Just for fun.........
Many years ago, in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled
'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'.. .and thus, the word GOLF entered
into the English language.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with the words orange,
purple, or silver, or month. (Debated, as I don't think that sliver is a
rhyme for silver, or pimple a good rhyme with purple, etc.)
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
In the 1400's, a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to
beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the
rule of thumb'.
The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
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Have fun reading
hugs Bigi
Hi everyone, I want to welcome you to my little Blog. This Blog is to show you the books I have written, some fantasy, some not and I had tons of fun writing them. I´ll undergo a self inflicted challenge every now and then and hope it works.......:-) All I can do now is wish all lots of fun, just sit back, grab a cuppa and have fun....... Fantasy is in the Heart of the Reader. hugs Bigi
Dienstag, 12. Juni 2012
Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012
Absolute Useless Trivia
The dot over the "i" is called a tittle.
315 entries in Webster´s 1966 Dictionary were spelled wrong.
During the chariot race in Ben Hur a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales. Yum.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830´s as medicine.
Leonarde de Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
When the master printer was building a page and discovered that a particular sort was empty, he would get angry. Thus the term "out of sorts".
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
315 entries in Webster´s 1966 Dictionary were spelled wrong.
During the chariot race in Ben Hur a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales. Yum.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830´s as medicine.
Leonarde de Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
When the master printer was building a page and discovered that a particular sort was empty, he would get angry. Thus the term "out of sorts".
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Montag, 19. März 2012
Useless but interesting Information
I found this Link and thought I might let you all take a look for youreselves.......have fun......hugs Bigi
http://world-english.org/facts.htm
http://world-english.org/facts.htm
Samstag, 17. März 2012
Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012
Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012
Some more useless bits of infos.............
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the statement "to get fired."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
That´s it for now......................................see what I can find for later............hugs Bigi :-)
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the statement "to get fired."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
That´s it for now......................................see what I can find for later............hugs Bigi :-)
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