD, the shift began to occur. I don't know exactly why, though. I think left-handed-n
61 Duff44: I thought this rule was being relaxed due to the popularity of anti-smoking gum Huh? There's a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchau
62 Thom@s: I thought this was a world wide thing. Obviously a good idea as the triangle on the side of the road will warn other drivers that something is up fur
63 Aloges: Me too. It certainly is mandatory in Germany, Is that an EU regulation then?* The rule is in effect in my country, I fully agree that it's sensible.
64 Thom@s: Don't know. But I think it is just a Norwegian thing for now. Wouldn't be surprised if it spreads to other countries though. Thom@s
65 ShyFlyer: Such a device is not mandated in the US as far as I know, but many truckers use a set of at least three for use when they break down. I keep a set in
66 ANother: Urban Myth. What is illegal is to make noise after 10PM (actually between 10PM and 6AM) and all day Sunday. In a apartment building this could includ
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