Lesser Known Facts

[Rayden]

I was talking to my friend today and he mentioned that while "fish" is used to describe multiple fish of the same species, "fishes" is used to describe multiple fish of which there are at least two species.

So if you had 3 goldfish, you have 3 fish. If you had 2 goldfish and a salmon, you have 3 fishes.


What sort of facts do you guys know that most people aren't aware of? Please limit responses to facts, nothing too opinionated, and nothing personal to your or your situation.

"I am sitting in the dark without any clothes" may not be known by many people, but who its not that interesting.

 

[Nikamichi]

I am sitting in the dark without any clothes.

 

[Brutuskend]

If you are average, the length between your wrist bone and your elbow is the same length as your foot!

And while we're on elbows, it is impossable to LICK your elbow!

(unless you are Gene Simmons)

 

[IronWing]

Bing Crosby never learned to play the piano.

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
If you are average, the length between your wrist bone and your elbow is the same length as your foot!

What if it's longer or shorter?

 

[scottish144]

Antidisastablismaterianism (Not sure of spelling, the longest word in the English dictionary) means the movement for the disastablishment of the catholic church in England.

 

[kirkaptain]

Not many people know this, but the turtle is nature's suction cup.

 

[gamepad]

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: NatePo717

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
If you are average, the length between your wrist bone and your elbow is the same length as your foot!

What if it's longer or shorter?

You are a FrEAk!

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: scottish144
Antidisastablismaterianism (Not sure of spelling, the longest word in the English dictionary) means the movement for the disastablishment of the catholic church in England.

Against that movement really, and not the Catholic church, the Aglican church. The Catholic church got booted long before antidisestblishmentarianism came into being.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
If you are average, the length between your wrist bone and your elbow is the same length as your foot!

The golden ratio. There are many, many more occurences of this.

 

[kirkaptain]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: scottish144
Antidisastablismaterianism (Not sure of spelling, the longest word in the English dictionary) means the movement for the disastablishment of the catholic church in England.

Against that movement really, and not the Catholic church, the Aglican church. The Catholic church got booted long before antidisestblishmentarianism came into being.

NOT the longest!
Try : Floccinaucinihilipilification - "the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by said means"

 

[Brutuskend]

Velcro was invented by a guy who was pulling burs out of his socks and noticed how the burs interacted with the fibers.

Unfortunately the machines to actually MAKE it weren't available until YEARS later.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: kirkaptain

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: scottish144
Antidisastablismaterianism (Not sure of spelling, the longest word in the English dictionary) means the movement for the disastablishment of the catholic church in England.

Against that movement really, and not the Catholic church, the Aglican church. The Catholic church got booted long before antidisestblishmentarianism came into being.

NOT the longest!
Try : Floccinaucinihilipilification - "the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by said means"

Well he got the England part right anyway, sort of, since it was wrt to Ireland and Scotland that the movement mostly pertained.

 

[everman]

There is no such thing as an "espresso bean", nor an "espresso roast", although commonly mistaken as some kind of very dark burnt and oily bean. Espresso can be made using any variety of beans, typically Arabica (sometimes a little robusta), roasted to varying degrees from light to dark.

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: kirkaptain

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: scottish144
Antidisastablismaterianism (Not sure of spelling, the longest word in the English dictionary) means the movement for the disastablishment of the catholic church in England.

Against that movement really, and not the Catholic church, the Aglican church. The Catholic church got booted long before antidisestblishmentarianism came into being.

NOT the longest!
Try : Floccinaucinihilipilification - "the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by said means"

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicvolcanoconiosis is longer, and in several dictionaries.

 

[JujuFish]

Since we're on long words, my favorite:
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian - adjective, pertaining to a very long word.

 

[amol]

It'd be funny if someone with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia walked into this thread

 

[kirkaptain]

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: kirkaptain

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: scottish144
Antidisastablismaterianism (Not sure of spelling, the longest word in the English dictionary) means the movement for the disastablishment of the catholic church in England.

Against that movement really, and not the Catholic church, the Aglican church. The Catholic church got booted long before antidisestblishmentarianism came into being.

NOT the longest!
Try : Floccinaucinihilipilification - "the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by said means"

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicvolcanoconiosis is longer, and in several dictionaries.

Indeed!

 

[JinLien]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: NatePo717

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
If you are average, the length between your wrist bone and your elbow is the same length as your foot!

What if it's longer or shorter?

You are a FrEAk!

My foot is shorter, and same as my gf....are we freaks?

 

[Spacehead]

Alesha Oreskovich is the only Playboy playmate to mention Heisenburg's Uncertanty Principle on her data sheet.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: kirkaptain
Not many people know this, but the turtle is nature's suction cup.

That is a GREAT movie!

ZV

 

[CKent]

Studies have found a correlation between testosterone and spatial intelligence. This may explain why women are such awful drivers.

Compared to their heterosexual counterparts, gay men tend to excel at English and be inferior at math (this may tie in to the testosterone factoid above; mathematic and spatial abilities are linked) (this definitely explains my HS English teachers).

 

[Soccer55]

City College of New York is the only team in college basketball history to win both the NIT and the NCAA Tournament in the same season (1950). Bradley University lost to CCNY in the finals of both tournaments.


-Tom

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Soccer55
City College of New York is the only team in college basketball history to win both the NIT and the NCAA Tournament in the same season (1950). Bradley University lost to CCNY in the finals of both tournaments.


-Tom

Are they now NYU?