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Factual Questions
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Cool collection of trivia…
How about adding :

‘Jesus Wept.’

Shortest verse in the Bible too. John 11:35.

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That’s why I never eat Twinkies…nasty nasty things are they!

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  1. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are not a couple. They are a drawing of a couple. (-R. Magritte?)

  2. I think I’ve heard that Barbie’s waist size actually scales to something like 18, not 23.

  3. The shortest sentence I can come up with, and I think this one is hard to beat if it’s legit, is “O!” No subject or object, but hey, I think it would make it into the New York Times.

  4. If you’re allowed to count backwards, you reach “a” a whole lot sooner than one thousand: Negative one.

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Or if you count in Spanish, Quatro(4)

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“O!” is not technically a sentence (having no subject or predicate), but, rather, is an interjection. Still, as you said, it would work in the Times.

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60 minutes has a theme song “tick tick tick tick…”

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It’s Cuatro. I think Quatro (Quattro?) is Italian. Sorry for bothering you. Pointless post. Carry on. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Actually, the Ring Around the Rosie thing is from the Bubonic plague. I can go look it up, but I’m not sure if I want to bother.

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This is from the guidebook to the “History of London” section of Madame Tussaud’s.

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You shouldn’t have bothered, hypergirl, cuz actually, that’s not the origin of the Ring Around thr Rosie thing according to snopes:
http://128.242.205.65/spoons/fracture/rosie.htm

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Snopes claims that’s also not true.

And BTW, nineiron – Technically, “Go” is not a complete sentence. It has no subject. The subject is simply implied, the complete sentence there would be, “You go.”

Cecil had something to say about ‘the whole 9 yards’ thing here and there was a follow-up to it at the end of this article which deals directly with the claim of the OP statement and states that the phrase didn’t show up in print until the mid-1960s.

And at Hershey’s webpage it says “While it’s not known exactly how Hershey’s Kisses got their name, it is a popular theory that the candy was named for the sound or motion of the chocolate being deposited during the manufacturing process.” I think if anyone would be able to verify that, it would be Hershy’s, but seeing as they only say it’s a theory, I wouldn’t put too much stock in that little bit of trivia.

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I just had another thought: wouldn’t “I do” also be a complete sentence?

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So I guess that disproves the “I am” statement. I’m willing to bet not many more of those are going to be factual. I have heard about Tom Saywer being the first novel typed on a typewriter before, but I don’t remember where.

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Here’s a site that claims Mark Twain was indeed the first. He wrote letters on one initially.
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cymach4.html
Peace,
mangeorge

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As to food, I don’t think lutefisk spoils.

And if it did, who would know?

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Likewise gefiltefish.
Peace,
mangeorge

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Does sugar count as a food? Because I don’t believe it spoils, either, if kept dry.

For that matter, what about salt? But now we may be stretching the definition…

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So what does qualify as a food? Why isn’t sugar a food? Why is honey?

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The multiplication one and the “One Thousand” one are true. I would not be in the least surprised if they were the only “facts” in that list that are.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It amazes me that nobody’s ever thought of this, but although most U.S. fighter planes in WWII carried .50 cal guns as their main armament, the ammo loaded per gun was not the same from plane to plane or even loadout to loadout. There wasn’t a standard ammo belt length.

The phrase “the whole nine yards” has never been shown to have been attached to this concept.