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Fun facts
« on: February 27, 2011, 08:58:58 AM »
    
    


     Stewardesses  is the longest word
     typed with only the left hand.

     And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed
     with your right hand.
     (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)


     No word in the English language rhymes with
     month, orange, silver, or purple.

     ' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

     Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
     but our nose and ears never stop growing.

     The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
     uses every letter of the alphabet.
     (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

     The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or      right to left (palindromes).
  
     There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


     There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
     (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)


     TYPEWRITER  is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
     (All you typists are going to test this out)

     A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

     A goldfish  has a memory span of three seconds   ;D Look!  There's a castle!
     (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

     A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
     A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
     A snail can sleep for three years.
     (I know some people that could do this too!)

     Almonds are a member of the peach family.

     An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
    
     Babies are born without kneecaps.
     They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

     February 1895 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

     February 2012 will NOT have a full moon!
      
            
     In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

     If the population of China walked past you, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.



     Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors



     Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

     Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


     The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.



     The cruise liner, QE 2,

     moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
     The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
    
     The winter of 1932 was so cold that   Niagara Falls    
     froze completely solid .


     There are more chickens than people in the world.


     Winston Churchill

     was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
     Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


    





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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2011, 02:31:30 PM »
i bet NOONE knew THIS ;D....(i have posted this years ago on the X)


Green Poop: The Implications Of Food Dye On Poop Color

http://www.poopreport.com/Intellectual/Content/Dye/dye.html
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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2011, 02:47:54 PM »
i bet NOONE knew THIS ;D....(i have posted this years ago on the X)


Green Poop: The Implications Of Food Dye On Poop Color

http://www.poopreport.com/Intellectual/Content/Dye/dye.html

Thank you for not posting pictures
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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2011, 03:22:05 PM »

Thank you for not posting pictures
  ;D

here is another 1 that i find ..well amazing!

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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2011, 01:35:33 PM »
this thread I'm loving, but it's all over the place, too much, far too many fun facts.
so I'm starting at the bottom


'Women blink nearly twice as much as men'


of course, this makes so much sense, we girlies all have longer eyelashes than men and some of us wear mascara, which oftentimes makes your eyelids feel heavy.  Also we frequently blink away tears



'Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance'


waaaa, I'm surprised you even know who he was...


'There are more chickens than people in the world'


and far more many cows.  people must eat





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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2011, 01:54:46 PM »
'The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid'

I lived in Toronto for many years and if we didn't drive across 400 miles to Montreal or 200 up north to Muskoka to see the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) every weekend we'd instead drive 100 to Niagara.

And I've definitely seen Niagara frozen.  I took pix.  Sent postcards home to relatives in England...  Maybe they had a freezing machine or something, but it was all solid with pink and blue lights.  I've been there 20 or more times (winter spring summer and fall) and it always does what it's supposed to.



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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2011, 01:58:43 PM »
on google it says the last time truly frozen solid was 1911...

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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2011, 07:22:31 AM »
i bet NOONE knew THIS ;D....(i have posted this years ago on the X)


Green Poop: The Implications Of Food Dye On Poop Color

http://www.poopreport.com/Intellectual/Content/Dye/dye.html

C'mon Toxy...you should know we've discussed this before. ;D


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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2011, 07:23:58 PM »
C'mon Toxy...you should know we've discussed this before. ;D


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yeah but the tpoic is so close to my heart that i cant help talking about it every 12 or so months  ;D
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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2011, 07:23:58 AM »
yeah but the tpoic is so close to my heart that i cant help talking about it every 12 or so months  ;D

A friend got me this for Christmas...very interesting stuff in there!  I'm way ahead in days of reading

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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2011, 09:38:22 AM »
A friend got me this for Christmas...very interesting stuff in there!  I'm way ahead in days of reading



lol....i BET your friend ordered that over the internet...

can you imagine walking up to the counter at a Barnes and Ignoble with THAT in your hand and a smirk on your face?!  :D


and o...sticking to the original topic!

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.



which makes you wonder...
67000miles per hour...come to 29.94 meters/milisecond (dont worry about the math)...POINT BEING if you jump up for a milisecond...the earth should move past under you a distance of 29.94 meters..

why doesn't it?
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Re: Fun facts
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 10:56:42 AM »
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When I jump up does the Earth move down?
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When I jump up does the Earth move down?
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Hello I have a Science question.

Newton's Third Law of Motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  According to that, when I stand on the ground and jump up, away from the Earth, then the Earth must also move an infinitesimal distance away from me.  

Is this really true in practice?

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Yes, of course it's true.
P.S. Please, stop jumping, I can't keep this book still!  
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In practice, you'll just make a local deformation instead of making the entire Earth move.
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(Ah, yes:) *a table is always good to hide under*

  
When you're 'jumping' you just force the Earth to 'hunt you down':)
Treat her like the lady she is, and stop jumping on her...
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But LeeE - but this doesn't mean that the Earth doesn't really move, albeit by a miniscule amount, surely?

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Umm... could you re-phrase that please?
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The Earth must move the same, because of momentum conservation law.
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The whole Earth doesn't need to move if just moving a small part of it will suffice.  If you want to look at it as a rigid-body problem though, then the Earth moves away from you when you jump up in the air but then starts moving towards you, just as you start moving towards it, as you come down again.  In this case, neither of you is stationary while you are in the air.
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With "whole Earth" you mean "All the Planet with all its parts" or just "a part of it"? Because if you really mean the first, then you can simply say that its centre of mass moves, because of momentum conservation law; if then the centre of mass moves because of...that part moves that way...and the other part in that way...etc., it's not my problem!  

Do you know what I mean? You have to identify a point of the entire system which represents the system's position in space, and the simpler one is centre of mass.

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LeeE, although you are right in that it leads to a observable elastic deformation oscillating in a bit and then back, some rudiment of it I would expect to travel the whole way through the Earth and back.

Does that mean that we will have oscillations in more phases than one?

One from where we loose our observational ability and then those coming back from what we can't measure?
If this is correct?

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