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Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.. It's the same with apples!

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Oye!

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
 
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

About 24 percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires, and suicides.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.

The silkworm's silk comes out of its mouth as a thread of gooey liquid, so that nice silk blouse you spent a fortune on is really just worm spit.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture a day in the last 70 days of his life.

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel - The Titan.

Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.

In the 15th century, scholars in China compiled a set of encyclopedia that contained 11,095 volumes.

There are now 14 planets orbiting our Sun.
 
It is estimated that a few years after Columbus discovered the New World, the Spaniards killed off 1.5 million Native Indians. *SIGH* racist

An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break his former girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a rather large hole in his stomach.

People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States than are Americans.

In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.

If the world were tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.
 
KiRsTyBoO said:
Since when?
Only nine of them are "official" planets. There are lots of large objects which orbit the Sun that some people argue should be classed as planets.

Yeshua said:
Orange = Arrange

Purple = Gurgle

Silver = Gilder

No?
No.

Purple = Curple

Silver = Chilver (Quicksilver too, but that doesn't really count)

Month = n+1th

The following words have no rhymes:

angst
breadth
bulbdepth
eighth
film
glimpsed
gulf
mulcts
ninth
sculpts
sixth
twelfth
width
wolf

And those are only the words with one or two syllables.
 
Yeshua said:
Orange = Arrange

Purple = Gurgle

Silver = Gilder

No?

Naw. They mean full rhymes, not assonance. Also the second 'a' in arrange doesn't rhyme with the 'a' in orange either way. If you look in the dictionary the phonetic translation of 'ran' in orange is 'r i n' and for the 'ran' in arrange it's 'r e i n'.

A word that does rhyme with orange is syringe.
 
In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.


Fuck that, I'm going there now.
 

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