Useless fact of the day post!!!

[ian.settle1]

Goran Ivanisevic is the only Wimbledon champion whose entire name consists of alternating consonants and vowels.

He is also the only person to win Wimbledon as a wildcard

 

[ian.settle1]

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[Phil]

Alaska

• In Fairbanks, it is illegal to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose.
• While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

 

[Phil]

Indiana

• Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend.
• In Gary, it is illegal to attend the theater within four hours of eating garlic.
• The Stepford Wives is banned in a Warsaw school.

 

[Phil]

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

 

[Phil]

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

 

[Phil]

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

 

[Phil]

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

 

[Phil]

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

 

[Phil]

if your ever in the desert and need a glass of the white stuff, Camel's milk does not curdle.

 

[Phil]

A group of frogs is called an army.

 

[Phil]

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average, and about a thousand when its crossing a road

 

[ian.settle1]

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average, and about a thousand when its crossing a road

Then stops suddenly when it is run over:tank:

 

[Kamikaze]

The Scots invented the game entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF.
The Scots also invented hypnosis, chloroform and the hypodermic syringe. Come to think of it, wouldn't it just had been easier to talk to a woman? :teeth_smile:

 

[Kamikaze]

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".

 

[Kamikaze]

If you place a tiny amount of alcohol on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

 

[Kamikaze]

The outdoor temperature can be estimated by timing the chirps of a cricket. Count the number of chirps in a 15 second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather.

 

[Kamikaze]

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

 

[Kamikaze]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 

[Kamikaze]

The microwave was invented after a researcher which walked past a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 

[Kamikaze]

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's chewing gum.

 

[Phil]

If the population of China walked past you in a single file line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 

[Phil]

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily, on average!

 

[Phil]

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

 

[Phil]

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

 

[electromonkey]

You were born with 300 bones, but at adulthood you only have 206

Unless Angelina Jolie is on the TV then surely it's 207????

 

[electromonkey]

Charlie Chaplin once came 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.

 

[Kamikaze]

Isaac Shoenber from EMI in the 1930's reportedly said when shown the first TV: "Congratulations gentlemen, you've just invented the biggest time waster in history, use it well"

 

[Kamikaze]

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

is a fear of long words