The Haunting of Hawking
Shamelessly stolen from some random site (what else do I do on here?), I thought some of these were of interest…
» Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
» Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number
» The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian’s uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
» Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
» If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
» The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
» “Zorro” means “fox” in Spanish.
» Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.
» The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan “finger-lickin’ good” came out as “eat your fingers off” in Chinese.
» “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
» There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
» “Floccinaucinihilipilification” which means “the act of estimating as worthless” is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it’s 29 letters long.
» Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.
» If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
» In Chinese, the words “crisis” and “opportunity” are the same.
» “Goodbye” came from “God bye” which came from “God be with you.”
» “So long” came from the Arabic “salaam” and the Hebrew “shalom.”
» The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I Ran the Zoo.”
» The word “racecar” and “kayak” are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
» The word “monosyllable” actually has five syllables in it.
» “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
» There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.
» The letter “I” is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”
» There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
» “Naked” means to be unprotected. “Nude” means unclothed.
» The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
» The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
» In English, “four” is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
» “Q” is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
» The word “trivia” comes from the Latin “trivium” which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
» “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.
» The word “checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat,” which means, “the king is dead.”
» The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the English language.
» The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable.”
» Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village.”
» “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
» The most common name in the world is “Mohammed.”
» In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
» It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
» $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.
» You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
» On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
» There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
» Odds of being killed by a dog – 1 in 700,000.
» Odds of dying while in the bath tub – 1 in 1 million.
» Odds of being killed by space debris – 1 in 5 billion.
» Odds of being killed by poisoning – 1 in 86,000.
» Odds of being killed by freezing – 1 in 3 million.
» Odds of being killed by lightening – 1 in 2 million.
» Odds of being killed in a car crash – 1 in 5,000.
» Odds of being killed in a tornado – 1 in 2 million.
» Odds of being killed by falling out of bed – 1 in 2 million.
» Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.
» If you played all of the Beatles’ singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.
» Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
» The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
» 13 people are killed each year by vending machine’s falling on them.
» There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
» About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.
» The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.
» The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
» The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.
» Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.
» 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.
» Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.
» Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
» The Earth’s revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
» Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.
» Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.
» Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.
» If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
» 1/3 of all cancers are sun related.
» The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.
» There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
» It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
» The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
