The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Dang, no baseball bat?
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Noooooo, not the elephant!
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
....Oh jeez. So glad I'm not a praying mantis. =="
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
...This calls for an experiment!
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would
find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden....
and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
I bet you're one of the 9 people.
Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
No wonder I'm so short!
If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.
The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
The word "testis" cames from the Latin meaning to bear witness. In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another's testicles.
I seriously laughed at this. Who knew?
There are 4 words in the English dictionary that doesn't rhyme with anything. Those are:
Month
Purple
Orange and
Silver
I know you're trying to rhyme it but it's just not possible.
The human brain is 80% water.]
And apparently there's a place in your brain where if it's touched by water, you die.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
That's a lot of elephants.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
O_O I don't know if this is true but if it is, my hair would be overflowing with zinc and copper :P Jokes.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
and...
Stewardesses is the longest word that can be made by using only the left hand.
40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
I fear that McDonalds will try and increase the population :P
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Omg, I'm so watching Seinfeld now.
And since we're talking about sneezing...
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
Tip: Don't sneeze.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a milli-second.
Woow, didn't know that! Don't sneeze too much then ;)
This is one of my favourite sites. If you've been on the internet long enough, you'll probably get the jokes. Pretty much it's about lolcats and a few other random pictures. They are captioned by the people around the world.
This gave me a lol.
Visit here for more:
http://icanhascheezburger.com
Well I'm bored so I decided to find out what the longest palindrome was. And boy, it's long.
In fact, 15,139 words long. Yes, you heard me right.
http://www.norvig.com/pal1txt.html
Visit here to find out what it is.
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