The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black
>> Widow’s or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws
>> won’t open wide enough.
>> 2. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
>> 3. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
>> 4. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times,
>> but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the
>> bottom.
>> 5. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
>> 6. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
>> 7. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of
>> gas bursting.
>> 8. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon
>> features with both parents who are present and don’t die throughout the
>> movie.
>> 9. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
>> solid.
>> 10. There’s no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
>> 11. It’s impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
>> 12. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
>> 13. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne
>> cork than by a poisonous spider?
>> 14. In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your
>> head.
>> 15. In Indiana it is illegal to ride public
>> transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
>> 16. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
>> left-handed people do.
>> 17. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
>> 18. Polar bears are left-handed.
>> 19. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves
>> to death.
>> 20. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
>> 21. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
>> 22. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
>> 1896.
>> 23. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
>> 24. A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
>> clear.
>> 25. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
>> blood donors.
>> 26. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear
>> pants.
>> 27. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
>> crashes.
>> 28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
>> 30. Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”
>> 31. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
>> 32. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
>> white.
>> 33. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>> 34. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses
>> every letter in the English language.
>> 35. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
>> start with.
>> 36. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to
>> remember the word you want.
>> 37. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
>> only one row of the keyboard.
>> 38. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
>> would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>> 39. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
>> 40. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
>> from each salad served in first-class.
>> 41. China has more English speakers than the United States.
>> 42. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
>> 43. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
>> of 1,000 and a size 108.7 acres.
>> 44. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
>> 45. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the
>> world.
>> 46. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>> 47. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
>> refers to a distinct part of DNA.
>> 48. No president of the United States was an only child.
>> 49. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every
>> five must be straight.
>> These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other
>> emergencies.
>> 50. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
The most powerful muscle is the human heart. With 6 billion people on the planet there are more than 9000000 people on this planet with the same birthdate… Money doesn’t talk it SCREAMS-Bob Dylan 1965
People who were born more than 50 years ago are more likely to have died at the age of 50 than people born more recently. And until around 45 years ago, kids were discouraged in school from using their left hand, so natural born lefties who went to school in that era are more likely to have had their “handedness” switched.
I am left-handed, and, attending 1st grade in 1965, was not forced to change hands. I may live to be 110, but we won’t know that for some time to come.
Old list. MULAN can be added (her grandmother is alive at the end, too.), and so can HERCULES. But Disney did like orphans.
Drill a hole in it. Alternatively, use a hair dryer to evaporate it.
Not “North America” or “South America,” which are two separate continents.
Depends on your definition of “country.” The Sacred(?) Military Order of Malta (SMOM) is granted soverign status by some countries; it consists of one building in Rome.
A sentrence requires a subject and a verb and therefore must be two words. “Why?” and “go” are exclamations not sentences.
True
True
Close… it’s not really exploding, but it is a buibble of gas in the joint fluid.
True
If i were a crocodile, i wouldn’t stick my tongue out either. A crocodiles Jaws can exert someting like 5000 lbs of force.
It doesn’t necessarily have them, it is merely allowed to have them by legislation. However, the average mass-produces cigarette has around 9 pieces of rat shit in it. Happy Smoking you vile, wretched murdering, smelly assholes.
Nope, it is made of the same shit as your fingernails. A “hairball” which is hard and shiny and very solid is made of hair compacted in the stomach.
Almost true. The hair is clear, but the skin is really not quite black, but more of a navy blue almost.
True
True. He also invented about half the other words in the english language.
True
CHECK IT YOUR OWN DAMN SELF!!
Seems logical.
Small town i wales, they changed the name of their town to be so.
89.72% of statistics are made up on the spot with no research or basis in fact.
It is obvious none of you are familiar with my tongue.
Quoting Ahunter who quots the list; " 'I am is the shortest sentence in the English language.'No." I answer " 'Tis."
as for 34 you typed it did you use every letter? Read it and see.
Donald Duck was not banned because of no pants I forget the real reason a single cartoon or strip was.
What is a Daddy longlegs SPIDER? you talking about the MITE commomnly so called? no fangs.
I only eat spiders in the day time so i can see the dipping sauce.
“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx
Mel Blanc was, indeed allergic to carrots. Warner’s had him eat all kinds of other vegetables to get that crunch, but there was simply no substitute. Mel chomped on a carrot, said his line and then spat out the carrot into a bucket. Animation director Chuck Jones described this in his book Chuck Amuck and so did Mel in his autobiography.
Weird But True: Mel Blanc was in a bad car accident in 1961 that put him in a coma when he was the voice of Barney Rubble. He did not come out of the coma until the doctor asked to speak to Bugs Bunny. Mel replied, using Bugs’ voice. And after comning out of the coma, he continued as Rubble in a full body cast.
Hmm… I forgot to note what site this was on. Anywho, it’s about the actual Daddy Long-legs spider as opposed to the mite like thingie also known as Harvestmen:
The rest of the questions, I won’t bother with except to ask the obvious: If polar bears have black skin and clear hair, why don’t they appear black?
“I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
“Go!” is a complete sentence using any criteria. Since it’s a command, the subject is the implied “you.” According to my Funk and Wagnals, a sentence is defined as "a group of words containing a subject and a predicate . . . or a single word in the case of the simple imperative. (italics mine).
Quirk and Greenbaum give “Jump” as an example of a sentence (a tie with “I am.” if you count the space). They also list “Why?” and “Who” as questions containing the Q-word only (Q&G are always highly technical). A question is a form of a sentence, so “Who?” and “Why?” are complete sentences, with elements implied.
In any case, “I am” is not the shortest, since it’s tied with “I do.” (Though I suppose that can be considered the beginning of a life sentence.)
Go. is a complete imperative sentence that has an understood subject (you). Thus, Go. wins as the shortest complete sentence. (As would any other two-letter verbal command, such as Be! or Do!.)
No. is a declarative (or interjectory) sentence fragment. Not complete. Like the previous sentence and this one.
Why? is a interogative sentence fragment. Not complete.
O! and I. would be two of the shortest sentence fragments.
Daddy long legs do have deadly venom, CDC confirmed it when my friend ate one at summer camp. She was fine, no poision from ingesting the spider, either.
the best thing to hold on to in life is eachother
audrey h.
The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow’s or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won’t open wide enough.
false
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
false
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
false
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
**Partially true. There is some bias in the coin, but the effect would almost certainly not be that strong, and would be swamped by individual flipping techniques, etc. **
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
**false. This may have been historically true a while ago, but no longer. The number of people over 100 and 110 is skyrocketing, and will continue to do so as the population ages and medicine advances. **
The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
True
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents who are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
**Nope. Mulan, Hercules. Hercules should count twice, since he had four parents, all of them are in the movie, and all survive. **
There’s no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
**That used to be true, but they’ve added Betty back in. **
It’s impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
**Depends what you mean by ‘impossible’. If water got in, it can get out. **
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
** Almost anything you do other than sitting in a chair uses close to that many calories **
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
**Not if you’re a peasant in India, who’s got a good chance of making it through life without even seeing a champagne cork. Context is everything. **
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
**Another Urban Myth **
Polar bears are left-handed.
**Polar Bears don’t have hands. **
31. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. False.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
**Let’s see… North America. South America, Eurasia. **
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
>> would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
**False. Not even close. **
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
Birthday, or birth Date?
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other
emergencies.
**False. This gets debunked regularly on the Straight Dope Boards and other Urban Legend sites. **
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
**How did they figure that out? **
All in all, a pretty lousy list. Pretty lazy work.
Which “penny”? I’d bet that whoever claimed this was talking about the U.S. one cent coin, which is only informally a penny. Surely the bias varies with the coin you’re talking about.
Furthermore, the statement talks about the most probable result as if that would be the result in any single run of 10,000 flips. Tell me how biased the coin is, and I will calculate the (small but finite) probability that you will get exactly 5000 heads.
b) Is the single file sorted by age, or would you see sequences such as 8F-37M-63F-9M-23F?
c) Is the speed of the line dictated by the slowest person in it? Do the quadriplegics and bedridden get to use self-propelling vehicles?
d) Is birth accomplished without midwives or doctors? Does the person walking in front of the delivering mom-person attempt to reach behind and help out?
Well I will help you out with what hasn’t already been answered
19- true, 9 days… wow.
24- couldnt be true , because even Clear things have color- usually in the White genre, it appears white because even the clearest prisms, if you have enough right in front of each other it will become a “solid” or “opaque” color
(hey, where is #29???)
34- true, you wouldnt think so though- a single sentence with all the letters…
39- yea its true if you consider an almost cryogenic hybernation “sleep”
45- mathematically, yea you do share your birthday with 9 million other people, but you gotta remember there are points in time where people have more sex than usual - for example, Christmas, New Years, etc, etc, thus times like September are bound to have more birthdays
47- sorry, the longest word in the English Language is superfragilisticexpialodocious (or however you spell it)
49- true that was after WWI (I believe) because they had more airplanes than strips to land them
