Weird Facts

didn't finish, but it was pretty cool. thought the $ was based on the symbol for peso, though.

'The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.' I never knew that.

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'The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.'

That's ironic.

Maybe the crooks will take the suggestion from the plates and do some kind of heaven's gate mass suicide thing since they are not 'living free'. Keep your fingers crossed.

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

wrong, the dollar symbol is an old spanish symbol for 'pieces of 8'

Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.

wrong, it is an ancient chinese game

i'll stop now

Ghostrideryyz, You are misinformed on the US Dollar symbol. If you leek at Really old US currency It looks like a U over an S. Then as time goes onn the U turned into just two vertical lines. || like so. And then just one line. I collect coins and money and stuff. I am a loser and meep proud of it. Thats why I am a swarmer trie dand true for at least the past two days or so.

if you look at really old spanish manuscripts, you will find $ as a money symbol.

HAHAHAHA......I am TEH WIN !!1!

^^ yeah I stopped at #2 myself how does : 'The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)'

do that? let's see an S ok, but the Line? | is that a u? ok, I see 2 lines, paralell somehow become connected right?

U != |

pfft... I'm still stuck at #1: 'Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.'

Barbie IS life size. So am I and so is my chair and my house and that tree. Barbie's a doll. She's not coming to life and getting bigger.

'British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as 'pounds/shillings/pence', abbreviated 'L/s/d' (libra/solidus/denarius). '

Lingua Franca!

'Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.'

BULLmeep!!!

Your nose and ears stop growing when the rest of you stops growing... when you DIE. Nothing 'NEVER' stops growing. Except of course my contept for misquoted facts.

'wrong, the dollar symbol is an old spanish symbol for 'pieces of 8''

You sir,are WRONG!! The $ is merely a capital 4.Duh

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Barch97: Nothing 'NEVER' stops growing. Except of course my contept for misquoted facts.

Right, barch. They really meant that the cemeteries were full of acre after acre of still-growing cartilage splitting through coffins and providing future generations with rich soil.

You meep.

I don't know what they 'meant' but, I do know what they said. They said '...our nose and ears never stop growing.'

Of course only a moron would assume that that is what they meant but the fact remains... they're presenting these ideas as 'fact' and they're not taking the neccessary care to phrase them in such a way that they are factual.

Take for example: 'Emus cannot walk backwards.' That may be true but maybe it's not. It's a statement that cannot be proven. Maybe no one has ever observed an emu walking backwards. That doesn't neccessarily mean they can't. Maybe you just haven't given them the proper motivation to attempt it. Maybe they're incredible optomic forward thinking creatures that refuse to relive the past. Maybe they just don't understand what you mean when say 'Hey there emu, walk backwards, would ya?'

You have to teach them when they're young, like piano or French.

Lots of typos, repeat entries, and some facts that I read were not really true, such as the story about 'Ring Around the Rosey' being related to the Bubonic Plague (which was first related to me by a tour guide in London). Later on I read that this is a common fallacy (http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm).

Wkipipedia it aint, but a fun read. ... Hmm, 'octothorpe'?

Yeah, stop arguing about the Dollar sign you losers.

$ <-- US Dollar = Worthless paper <-- Pounds Sterling = teh money!

But if you look at the old US currency....wait I don't give a meep.

20 newborn opossums can fit into a tablespoon.