This one reminds me of some of the posters here!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Interesting Trivia
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Interesting Trivia
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 12 Oct 2005, 20:16:33
! Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
! The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
! TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
! More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
! Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
! If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
! A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
! The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
! Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
! In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
! "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
! A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
! A Man, A Plan, A canal, Panama! spelled backwards is A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama!
And so it goes, on and on, at http://www.pmbc.com/fact.html (that last one was my own contribution)
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Re: Interesting Trivia
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 12 Oct 2005, 20:41:26
According to an article in Discover Magazine about spiders, these 'camel spider' pictures are a fraud and camel spiders never get any larger than a human hand. (actually its just a trick of perspective with the spiders being much more close up, but the myth has spread of these huge camel spiders)
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Re: Interesting Trivia
by Schweinshaxe » Wed 12 Oct 2005, 20:57:14
Your posts get more and more strange... I whish I had some of that stuff you're smoking...
The Camel Spiders (or Wind Scorpions) are, as you say, not especially large. If you carefully study this, by now famous picture, you'd see that the creatures look big because of the angle. Compare the size of the animals to the sleeve of the person who's holding them. Tell me now what you see...
There are a lot of rumurs about these animals circulating the web. Some say that they eat the flesh of sleeping peoples faces and some say that they are very poisonous. They are in fact completely harmless.
The Camel Spiders (or Wind Scorpions) are, as you say, not especially large. If you carefully study this, by now famous picture, you'd see that the creatures look big because of the angle. Compare the size of the animals to the sleeve of the person who's holding them. Tell me now what you see...
There are a lot of rumurs about these animals circulating the web. Some say that they eat the flesh of sleeping peoples faces and some say that they are very poisonous. They are in fact completely harmless.
Was soll das?
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Re: Interesting Trivia
by rogerhb » Wed 12 Oct 2005, 21:02:42
As everyone who watches "3rd Rock from the Sun" knows:
A peanut is not a nut, it's a legume.
A peanut is not a nut, it's a legume.
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
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Re: Interesting Trivia
by PenultimateManStanding » Wed 12 Oct 2005, 21:03:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', 'Y')our posts get more and more strange... I whish I had some of that stuff you're smoking...
You haven't been reading them for very long then if that's what you think. Glad to keep you guessing, schwein.-
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