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15 Things you didn't know you didn't know
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:17pm
by haas mark
- Eskimos use refridgerators to keep food from freezing.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.
- The first toilet ever seen was on "Leave it to Beaver."
- The average lifespan of a Major League baseball is 7 pitches.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why...
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the greatest amount of money in coins possible without being able to make change for a dollar.
- When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year
- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
- Only one person in 2 billion lives to be 116 years of age or older.
- The only fifteen-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- Five Jell-O flavors that flopped are celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
- In Cleveland, Ohio, it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting liscence.
Re: 15 Things you didn't know you didn't know
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:22pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
verilon wrote:
[*]A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why...
IIRC a myth.
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:24pm
by Anarchist Bunny
I knew 1, 4, 8, 9, and most of 14.
Re: 15 Things you didn't know you didn't know
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:24pm
by Montcalm
verilon wrote:The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
I guess when the priest is reading it,it sounds like he`s choking on a pretzel.
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:25pm
by Howedar
I knew some of those. I demand a refund.
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:26pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Number 5mustbe a myth. How can a sound not echo, given the right circumstances?
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:27pm
by haas mark
Howedar wrote:I knew some of those. I demand a refund.
[kicks you in the ass] There's your refund..
Oh, and I knew some of these, too.
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:27pm
by haas mark
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Number 3 must be a myth. How can a sound not echo, given the right circumstances?
This is what I think, as well. However, it may be tested, no?
Re: 15 Things you didn't know you didn't know
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:31pm
by Sir Sirius
verilon wrote:- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
...
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Ha-ha, I already knew these!
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:48pm
by Dahak
5. *is* myth.
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:52pm
by Larz
Hmmm, Coffee Jell-O... now I'm gonna want to make some. Hmm, what fruit flavor tastes good with coffee?...
Posted: 2003-02-25 05:58pm
by The Great Unbearded One
Larz wrote:Hmmm, Coffee Jell-O... now I'm gonna want to make some. Hmm, what fruit flavor tastes good with coffee?...
Ummm, dunno. Cinnamon would go pretty well I guess....
Posted: 2003-02-25 06:06pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I understand why coffee, chocolate, and celery Jello flopped, but why apple Jello?
Also, three percent of households have family pictures in the bathroom, and The Flintstones were the first couple to be seen sharing a bed on TV.
Posted: 2003-02-25 06:06pm
by haas mark
The Great Unbearded One wrote:Larz wrote:Hmmm, Coffee Jell-O... now I'm gonna want to make some. Hmm, what fruit flavor tastes good with coffee?...
Ummm, dunno. Cinnamon would go pretty well I guess....
Or chocolate.
Posted: 2003-02-25 06:12pm
by The Great Unbearded One
That too..what about Cherry Coffee???
Posted: 2003-02-25 06:18pm
by viperpilot
16. the average lifespan of a regulation american football is two and a hald downs. during the super bowl it's one down. (don't ask why the dif.)
17. in ohio it's illegal to hunt whales on sundays.
Posted: 2003-02-25 06:22pm
by The Great Unbearded One
viperpilot wrote:17. in ohio it's illegal to hunt whales on sundays.
ROFL!!!
Re: 15 Things you didn't know you didn't know
Posted: 2003-02-25 06:24pm
by Zaia
verilon wrote:The first toilet ever seen was on "Leave it to Beaver."
I'm sorry, but this one's completely untrue. I've
never seen "Leave it to Beaver" and I've seen
plenty of toilets!!
Posted: 2003-02-25 07:33pm
by Kelly Antilles
viperpilot wrote:16. the average lifespan of a regulation american football is two and a hald downs. during the super bowl it's one down. (don't ask why the dif.)
My guess would be they probably auction off every ball, perhaps for charity.
Posted: 2003-02-25 07:40pm
by Mark S
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Posted: 2003-02-25 07:43pm
by irishmick79
1984 Detroit Tigers backup outfielder? A man named Rusty Kuntz.
Posted: 2003-02-25 07:48pm
by LadyTevar
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Number 5mustbe a myth. How can a sound not echo, given the right circumstances?
Once again, since I live in a semi-rural area, near a very good-sized river (the only one in the USA that flows North), I can say that while the echo of a goose's honk will bounce at least twice in the narrower areas, a duck's quack you only hear once.
Posted: 2003-02-25 07:51pm
by Sea Skimmer
The Great Unbearded One wrote:viperpilot wrote:17. in ohio it's illegal to hunt whales on sundays.
ROFL!!!
In California It is a misdemeanor to shoot any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
Posted: 2003-02-25 07:53pm
by Sea Skimmer
LadyTevar wrote:Darth Garden Gnome wrote:Number 5mustbe a myth. How can a sound not echo, given the right circumstances?
Once again, since I live in a semi-rural area, near a very good-sized river (the only one in the USA that flows North), I can say that while the echo of a goose's honk will bounce at least twice in the narrower areas, a duck's quack you only hear once.
I've never noticed any strange echo effects in the canyons of the New River. It may just be that the quack of a duck doesnt have as much energy and thus you just cant hear a second echo. A goose is a larger bird.
Posted: 2003-02-25 08:01pm
by Kelly Antilles
LadyTevar wrote:
Once again, since I live in a semi-rural area, near a very good-sized river (the only one in the USA that flows North), I can say that while the echo of a goose's honk will bounce at least twice in the narrower areas, a duck's quack you only hear once.
Gee, now we can narrow down where Tevar and Nitram live.
I don't believe a duck has the capability of getting but so loud, ie, their thorax is very small.