September 2010
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There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there...
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Inhaling Helium doesn't make your voice higher in...
Timbre is defined as the quality given to a sound, which explains why playing the same note on a piano and a guitar will produce two different sounds, even though they are the same pitch. To get even more technical, pitch is determined by wavelength, and timbre is determined by frequency. Because helium is less dense than air, the helium particles vibrate faster (thereby increasing frequency),...
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Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of trivia about...
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The bowling ball was invented in 1862.
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2×4 (4×2 to the British) is not. 2×4 is the name...
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Today is Nintendo's 121st Birthday (the company...
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The first policewoman was Alice Stebbins Wells who...
Sliced bread was invented in 1926 by Otto...
Japan's currency is currently the most difficult...
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Alligators cannot move backwards.
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Male cockatoos can be taught to speak, but females...
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lil---e asked: how does one become an astronaut?
himignglarawan asked: when did we started calling classical music "classical"?
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Fat men, on average, last longer in bed.
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The word "lethologica" describes the state of not...
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Researchers from York University found that people...
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The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79...
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A geep is a cross between a goat and a sheep.
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Queue is the only word that is pronounced the same...
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52 percent of women would rather be skinny than...
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Human meat -- particularly that of children -- was...
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The average American spends 46 minutes per day...
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The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is...
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Luke Skywalker's last name was changed at the last...
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More than two hundred varieties of watermelon are...
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King Kong was Aldof Hitler's favorite movie.
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OH YEAH, FACT CHECK: In the ancient times, men...
Every now and then, we at OYF decide to create a semi-regular column (like Mailbag Mondays) that we ultimately forget to do on any extended basis. This is one of those columns.
OH YEAH, FACT-CHECK.
See, a lot of times we get facts like the one above—submitted by users like you—that wind up being partially or completely untrue. When that happens, it’s usually a pretty...
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The Ouija board is named after the French and...
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Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, first appeared...
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Americans spend anywhere between 240 times to...
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English gambling dens used to have employees whose...
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Methionylglutaminylarginyltyros-ylglutamylserylleuc...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, 18th edition, this 1,909-letter-long word is regarded as the world’s longest word in the English language. This word has also included in the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Abstracts. It is the longest real word of a Tryptophan Synthetase (its scientific name is Methionylglutaminy…serine) A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids which...