THINGS YOU HAVE TO KNOW
1. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
2. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.
3. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated,
dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
4. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
5. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.
6. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
7. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian
coat of arms for that reason.
8. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
9. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah
Mat," which means "the king is dead".
10. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
11. Camel's milk does not curdle.
12. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
13. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
14. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.
15. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
16. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald
Reagan.
17. All porcupines float in water.
18. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
19. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator
while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
20. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
21. If you take a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town
hall, you are entitled to receive $10.00 from the town.
22. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled
on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
23. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
24. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." ( Thus the
name of the Don McLean song. )
25. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag.
26. The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in
an "A" is Afghanistan.
27. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
28. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. |
