INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

[anna]

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

Oh yeah, and for todays offering....


• The original game of "Monopoly" was circular
• It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World
• One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year
• Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words


Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

Your just looking these up on google now arent you

[_Stretchie_]

[quote="anna"]

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

Your just looking these up on google now arent you

That's a terrible thing to say

[anna]

[quote="_Stretchie_"]

Originally Posted by anna

That's a terrible thing to say

you mean it's true

[_Stretchie_]

Possibly...

A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot

Originally Posted by localhost

A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot

That's brilliant.
Where did you get that from?

Originally Posted by philipMac

That's brilliant.
Where did you get that from?

Well, as most things that was by word of mouth, but I have heard it from more than one place.

I will check in to it later on and see if i can trace it back to something reliable

[Quiff Wichard]

Archery is known officially as toxopholy ..




where theres a church in the country there will be a pub near it called the "new inn "... cos the church built it for the construction workers of said church... and hence it was a new "inn"..

look wen u drivin around..see a new inn- see a church

Originally Posted by localhost

A motorcycle courier in London have the same life expectancy as a WW2 fighter pilot

Eh?During the Battle of Britain, an RAF fighter pilot had a life expectancy of 14 days...

I read a book on the Moon landings and they may be true...

Originally Posted by The Basket

Eh?During the Battle of Britain, an RAF fighter pilot had a life expectancy of 14 days.....

Have you seen how some of them ride???? Id give them less than 14 days.

Though the current thinking by a mate in the know [having done it and now is in the office for the firm] you should expect a serious off every six months. Not necessarily fatal but enough to put you out of action for a fair while.

Ok, etymology is the origin and linguistic development of words. A good site for that is www.dictionary.com, which confirms Wyrdness' derivation of the term ******** btw.

Palace is actually derived from the hill in Rome where the wealthier population lived. This was the Palantine, the hill where Romulus was said to have built the first foundations of Rome.

Two months of the year are named after the Caesars. July after Julius, and August after Caesar Augustus. The remaining months are all derived from Roman origins too.

September - December were the seventh - tenth months of the calendar. January, February, March, May and June are named after Roman gods - Janus, Februus, Mars, Maiesta, and Juno. Only April is named from a word - aperire - which means to open.