ROFL oh this could lead to some interesting conversations w/wingnuts

[The Straight Story]

China has more English speakers than the United States.

(You mean, people there can speak more than one language? Something about Spanish here comes to mind....)

From a page of useless and weird facts:

http://www.indianchild.com/weird_information_humor.htm

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

[Fresh_Start]

1. South America/North America

haven't bothered to check the other items on the list

[angstlessk]

3. artificial boundries...they are both on the American continent

EuropE, AsiA, AfricA, AntarticA, AustrailiA, AmericA (both North and South)

[Fresh_Start]

4. LOL, and Europe has a natural boundary?????

maybe you should refer to a map

[angstlessk]

5. okay..eurasia does not count..okay???

[Fresh_Start]

6. the 'weird fact' isn't

don't sweat it

[angstlessk]

7. i was attempting a Joe Pesci impersonation...I love that guy!!!

okay, okay, okay???

You are correct..'wierd' it is 'fact' it ain't!

[Glorfindel]

2. Well, certainly - I agree with the 19th century Englishwoman

who said something like, "I think anyone on earth should be able to understand English, so long as it's spoken CLEARLY and DISTINCTLY." :hide:

[China_cat]

8. If the population of China walked past you in single file

the line WOULD eventually end. Hard to reproduce when you're WALKING in a single file.

Quite a few others are bullshit, too.

[coriolis]

9. MIMIMUM PUMPKIN is a neat phrase that requires only one hand to type

:D :D