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:: October 21, 2002 ::

Chain Mail No. 3. Some Pretty Useless Things to Know.

Ok, ok. so I did say I hate Chain Mails. I hit a personal chain mail-received-record of sort this morning. I received a second FUNNY chain mail in a month. Read it and see if I am wrong. Would you be kind enough to Tag me for the number of the funniest item below?

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it




The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. (I wonder what insects above average humans eat and what insects humans eat during the day.)




The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)




The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.




Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."




Marilyn Monroe had six toes.(I have ten. lol)




Women blink nearly twice as much as men.




Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)




The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.(hmmm.. africa, antartica, arabia, asia, europe, south america,
north america...HEY!!!!)




The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.




If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
(If the Population of India walked past you in single file, you'll damage your olfactory organs. What a splendidly horrible idea!!!)




A snail can sleep for 3 years.




American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.




China has more English speakers than the United States.




The electric chair was invented by a dentist.(So that's why)




Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.




The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.(NOTE: I google checked this.
See my note below for more useless information on the longest word.)




Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.




A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?).




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




In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.




If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck
twice the length of a normal human's




Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.




No word in the English language rhymes with month.(And what about cun_?)




The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.




Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.




In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.




Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.




Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.




One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.




Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.




If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)




If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)




The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.(O.M.G.!)




Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)




On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.




The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.(Hmmmmmm.......the tongue, yes the tongue- not the finger.)




Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.




You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider




In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.




A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.




Polar bears are left-handed.(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)




Butterflies taste with their feet.(Something I always wanted to know.)




Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.(OK, so that would be a good thing....)




A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) .




Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)




The male praying mantis cannot copulate with its head attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")




A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)




Some lions mate over 50 times a day.(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)




An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)




Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)




Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (I thought other primates did as well? What about that pig??)

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle)...in other words send it to everyone.

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TECHNICAL NOTES:(actually more useless information.)

The Longest English Word

The longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis defined as a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust (Source: OED). This 45 letter word first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1936, and has also since appeared in the Webster's Third New International Dictionary (under the alternate spelling of -konioisis), the Random House Unabridged Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, to name but a few. In Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, in several separate articles (May 1985, pp. 95-96; November 1986, pp. 205-206; May 1987, p. 82), researchers discovered that the word was made up wholesale in 1935 by by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzler's League, as an example of a theoretical word that might one day enter use if trends in medical word coinage were to continue. Research into the body of medical literature prior to his usage in 1935 have never successfully shown that the word existed prior to his coinage.

The Longest Real English Word

The Guinness Book of Records in 1992 (and subsequent editions) declares the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the US Senate (Senator Jesse Helms used the word in 1999 during the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [Randolph V. Cinco]) and at the White House (by Press Secretary Mike McCurry in his December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing).

The well-known song-title from the movie Mary Poppins Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with 34 letters does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun, and defined in reference to the song title. Hence it may well be dismissed as a "real" word.

Place Names

There is some debate as to whether or not a place name is a legitimate word. Without entering that debate, let it be noted that the longest officially recognised place name in an English-speaking country is:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

(85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.

Best Known Longest English Word

Antidisestablishmentarianism (A movement opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is popularly believed to be the longest word. It is arguably the "best-known"

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