Originally posted here by Digoy
Coca-Cola was originally green.
First one on the list is the first one shot down...
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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.