Strange but interesting facts

Sykk

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Okay mine may not be THAT interesting, anyone else got some?

Adam

nothing rhymes with silver either!

orourkeda

Sykk wrote: »

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Okay mine may not be THAT interesting, anyone else got some?

A corange line is a line on a map that joins areas of equal tide range.

Corange\Orange: Anyone spot the similarity?

Duggy747

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

I know what rhymes with month :pac:

ballsymchugh

orange schmorange

Vicxas

Duggy747 wrote: »

I know what rhymes with month :pac:

Punt?!

david75

silver...builder

purple..nurple

orange..blemange (ok thats a reach)

titsmahgee

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

The_Kew_Tour

17 days since WW2 has there not been war in any country throughout the world.

We live in world full of wars.

Sparks43

Every 1.73 minutes a gob****e posts a useless thread on AH

AlmightyCushion

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Someone doesn't watch QI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes#Words_with_obscure_perfect_rhymes

orourkeda

In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.

El Guapo!

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month.

Not true. I got a purple nurple once. It hurt.

o1s1n

Adam wrote: »

nothing rhymes with silver either!

Chilver!

orourkeda

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Someone doesn't watch QI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes#Words_with_obscure_perfect_rhymes

Precisely. The auld corange

_feedback_

63.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

leakyboots

http://slices-of-life.com/2007/09/05/top-53-words-that-rhyme-with-orange/

The Waltzing Consumer

They are not interesting. They are not even facts.

Orange-sporange
Month-punt-grunt-shunt
Purple-curple-slurple-nurple

Sykk

Sparks43 wrote: »

Every 1.73 minutes a gob****e posts a useless thread on AH

Every 0.5 of a minute, a worse dickhead makes a useless response :pac:

orourkeda

Sparks43 wrote: »

Every 1.73 minutes a gob****e posts a useless thread on AH

1.73 seconds

Sykk

leakyboots wrote: »

http://slices-of-life.com/2007/09/05/top-53-words-that-rhyme-with-orange/

The words that rhyme according to that page...

Amaze

Arrange

Baggage

Blamange?

Brains

Bunge

Challenge

Duggy747

As for what rhymes with Orange, say "aren't" in a thick Norn Iron accent. :P

Look at the zipper on your fly, see the letters YKK? That stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha




















You've now realised how odd you looked searching for the letters on your fly

Sparks43

Sykk wrote: »

Every 0.5 of a minute, a worse dickhead makes a useless response :pac:

Useless response ^:D

orourkeda

titsmahgee wrote: »

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

It is.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/****

castletownman

No glass was made in China between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. As Europeans were drinkers of wine and the Chinese weren't the invention of glass by Europeans to store wine, led to the invention of the telescope, reading glasses, which extended writers' and scientists' reading life by 10-15 years, and scientific beakers all of which weren't introduced to China until the nineteenth century. So it can be said that the invention of the tea-cup changed the course of Chinese history

FreudianSlippers

titsmahgee wrote: »

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

Only if you're a culchie who pronounces Month as "munt"

pickarooney

Some interesting tidbits on there:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heighth
So the last H did once exist

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/width
Who knew the D was pronounced?

What does 'Refractory one-syllable rhymes' mean? I can't follow that section.

titsmahgee

orourkeda wrote: »

It is.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/****

well thats a strange but interesting fact

prinz

Vicxas wrote: »

Punt?!

titsmahgee wrote: »

Month - C*nt?
Guess thats not in the dictionary though:p

Month is not pronounced 'munt'. Edit: Beaten to it.

clived2

Sykk wrote: »

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month

Oh so it thats time of the month
I will show this cunt
Oh! nobody can rhyme with orange
I will smash your head in a door hinge
Leaving your head purple
Pursued by a purple nurple

FreudianSlippers

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Only if you're a culchie who pronounces Month as "munt"

Albert Einstein's nurse was the only one in the room with him when he died and she told friends/family that he said something to her before he died.
People were sure that it was something very important to do with his work, but we'll never know...


his nurse didn't speak German.

:mad:

titsmahgee

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Only if you're a culchie who pronounces Month as "munt"

or else a ross o carroll kelly wannabe who pronounces c*nt as cont?

cock robin

elviscostello wrote: »

63.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Thats only 42.76% accurate.:D

FreudianSlippers

titsmahgee wrote: »

or else a ross o carroll kelly wannabe who pronounces c*nt as cont?

che woz being a roysh cont!

mah hood

Danbo!

In the year 2010, exaggerations went up a billion percent

jennytightlips

month and cnut sound the same if said in a dublin accent lol

thebullkf

cock robin wrote: »

Thats only 42.76% accurate.:D

33% of people actually believe that...:pac:

Tubsandtiles

It is pretty easy to act smart but that's just stupid

nobby grande

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Albert Einstein's nurse was the only one in the room with him when he died and she told friends/family that he said something to her before he died.
People were sure that it was something very important to do with his work, but we'll never know...


his nurse didn't speak German.

:mad:

Einstein also spoke English, he probably just cursed in German saying he was about to croak it.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAeinstein.htm
(3) Eugene Wigner first met Albert Einstein in 1925. He wrote about this meeting in a book published in 1979.

The personal characteristic of Einstein that is most vividly in my mind and that I like to recall most is his feeling of equality with his colleagues, his appreciation and in fact reciprocation of their friendship. My love and early admiration of physics (I studied chemical engineering) owes very much to the seminar he organized in the early twenties in Berlin on statistical mechanics. Many of the participants at the seminar, including myself, were encouraged to visit him at his home, to have personal conversations with him. We discussed, at such occasions, not only statistical mechanics, not only physics, but also personal problems, and the problems of society. His deep insights had a lasting effect on most of us, but the exchange of opinions was on an equal basis and he responded with interest to the remarks which his visitors made. In somewhat later years the subject of such conversations often turned toward politics, and his condemnation of all dictatorships, particularly Hitler's, had a great deal of influence on his friends and students. But even as far as the USSR is concerned, he wrote, when he was asked to sign a petition: 'Because of the glorification of Soviet Russia, which it includes, I cannot bring myself to sign it.'

It became more difficult for him to maintain a similarly cordial relation with his colleagues, older and younger, after moving to Princeton. Though he could speak English, he never felt at home with it. But his relations with numerous collaborators in Princeton were always cordial and, even though they were not only less widely recognized, but also considerably younger than he was, he never talked down to them, and treated them as equals. He loved to take walks, often with friends like myself, with whom the conversation was in German.

happyoutscan

The vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th century.

So that explains it.

FreudianSlippers

nobby grande wrote: »

Einstein also spoke English, he probably just cursed in German saying he was about to croak it.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAeinstein.htm
(3) Eugene Wigner first met Albert Einstein in 1925. He wrote about this meeting in a book published in 1979.

The personal characteristic of Einstein that is most vividly in my mind and that I like to recall most is his feeling of equality with his colleagues, his appreciation and in fact reciprocation of their friendship. My love and early admiration of physics (I studied chemical engineering) owes very much to the seminar he organized in the early twenties in Berlin on statistical mechanics. Many of the participants at the seminar, including myself, were encouraged to visit him at his home, to have personal conversations with him. We discussed, at such occasions, not only statistical mechanics, not only physics, but also personal problems, and the problems of society. His deep insights had a lasting effect on most of us, but the exchange of opinions was on an equal basis and he responded with interest to the remarks which his visitors made. In somewhat later years the subject of such conversations often turned toward politics, and his condemnation of all dictatorships, particularly Hitler's, had a great deal of influence on his friends and students. But even as far as the USSR is concerned, he wrote, when he was asked to sign a petition: 'Because of the glorification of Soviet Russia, which it includes, I cannot bring myself to sign it.'

It became more difficult for him to maintain a similarly cordial relation with his colleagues, older and younger, after moving to Princeton. Though he could speak English, he never felt at home with it. But his relations with numerous collaborators in Princeton were always cordial and, even though they were not only less widely recognized, but also considerably younger than he was, he never talked down to them, and treated them as equals. He loved to take walks, often with friends like myself, with whom the conversation was in German.

I know he also spoke English quite well... it's just that he was on his death bed and probably said it to whoever was there, not really knowing what language they understood.

It's just one of those facts that we don't know what his final words were because he said them in German and the nurse spoke none.

Way to totally overanalyse it :P

Timothy Bryce

Sykk wrote: »

Every 0.5 of a minute, a worse dickhead makes a useless response :pac:

i am that d1ckhead.

many thanks and warmest regards.

TimeToShine

It's impossible for a woman to touch her elbows together.









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hidinginthebush

TimeToShine wrote: »

It's impossible for a woman to touch her elbows together.









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Behind their back though or you're doing it wrong!

captainjack

There are more squid in the oceans than fish.

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

Luap

Adam wrote: »

nothing rhymes with silver either!

badger :P

antodeco

captainjack wrote: »

There are more squid in the oceans than fish.

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

Prove it :pac:

Duggy747

captainjack wrote: »

There are more squid in the oceans than fish.

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

Who counted the sand? :pac:

FreudianSlippers

captainjack wrote: »

There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

A LOT more.

Estimated there is 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand on Earth.
Estimated there are between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars in our GALAXY.
The the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10

So even taking the lower estimate of stars in the Milky Way and assuming that it is the average number of stars in each galaxy (which it probably isn't since our Milky Way seems to be a relatively medium to medium-small galaxy then:
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21

So, rounding the numbers for clarity to a number of sand grains at 10^20 and round the number of stars to 10^22 then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.

whatsamsn

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

A LOT more.

Estimated there is 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand on Earth.
Estimated there are between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars in our GALAXY.
The the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10

So even taking the lower estimate of stars in the Milky Way and assuming that it is the average number of stars in each galaxy (which it probably isn't since our Milky Way seems to be a relatively medium to medium-small galaxy then:
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21

So, rounding the numbers for clarity to a number of sand grains at 10^20 and round the number of stars to 10^22 then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fy1eTe3FPU

Gulliver

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

A LOT more.

Estimated there is 7.5 x 10^18 grains of sand on Earth.
Estimated there are between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars in our GALAXY.
The the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10

So even taking the lower estimate of stars in the Milky Way and assuming that it is the average number of stars in each galaxy (which it probably isn't since our Milky Way seems to be a relatively medium to medium-small galaxy then:
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21

So, rounding the numbers for clarity to a number of sand grains at 10^20 and round the number of stars to 10^22 then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.

Pics or GTFO :pac: