Welll, again, some more random facts... feel free to add some more?!


Question: There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds (ive put this in but i don't think this is true)

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours (lonely little bugger lol)

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

There are more chickens than people in the world

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

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

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. (what happens if you have no left hand?)

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."


Answers: There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds (ive put this in but i don't think this is true)

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours (lonely little bugger lol)

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

There are more chickens than people in the world

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

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

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. (what happens if you have no left hand?)

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

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#151 The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963

#152 In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph

#153 The speed limit in NYC was 8 mph in 1895

#154 Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls

#155 In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC

#156 Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco

#157 The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946

#158 The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles

#159 The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger"

#160 One alternative title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe"

#161 The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo"

#162 The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees fahrenheit

#163 The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business"

#164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses

#165 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise

#166 Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers

#167 You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound

#168 One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns

#169 The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip

#170 In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names

#171 The most sensetive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips

#172 The eye makes movements 50 times every second

#173 Chinese is the most spoken language in the world

#174 The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico

#175 In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland

#176 The first bike was called a hobbyhorse

#177 The first sailing boats were built in Egypt

#178 The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00

#179 The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886

#180 The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano

#181 The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899

#182 A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon

#183 The Capitol building in Washington DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year

#184 The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N

You are coming out with some good ones. Thanks for those. Interesting.

Hey!

Yeah, I knew most of those! But thanks so much for sharing! They're pretty cool! I love the one about Ernest Vincent Wright's novel. How in the world did he pull that off???

Anyway, thanks again!

Luv ya,
Tashi :)

Good ones. I shall add my old favourite: 25% of London's pidgeons have one leg or less.

interesting!have you ever heard of the shona and ndebele languages,native to zimbabwe

Very interesting.........thank you

very insightful, have a star,


and did u know that dog spit is cleaner than humans.

79% of all statistics are made up.

Some people are full of useless information. I'm just wondering when (if ever) I'll be able to use it. Don't think so.

michigans state animal and bird share the name with famous cartoon characters....wolverine off of X-men and Robin...batman's sidekick...i know a lot more but don't have the time

dont forget haphazardous

Good ones.!!!
Cheers.!!!

As you said feel free to add so if you dont mind i will to your first fact which is wrong

Walker's Rhyming Dictionary (1936) clearly indicates. The words are vanadous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, frondous, decapodous, lagopodous, tylopodous, steganopodous, heteropodous, gasteropodous, isopodous, and ligniperdous

and

amphipodous, apodous, blizzardous, hybridous, iodous, nodous, octapodous, palladous, paludous, pudendous, rhodous, sauropodous, schizopodous, solipedous, splendidous, tetrapodous, voudous

I make that more than 4 :)

thanks for sharing.

well its always good to know useless info ; )

I already knew these. DID U JUST FIND THESE OUT!!!! wow your LATE!



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