o_o: October 2010

Annoying Orange Wazzup 2: Wasssabi

english trivia

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters
mt.
Underground is the only word in the English language that
begins and ends with the letters “und.”
There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, andhazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand. (On a QWERTY keyboard)
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.

science trivia

DID YOU KNOW?

. . . that a cricket's ears are on its knees? That a fly has taste
on its knees? That a fly has tastebuds on its feet.

SOURCE: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences

Finger MathMultiplying by 9
Hold out your hands in front of you so that your thumbs point toward one another.
Visualize that your left pinky finger represents 1, the next finger 2, and so on left to right, until your right pinky finger represents 10. Those fingers represent the number you wish to multiply by 9. To do so, simply put the finger down you wish to multiply by 9. All fingers to the left of the down finger represent the tens digit of the answer while all fingers to the right represent the ones digit.
Example: 6 x 9. Put the finger representing 6 down (the right hand thumb). To the left of the down finger, you have 5 fingers up. That's your tens digit. 5. To the right, you have 4 fingers up. There's your ones digit. 4. Put those together and you have your answer: 54.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110961/tnt.htm