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Amazing facts, nobody believes

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Bluesmanager said:
Actually, it is possible, as any fan of Brainiac: Science Abuse will tell you.
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I'm prety sure that you could dislocate your shoulder to achieve it. It's just a wonder why no-one has tried that before.

Agree with SB. Most of these don't make you stop and think for a long time (e.g. Forest fire's spread uphill more quickly because heat rises)
 
The numbers on Chinese menus are standardised throughout the world.

This efficiency was introduced as part of the Great leap forward to streamline the entire catering industry and also introduced the word 'sundries' into the lexicon. Etymologists agree the word did not exist prior to 1958.
 
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Bluesmanager said:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the longest place name in the English language.

Can you imagine writing a letter to someone there?

ETA: It's so long, the computer automatically puts a space in!
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The name on the sign that marks this hill is 'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu', which translates roughly as The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his flute to his loved one. At 85 letters, it is one of the longest placenames in the world.

The longer form Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu has 92 letters, and has been entered into the Guinness Book of Records as such. It is apparently more recent, or perhaps more formal. There are claims that the second version of the name, which is now shown on the sign, has been in use all along by local Māori. The Welsh argue[citation needed] that this version has been contrived to be longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which some others argue[attribution needed] was contrived to be the longest British place name in the first place.
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Wiki says its only one of the longest, not the longest. Surely its the longest in the Maori language, not the English language. Finally, can anyone provide a citation to prove that the Welsh argue?
 
Vange Shrimper said:
You can shoot a Welshman within Chester on a Sunday with a bow and arrow and the same in York, within the walls, to a Scotsman. This is still legal :D
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No its not , was repiled a few years back when they got rid of loads of medievial laws (The Sanctury one as well )

Did you know if Sheep lack protein in their diet they will eat baby grouse :D.

The Earth as between 2 to 5 moons (depending on classifaction of moons)

Sir Issac Newton both studyed and master Astrology

Constance Wilde (wife of Oscar Wilde) was a member of a Estoertic Society called the Order of the Golden Dawn.
 
osymandus said:
No its not , was repiled a few years back when they got rid of loads of medievial laws (The Sanctury one as well )

Did you know if Sheep lack protein in their diet they will eat baby grouse :D.

The Earth as between 2 to 5 moons (depending on classifaction of moons)

Sir Issac Newton both studyed and master Astrology

Constance Wilde (wife of Oscar Wilde) was a member of a Estoertic Society called the Order of the Golden Dawn.
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someone watches QI

I've got one- Ring a Ring of Roses is not about the Plague.
 
Random language fact...

Nouns have:

1 case in English, French, Italian and Spanish
4 cases in German
6 cases in Latin

and

26 cases in Finnish.

:eek:
 
Napster said:
Rubbish. English nouns also take a genitive, for a start e.g. The children's books

:)
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I knew you'd pipe up...

:thump:

Is that really a separate case of the noun (I noted that you said it "takes a genitive", rather than "it has a genitive case"), or simply a contracted form so as to dispense of the need for a preposition, which is what happens with every other "case" of an English noun (and indeed with the genitive - e.g. of the children...)

:confused:
 
Matt the Shrimp said:
I knew you'd pipe up...

:thump:

Is that really a separate case of the noun (I noted that you said it "takes a genitive", rather than "it has a genitive case"), or simply a contracted form so as to dispense of the need for a preposition, which is what happens with every other "case" of an English noun (and indeed with the genitive - e.g. of the children...)

:confused:
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It's more commonly known as the English possessive case - and derived from the Old English case suffix -es
 
A couple more

The Norse creation mythos, has the creation of the universe , owing to a gigantic cow licking a dripping lump of ice.

An Early Egyptian myth holds the elder God Tum created the universe and stars by ... well taking himself in hand and making all other things and Gods (except Thoth)
 
Napster said:
It's more commonly known as the English possessive case - and derived from the Old English case suffix -es
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Ah, well, I stand corrected.

:thump: :D

Anyhow, thanks a bunch for ruining the major thrust of the previous post, which was that:

English has 2 cases.

Finnish has 26.

:p
 
South Bank Hank said:
Yes, but this is an amazing facts, nobody believes thread. How else could you hope to start a Universe!?...

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What ! Its a fact some one wrote it down ;) And most people dont believe it ;)

Migrant workers ? Maybe we shipped them in from another universe ?

Ok heres another Duck billed Platapie (the plural ?) Are quite posinous , they have a small venom sac and a spike under their webbed feet
 
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