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Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by Ejisz: 2:54pm On Dec 01, 2013
came across this educational write-up and i thought sharing will be nice.

★ Ants never sleep!
★ When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh
slightly less.
★ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
never called his wife or mother; because they were both
deaf. ★ An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
★ “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
★ Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re
made of cartilage
and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years. ★ Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
★ Butterflies taste with their feet.
★ A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a
second.
★ It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
★ Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. ★ Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40°
Fahrenheit.
★ No word in the English language, rhymes with month -
orange - silver -or- purple.
★ Shakespeare invented the words “assassination”and
“bump". ★ Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the
left hand.
★ Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
★ The names of all the continents end with the same letter
that they start with.
★ The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” (u see dis as a text format wen tryin to change ur font on any Blackberry phone)
uses every letter in the English language.
★ The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and
England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
★ The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
★ The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
★ Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from
the blowing desert sand.
★ TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
★ You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. ★ Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks or it will digest itself.
★ The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by prof800(m): 3:38pm On Dec 01, 2013
hahaha nice
grin grin grin
Also you cannot kiss your elbows...
don't bother trying this grin grin grin
---
Your both ears align with the two sensitive dots on your chest...
measure it and you'll see!
grin grin grin grin
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by Nobody: 4:22pm On Dec 01, 2013
prof800: hahaha nice
grin grin grin
Also you cannot kiss your elbows...
don't bother trying this grin grin grin

I just did tongue tongue tongue tongue



other:

You can't breathe with your tongue out!





- better close up mouth and stop behaving like bingo undecided undecided

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Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by antifat(m): 8:48pm On Dec 01, 2013
Oh! Nice wan
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by Canine1(m): 7:48am On Dec 02, 2013
speedyboi:

I just did tongue tongue tongue tongue



other:

You can't breathe with your tongue out!





- better close up mouth and stop behaving like bingo undecided undecided


OMG! totally fell for that..^^

Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by boay(m): 9:30am On Dec 02, 2013
Nice.
I will add:
When you raise up your 2 hands, your navel is the perfect centre of your body.

When you stretch your 2 hands sideways, that is exactly your height.

You can measure it.

Please help answer this question: from the OP's post above what does it mean to copyright a song? I only know of books.
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by Emmyk(m): 3:10pm On Dec 02, 2013
speedyboi:

I just did tongue tongue tongue tongue



other:

You can't breathe with your tongue out!





- better close up mouth and stop behaving like bingo undecided undecided

Hahahaha. Your crazy bro! cheesycheesy

I even did it like thrice, thinking like "lemme do it well to be sure, before I tackle this guy!" cheesycheesy
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by Emmyk(m): 3:28pm On Dec 02, 2013
boay: Nice.
When you stretch your 2 hands sideways, that is exactly your height.

You can measure it.

Bro are you sure? undecided Do you mean from the tip of right finger, taperule stretching over my chest to the tip of the left finger?

Because I'm getting 7ft +, while I'm 5ft 10.
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by Emmyk(m): 3:39pm On Dec 02, 2013
boay: Nice.
Please help answer this question: from the OP's post above what does it mean to copyright a song? I only know of books.
Protection granted by copyright act to you as an author, artist or inventor, which saves your work from plagiarism without proper consultation. smiley
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by boay(m): 7:07pm On Dec 02, 2013
Emmyk: Bro are you sure? undecided Do you mean from the tip of right finger, taperule stretching over my chest to the tip of the left finger?

Because I'm getting 7ft +, while I'm 5ft 10.

Try it again. Tell someone to measure it for your.
Re: Miscellanious Uncommon Facts by boay(m): 7:07pm On Dec 02, 2013
Emmyk:
Protection granted by copyright act to you as an author, artist or inventor, which saves your work from plagiarism without proper consultation. smiley
Thanks sir!

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