Octothorpe - The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
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The original name for "Pac-Man" was actually "Puck Man"... but the game designers decided that it would be too easy for some punk kids to scratch out part of the letter "P" and make it something completely different. :smile:
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A whale's penis is known as a "Dork". [/FONT]
- [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A blue whale's testicles are as large as a volkswagon beetle.[/FONT]
Centipedes always have an uneven number of walking legs. What's up with that?
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]The word "tip," meaning a gratuity, was originally an acronym standing for "To Insure Promptness."[/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]In 1995, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration employee bought six plastic owls at Wal-Mart to protect the space shuttle from woodpeckers.
(Alright... sorry for all the random facts! I'm going to stop now. :smile: )
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(Alright... sorry for all the random facts! I'm going to stop now. :smile: )
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Okay, I have one more to share! Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a trained sniper! Hehehe... that's funny to me!
Ruth Westheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth Westheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The rate of change from light to dark occurs greatest around the equinox. Boy it's getting dark quicker and quicker this week!
If you bash your head badly and then within the next couple of days get a runny nose, go and see a doctor!
It could be your brain fluid leaking. Most people just think they're gettin a cold and then die within a week.
sorry, thats a bit rough really. lol
It could be your brain fluid leaking. Most people just think they're gettin a cold and then die within a week.
sorry, thats a bit rough really. lol
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe!
