The myth you linked is not about keeping your eyes open while sneezing. It's about your eyes popping out of your sockets if you keep them open, which they disproved.
The longest German word actually used (not contrived) is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, which means "beef labeling regulation and delegation of supervision law".
PS: You can listen to me try to pronounce it here. I make no assurances about the quality of my German accent. :P
The myth you linked is not about keeping your eyes open while sneezing. It's about your eyes popping out of your sockets if you keep them open, which they disproved.
They disproved it by keeping their eyes open while sneezing...
The Chinese character for thunder contains 52 strokes, and is pronounced "ping"
1/4 of all mammal species are bats
The smells of gardenia and orange blossom cancel each other out
North America has a higher percentage of wilderness than Africa
90% of bird species are monogamous, but only 3% of mammals
Coca Cola was originally green
Sharks are immune to cancer
The crack of a whip is actually a sonic boom
The U.S. city with the highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists is Washington D.C.
Mark Twain never graduated elementary school
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year
Flammable and inflammable are synonyms
King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes
Honey does not spoil (and edible honey has been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs)
36 percent of Americans claim that God has personally spoken to them
The longest German word actually used (not contrived) is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, which means "beef labeling regulation and delegation of supervision law".
PS: You can listen to me try to pronounce it here. I make no assurances about the quality of my German accent. :P
LOL
but you did quite a good job actually saying it! ;-D
The longest German word actually used (not contrived) is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, which means "beef labeling regulation and delegation of supervision law".
PS: You can listen to me try to pronounce it here. I make no assurances about the quality of my German accent. :P
Wow, in australia anything that long counts as a conversation.
The myth you linked is not about keeping your eyes open while sneezing. It's about your eyes popping out of your sockets if you keep them open, which they disproved.
They disproved it by keeping their eyes open while sneezing...
Not on that site. They held their eyes open, that's different. :)
While on the topic of Platypi (Platypuses?), they are the only venomous mammal.
Not true. Some shrews are venomous, too.
The Greeks knew the earth was round- they observed its shadow on the moon during eclipses.
I stand corrected. I did not know about the shrews. Thanks.
Regarding the Greeks (and hoping I am not wrong again), not only did they know it was round, Eratosthenes even estimated, in 205 BCE, the circumference to be 40,000km. (That's pretty close, by the way.)
Yip he did it by measuring the shadow a stick left in two locations, then measured the distance between the two and the difference in degrees of the angle, then just completed the circle
Haha The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
Don't have any sources in front of me, but I don't think that is true. I would be surprised if a three toed sloth could jump. Also, whales can not jump, they breach. ;)
Crabs have a larger build then lice and pubic hair grows farther apart then the hair on your head that is why you cannot get lice in you public hair and crabs in the hair on your head!
The capital of Canada was originally Kingston but was later moved to Ottawa (NOT TORONTO) so that it would be farther from the United States border.
enemas (or coffee enema) have no scientific proof of having any positive health affects on the human body in fact many physicians recommend against it as it may cause harm to your bowels.
The most random facts I know that I can think of at the moment.
edit: bowls into bowels as the gestapo are in town :(
enimas (or coffee enima) have no scientific proof of having any positive health affects on the human body in fact many physicians recommend against it as it may cause harm to your bowls.
The world's biggest tyre manufacturing group was started by a man called Ishibashi, whose name means stone bridge. But he transposed the name to make it Bridgestone.
enimas (or coffee enima) have no scientific proof of having any positive health affects on the human body in fact many physicians recommend against it as it may cause harm to your bowels.
The most random facts I know that I can think of at the moment.
edit: bowls into bowels as the gestapo are in town :(
Goodyear once made a tire entirely out of corn.
The average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long before wearing out.
When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the moon, they had to go through US Customs.
For many decades, most of the polyvinyl acetate used as a synthetic base for chewing gum was produced by the Hercules Powder Company, a division of DuPont whose main product was explosives.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
Identical twins have different fingerprints.
Some Japanese Macaque monkeys make and play with snowballs.
One species of penguin lives along the equator.
The most lopsided American football game in history was Georgia Tech over Cumberland University in 1916: 222-0
Poison dart frogs synthesize their toxin from the ants they eat, and may produce different toxins or none at all with a different diet.
