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[–] RudeMechanics 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

  • I have not verified the accuracy of any of these statements. They are true, but are for entertainment purposes only.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language, which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"-and it can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size with "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

  • I have more but don't want to blow too many minds.

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[–] ChrissiTea 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

is "Screeched" really one syllable? I definitely pronounce it "scree-ched"

Edit: deleted a hyphen that didn't even explain how I pronounce it, and I also realised it could sound monosyllabic in a certain accent)

Edit 2: (posted as a reply to another comment) I just looked it up and apparently what I considered syllables for my entire life until this moment is completely wrong. A syllable only refers to the vowel sound, not the individual sounds that make up a word. To clarify (for anyone else as stupid as me lol) with "Screeched", even though you are making 2 very separate sounds to say the word, only the sound with a vowel noise counts as a syllable, so the "ched" part doesn't count.

I feel reallly reallly stupid right now. Sorry guys.

Edit 3: Google definitions lies, a syllable is the individual series of noises and sounds that make up a word, so...yeah, to me "Screeched" isn't monosyllabic.

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[–] ButcherOfBlaviken 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Then you're pronouncing it wrong.

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[–] RudeMechanics 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What are you, a character in Shakespeare? I could be wrong, but I think it's one syllable.

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[–] nm96 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Are you saying that you pronounce the "ch" as a separate syllable? Because that's retarded.

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[–] Telepath 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Don't forget apodous: zoological term meaning "without feet."

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[–] polymorphist 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

  1. Wouldn't refrigeration make the rubber bands more brittle?
  2. I thought dynamite was made by mixing nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth

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[–] Sydviciouz 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Philver.

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