random things that are useless

samia08
By samia08

random things that are useless
*Ducks quacks don't echo. No one knows why.
*Hitler's mother thought about having an abortion, but was talked out of it by her doctor.
*We shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
*Like fingerprints, everyones tongueprint is different.
*Right handed people live on average 9 years longer than left handed people
*A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day
*In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum
*"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
*A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
*Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
*Donald Duck was banned in Finland for a while because he doesn't wear pants.
*The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
*The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
*The manufacturing documentation for a Jumbo Jet weighs more than a Jumbo Jet.
*If electrodes are inserted at opposite ends of a pickle, and electricity is passed through, the pickle will glow.
*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
*Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
*40% of cases a pizza will arrive sooner than an ambulance.
*Most toliets flush in E-flat.
*It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
*The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
*In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
*A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
*The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
*Frowning burns more calories than smiling.
*1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
*The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
*The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
*If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
*A ball of glass will bounce higher that a ball of rubber.
*Children grow faster in the spring.
*On average, a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
*Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
*A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over100 miles per hour.
*Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food.
*A "dude" is an infected hair on an elephants butt.
*The average person has a total of 6 pounds of skin.
*Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
*On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
*On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
*Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
*The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
*Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
*In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
*Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes

By edifis• 21 Oct 2009 22:19
edifis

The second quack in "quack quack" is the echo.

By chinx_lady• 21 Oct 2009 21:48
chinx_lady

quite long for reading........

By Amoud• 21 Oct 2009 21:42
Amoud

Didnt bother to read it all..... Mythbusters already proved that ducks quacks do echo.

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"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock - Will Rogers"

By edifis• 21 Oct 2009 21:23
edifis

Could I use all this info to get an Apple?

By kingmalik87• 21 Oct 2009 21:21
kingmalik87

CTRL+C --->> CTRL V...Nice Work

By anonymous• 21 Oct 2009 21:15
anonymous

Power to the non believers, it’s a great feeling to have and hold.

By anonymous• 21 Oct 2009 19:49
anonymous

I am not upset, just sad :(

But wait a mnute did I ever send you a PM you could reply to......oops sorry my bad, I forgot, I should first send you a PM you can reply to :P

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 19:46
samia08

sandee,

dont get upset plz

By anonymous• 21 Oct 2009 19:39
anonymous

samia 10 and a half hours PMing and yet you never found time to reply to my PMs :'(

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

By ajinpt• 21 Oct 2009 19:32
ajinpt

Thanx samia for that piece of info :-)

but Sorry to hear about Hitler..(somebody told me his birth certificate was rather an apology letter from.. ehhh,, aaaahh,, forgot it)

Now I know why mosquitoes are attracted more towards galz..

and, being a dentist is really frustrating....;p

---If you can't CONVINCE them, CONFUSE them!!!

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 19:16
samia08

brit they allow only the sale of "therapeutic" gum in pharmacies....p)

Darude 10hours and 1/2

By DaRuDe• 21 Oct 2009 19:11
DaRuDe

you mean 10hours busy pming around.

By britexpat• 21 Oct 2009 19:07
britexpat

Actually, Singapore now allows the sale of chweing gum, through pharmacists :O)

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 19:04
samia08

DaRude ,

me 2 hours in pm ?!!! you dont know me well.

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 19:03
samia08

ok pajju next time i will poste all those phrases one by one as sandeepkadian said

but am afraid MOD will deactivate my account !

By DaRuDe• 21 Oct 2009 19:00
DaRuDe

for that you atleast need to spend 8hours a day on QL.

not just 4 hours with 2 hours in pm and 2 hours on main forum.

By Pajju• 21 Oct 2009 18:58
Pajju

samia sorry have no time to read full :(

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 18:58
samia08

true sandeepkadian lol

By anonymous• 21 Oct 2009 18:58
anonymous

samia then you should have posted all those points one by one, you would have got much more points..

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 18:56
samia08

DArU . i want to acheive 1000 points

By samia08• 21 Oct 2009 18:53
samia08

hahahahhahahahahahahaa

By DaRuDe• 21 Oct 2009 18:52
DaRuDe

good.

was that your home work for today?

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