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Weird and Interesting Facts.

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The elbow is the only known place someone may touch without permission and not be charged with sexual harassment.

Contrary to what the old saying says, a watched pot DOES boil.

The original snapshot of Lincoln's head has a crack running through the top, right around where he was shot in the head.

Deja-Vu is actually your brain having a small seizure.

3 lefts make a right.

Purple is the only color with it's own website dedicated to nothing, but the actual color itself. In case you havent guessed, its purple.com.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. (the "North" and "South" in the Americas dont count as part of the real name)

On a standard keyboard, the longest word typed with only the left hand is "stewertesses" and the longest with the right is "lollipop".

The quickest way to a man's heart is Chuck Norris's fist.


I got these from scattered sources and people, so I dunno if they're all true.
 
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Apparently on a qwerty keyboard, the longest word that can be typed alternating hands is 'skepticism'.
 
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Raichu said:
The elbow is the only known place someone may touch without permission and not be charged with sexual harassment.
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The irony in that is that another name for an elbow is a weinus or however it is spelled.
 
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I have a couple.
An elephant produces 20kg of poo a day.
Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was scared of mice.
Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils.
A group of 12 or more cows is called a flink.
 
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Mel Blanc, who provided the voiceover for Bugs in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, hated the taste of carrots, but still had to bite into them for the voiceover track.
 
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Some Pokemon facts:

Vaporeon, Flareon and Jolteon all have a collar, just like Eevee, but the other Eeveelutions does not.

Girafarig is a palindrome.
 
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Worst Username Ever said:
"Girafarig" is spelled the same backwards and forwards.
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It's a palindrome, as are Ho-Oh and Eevee.

The longest single-word palindrome in English is 'redivider', but it is debatable whether that is a real word.

(I make up huge palindromes in my spare time because I'm sad like that)
 
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Black holes hum B-flat. It is so low that we can't hear it, and the note (Bb-53) corresponds to one vibration every ten billion years.
 
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Icalasari said:
The Bluebird's blue colour is actually an optical illusion. They are (according to Ripley's, so take it with a grain of salt) actually a shade of gray
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How, exactly does this optical illusion work? If they look blue, no matter where you place them, then aren't they blue?

Raichu said:
The elbow is the only known place someone may touch without permission and not be charged with sexual harassment.
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What about the shoulder? You're allowed to tap people there. Or the top of the foot. It would probably be awkward if you touched someone there, but surely it wouldn't constitute as sexual harassment?


Jack_the_White said:
Hitler was a homosexual prostitiute at one point
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This can't be true.
 
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^ Don't get how that's strange

Raichu said:
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. (the "North" and "South" in the Americas dont count as part of the real name)
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I never realized that o.o


Anyways:

Over 150 planets outside our solar system have been discovered, all in the last decade.

Breasts are sweat glands that secrete milk instead of milky sweat.

Contrary to popular belief, the correct spelling is not 'wether,' it is 'whether' and 'wether' means 'gelded male sheep.'

It is possible to die of constipation.

Your eye muscles are some of the strongest in your body.

Lowell thought that Venus had 'spokes.' In reality, the telescope he used was similar to the instrument that doctors use to inspect your eyes, and the 'spokes' were actually the reflections of the blood vessels in his own eyeball.

The Sun's surface is defined as where the various waves of light inside of it escape into interplanetary space. Longer wavelengths actually come from deeper inside the Sun, so measuring its diameter in infared will make the diameter slightly shorter than the diameter measured in visible light.

In the average solar eclipse, the Sun will be 90% covered by the Moon before people will comment that the sky has darkened.
 
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Orchid comes from the Greek word meaning testicle, because an orchid's roots look like testicles.

The reason for the Venus in the Venus Fly Trap is because botinists thought it looked like a vagina.

Avacado comes from the ancient Aztec word for testicle. They were just pushing it there. D:
 
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Raichu said:
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. (the "North" and "South" in the Americas dont count as part of the real name)
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That's subjective. Some people consider Australia a continent in its own right, some combine it with New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji and some others and call it Australasia and others combine that with Indonesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and the Solomon Islands and call it Oceania. And that rule doesn't apply to the last one.

Raichu said:
On a standard keyboard, the longest word typed with only the left hand is "stewertesses" and the longest with the right is "lollipop".
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Its "stewardesses". "Stewertesses" isn't a word.
 
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Teh Ebil Snorlax said:
That's subjective. Some people consider Australia a continent in its own right, some combine it with New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji and some others and call it Australasia and others combine that with Indonesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and the Solomon Islands and call it Oceania. And that rule doesn't apply to the last one.
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The official UN ruling is that Australia is the continent, and that Oceania and Australasia are simply regions of that part of the world.
 
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