Useless Facts

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1. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"

 

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1. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

 

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1. The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.

 

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

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1. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

 

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Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

 

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Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

 

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1. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

 

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Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

 

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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children

 

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There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

 

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1. 
   A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 

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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

 

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The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

 

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The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

 

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The word "dexter" whose meaning refers to the right hand is typed with only the left hand.

 

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To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

 

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1. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

 

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1. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

 

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The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television, a country where "Chachi" translates to "penis".