The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to
160 km/hr.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was
a little Chinese boy."
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of
life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and
grass is living.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific
Ocean.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster
than the rest of us.
H/T Shelly
Friday, 11 January 2008
Totally Useless Facts...part one
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The # key on my keyboard is the hash key. Shift 3 is the pound key on my keyboard.
Nutmeg is just as poisonous if grated before injected intravenously but less painful.
Honey also doesn't spoil :)
Cats are not mentioned in the Bible as domesticated animals because the aren't domesticated. If you owned a cat as large as a rottweiler or wolfhound, it would eat you. They are just tamed.
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