Gore, he spelled Mohammed right because it can be spelled more than one way like Ashley, Ashleigh, Ashlee, Ashly....
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Gore, he spelled Mohammed right because it can be spelled more than one way like Ashley, Ashleigh, Ashlee, Ashly....
I once read that it came from ancient times. When a person sneezed, theyQuote:
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
believed that they were releasing an evil spirit from them. "God Blessed You!"
I once read that if you sneeze at 60mph, you travel 44 feet with your eyes closed, which is quite scary
Also read in New Scientist recently that there are 400 times more bacteria on the average office desk than the seat of a public toilet. Yuck. :mad:
I'm quite skeptical on this one. Systolic blood pressure is usually below 150mm Hg. This is no where near enough pressure to project blood 30 feet...unless one is standing atop a 30 foot buildingQuote:
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
There are plenty of others on that list that I could pick apart, but I don't have the time or the inclination to bother with it. Just goes to show that you shouldn't believe stuff that comes to you in email ;)Quote:
Originally posted here by Digoy
Coca-Cola was originally green.
First one on the list is the first one shot down... clicky
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only in one row ! of the keyboard.
Proprietory, protereotype, and rupturewort are all real words and can be typed from a single line on a keyboard... and they are longer :)
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Unless you are using an original Pentium :)
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
This is absolutely not true. See Snopes for more details on that one... linky here
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Answer - All invented by women.
Err, Gary Starkweather invented laser printing by adapting Xerox technology with a laser beam... Kevlar was invented by a woman, but the bullet proof vest was invented by other people. She didn't have a clue that Kevlar would be used for that purpose. The windshield wiper patent goes to Mary Anderson 1905. The fire escape ladder was invented by Joseph Winters in 1878.
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Answer - Honey
Beer doesn't spoil if properly sealed. They have discovered 3000 year old beer in burial chambers in Egypt.
Most lipstick contains fish scales
Only some of them, not most... the ones that have pearlescence or pearl essence listed as an ingredient.
I don't have a link right now... but
the strongest muscle isn't tounge ... but jaw muscles!
Neither does white granular sugar. I could continue with others, but I am working on a paper about truth in advertising...Quote:
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Answer - Honey
;)
cheers
Well i think Vinegar would fit in if you take it as a food...Quote:
Originally posted here by Digoy
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Answer - Honey
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Norther America and South American don't start and end with the same letter... The best you could do is refer to them as the Americas, then they still don't end with the same letter.
Actually, before they decided to name them North and South America, it was just AmericA.
It depends what you define as a continent as there are numerous definitions these days. According to Wikipedia, if you assume there are either 4 or 6 continents then it can be correct that they all start and end with the same letter. Of course not everyone agrees that there are 4 or 6 continents, I always thought there were 5, hence the 5 Olympic rings
7: Antarctica South America North America Europe Asia Africa Australia
6 continents: Antarctica America Europe Asia Africa Australia
6 continents: Antarctica Sth America North America Eurasia Africa Australia
5 continents: Antarctica America Eurasia Africa Australia
5 continents: Antarctica South America Laurasia Africa Australia
4 continents: Antarctica America Africa-Eurasia Australia
I have always been taught that the flags of the countries of the world will have at least one of the olympic rings colours.... whether that is correct or not... I'm not sure.Quote:
Hi HT
Yes, it depends on what they are really trying to say. Certainly things like parrots, budgerigars etc have been domesticated. Snakes, tortoises, turtles, aligators...............are all house pets (Latin: "domus" = "home") and some are pretty common............hell, we have even had to pass laws to protect tortoises!Quote:
In 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.. maybe not on a large scale, but something tells me people didn't keep pet tigers and bob cats back them.. Yet there's a guy outside the city... now it's a one time thing.. but still.. it's kept domesticated..
Even if they are talking about farmed animals, you have ostriches, mink, sable, coypu, kangaroo. Stuff we used to hunt back then, but now farm.
Still, I wish someone would convince my wife that it were true. :D
As for honey, the "crust" you refer to is made up of minute particles of beeswax that gets into the honey during the extraction process. If you remove and discard it, the honey underneath is perfectly OK. ;)
Old joke - the horse is dead (on it's back with all 4 in the air due to rigor).Quote:
What does it mean if all four legs are off the ground?
So? Some perfumes are made from whale puke. Your point?Quote:
Most lipstick contains fish scales
Yes, but is an alligator truly domesticated? Can you teach it not to eat its owner, or to fetch a stick?Quote:
Certainly things like parrots, budgerigars etc have been domesticated. Snakes, tortoises, turtles, aligators...............are all house pets
And hate to tell y'all, but over time honey converts chemically to sugar. The process is very slow, but it occurs. The crust that first forms is the beeswax remnant, true, but later it's just plain crystalline sugar, not honey.