Really unecessary knowledge

On the first of August 1933 monopoly was invented.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th, 1826, exactly 50 years after they both signed the declaration of independence.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

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Fun Words to play with

For five years, Webster's New International Dictionary mistakenly included an entry for dord, a word which did not exist.

Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands. (one letter at a time)

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

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

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Five facts u didnt want to know about animals.

If a frog eats enough fireflies, its stomach will glow.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Peguins cannot walk backwards.

In the amanzon river there are freshwater dolphins that are colored pink.

Sea cucumbers "breathe" through their butts.

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World´s not fair

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.

In 1982, the Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate TRON for the special effects' Academy Award, because they said the movie's use of computer-generated images was 'cheating'.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.

It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.

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Some sorts of Phobia

Aerophobia: fear of heights
Bronophobia: fear of thunderstorms
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words
Odontophobia: fear of teeth
Hydrophobia: fear of water
Arachibutyrophobia: fear of peanut-butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
Pelodophobia: fear of baldness
Maniaphobia: fear of insanity
Melophobia: fear of music
Geniophobia: fear of chins
Phobophobia: fear of being afraid of something
Vestiphobia: fear of clothing
Ailurophobia: the fear of cats

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Funny Facts

It´s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world´s population is drunk.

Mel Blanc, voice artist speaking Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

In 1961, Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside down for two months in the Museum of Modern Art, New York - none of the visitors noticed it.

The spanish word for handcuffs is 'esposas' which also means wives.

There are more pigs than humans in Denmark.

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Unusual weddings

In 1976 Jannene Swift married a Stone with a weight of 50 pound in Los Angeles. 

1999 Chang Hsi-Hsum married a barbie, in the thought that the sould of his dead wife would life in it. He was in hope he can save her soul, after she killed herself, because his parents didint accept the marriage.

6 years later Sharon Tandler married her big love Cindy. She loved her for about 15 years. The only problem was, that "Cindy" was an 15 year old dolphin, which she first met in Eilat in Israel.

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Youtube - Facts

This is the first video ever uploaded on youtube and those are the first two comments:

• Interesting....
  COBALTGRUV 6 years ago 
  
• ...concept this YouTube. Wonder what will become of it? ;)
  zyrexoid 4 years ago  

I dont know the reason for the time given, there is just another comment written before on the video, but youtube-community says those are the first two, so i belive it ;)



Youtube leaves out the second last second on every video.

If yout see the load-circle on a youtube-video, hold the left-arrow-key and hit the up-arrow-key once, after that u are able to play snake. (But dont let the snake reach the edge of the video ;))

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Singing penis

A tiny water boatman is the loudest animal on Earth relative to its body size, a study has revealed.

Scientists from France and Scotland recorded the aquatic animal "singing" at up to 99.2 decibels, the equivalent of listening to a loud orchestra play while sitting in the front row.
The insect makes the sound by rubbing its penis against its abdomen in a process known as "stridulation".

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Five facts about the world

New Zealand got two national anthems.

The Philippine flag has inter alia two stripes: A blue on the top for peace and justice and a red on the bottom for the willingness to defend the homeland. In times of of war the stripes were changend.

The british Labour Party is singing her party anthem to the tune of  the German christmas song "O Tannenbaum".

Adolf Lu Hitler R. Marak is a politician in India. In his federal state it is usual to give your children unusual names.

The US-government accidently introduced a manual  on the internet in 2006: It explained how to build nuclear bombs.

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