The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
Adolf Hitler lived in Liverpool for a while, apparently, just before WW1.
"When I am gone, it won't be long before I disturb you in the dark."
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
In 1970, "MCI" stood for "Microwave Communications, Inc." No longer used as an acronym, it now stands alone.
Rats cannot hold fear for more than 20 minutes.
McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are made of mechanically separated chicken. (Look it up- it's gross)
Originally Posted by Bruno Spatola
Total codswallop...
A man in possession of a wooden spoon must be in want of a pot to stir.
Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone.
Last edited by Bloggsworth; 12-15-2011 at 09:23 PM.
A man in possession of a wooden spoon must be in want of a pot to stir.
Sternutation is the scientific word for the act of sneezing.
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"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~ E L Doctorow
"If you steal from one author, it's plaigiarism; if you steal from many, it's research." ~ Wilson Mizner
"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer." ~ Isaac Singer
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I ahve the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk." ~ Stephen King
A duck's quack does echo, contrary to popular internet-lore.
Insert profundity here.
The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles. The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is, quite ironically, the fear of long words.
The first ever televised murder case appeared on TV in 1955, Dec. 5-9. The accused was Harry Washburn.
Rookwood Cemetry is the dead centre of Sydney, Australia.
Actually, it was his brother, Alois. He married an Irish woman, Biddy, and their son, William Patrick Hitler, emigrated to the United States. There's more, but you can look it up yourselves.
And there was I think it was the irrational fear of hippopotomuses...
A man in possession of a wooden spoon must be in want of a pot to stir.
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