Re: TIB: Re: Strange, but Interesting Facts :)
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Re: TIB: Re: Strange, but Interesting Facts :)
Please don't post these forwards to ti-basic!
Bryan
Grant Stockly wrote:
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> >STRANGE BUT TRUE
> >
> >All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
> >
> >On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
> >Parliament building is an American flag.
> >
> >If she were life size, Barbie's measurements would be
> >39-23-33.
> >
> >No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
> >silver, or purple.
> >
> >"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
> >"mt".
> >
> >All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
> >Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
> >
> >Almonds are members of the peach family.
> >
> >Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a
> >dance.
> >
> >Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
> >
> >There are only four words in the English language which
> >end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
> >hazardous.
> >
> >The longest place-name still in use is a New Zealand hill
> >called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukaka-
> >pikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu
> >
> >Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
> >Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be
> >abbreviated to 3.63% of its size - L.A.
> >
> >A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
> >
> >An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
> >
> >Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
> >
> >In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
> >displayed on a watch is 10:10.
> >
> >Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
> >dealer.
> >
> >The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
> >
> >The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were
> >named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in
> >Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
> >
> >A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
> >
> >A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
> >
> >On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the
> >upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield"
> >and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
> >
> >The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
> >
> >Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You"
> >theme? Why it's Paul Reiser himself.
> >
> >The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy
> >moth from 1.8 miles away.
> >
> >The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up
> >when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet
> >and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
> >
> >The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by
> >a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
> >
> >Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
> >
> >John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
> >
> >The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
> >
> >There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
> >
> >"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only
> >the left hand.
> >
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