# Response to Factiod Emails **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/response-to-factiod-emails/60179 "2001-03-30T23:00:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skott)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/response-to-factiod-emails/60179/1 "2001-03-30T23:00:31Z")
After getting sick of emails making the rounds with questionable factiods, I decided to provide a commentary: \>1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Make sure they’re stored in the proper size Tupperware container. \>2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Dynamite Recipe: 1 cup nitroglycerine 1/4 cup ammonia nitrate 4 T sodium nitrate 2 T crushed peanuts 1 cup sawdust 1 plastic cylinder Combine the first four ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Line the plastic cylinder with sawdust, add nitro mixture. Serve with a side of matches. \>3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. None of which any of your friends can give you when you want something from the vending machines. \>4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing. The right hand is usually too busy drinking coffee. \>5. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. Which limits its sneezing abilities. See #28. \>6. There are more chickens than people in the world. And that’s not counting the birds. \>7. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey. Which gives us another reason to remove New Jersey from the Union. \>8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” Except when a screech is actually performed. \>9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. I guess they were expecting a lot more from NAFTA than we had figured. \>10. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20. Which is equal to the number of swear words in the movie. \>11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. Which makes it hard to write a poem/song about the date a miner found the motherload in Florida while eating grapes. \>12. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. I dunno. I think the word “President” ends in “mt” as well. \>13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. This was true even before 1959. Pretty impressive, eh? \>14. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Makes sense; both have similar seeds. \>15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. Makes it sound like his mom was dancing at the time… \>16. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. Which is about all the inhabitants can pronounce. \>17. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Question: What four words can be used to describe Florida’s election process? \>18. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” The Spanish must have had a tremendous amount of foresight to name the city, roughly translated “The Place Where If You Breath The Air, You Will Become An Angel Immediately.” \>19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. None of which are used when you call them. \>20. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. Guess creation had to make up for the squid. \>21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Have _you_ ever seen a naked tiger? \>22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. So the watch advertised is only right twice a day; once if on military time. \>23. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. Sure! Caskets were his top seller. \>24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Which still doesn’t explain Bert’s constant rhinoplasty ability and Ernie’s fondness for his rubber duckie. \>25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. Which makes singles bars _very_ crowded. \>26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. Wonder how much time and money was spent figuring that out. \>27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. Which a vending machine counts each time to make sure it’s a real dime. \>28. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Unless you’re a fish. \>29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Which gives contact production lines a particularly challenging task. \>30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. You would think the US would have the same rule. Maybe it should apply to Congress as well. \>31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Or maybe the new secretary had just walked by. \>32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. He’s the one who married King Friday XIII and Queen Sara Saturday. \>33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Which is enough time to count exactly 420 sheep. \>34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. None of which you can find when you slice it through the windshield of a car on the nearby highway. \>35. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Anything I say here can get me in trouble…