Useless facts - this time...words and math

[TheJoker6900]

» Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
» Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

» The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.

» Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

» If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.

» The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

» "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish.

» Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

» The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.

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

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

» "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.

» Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.

» If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

» In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.

» "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

» "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom."

» The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

» The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

» The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.

» "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

» There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.

» The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

» There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

» "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.

» 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.

» In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

» "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

» The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.

» "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.

» The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead."

» The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.

» The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

» Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

» "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

» The most common name in the world is "Mohammed."

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: TheJoker6900

» Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

Of course, if you apply basic multiplicative commutivity (37037 x something x 3 == 37037 x 3 x something), you could easily say "multiply any single digit by 111111 and all the digits will be the same", but that doesn't sound nearly as impressive.

 

[CraigRT]

» Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

Nice, I find that pretty cool

 

[Shooters]

Originally posted by: TheJoker6900
» The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

North America
South America

 

[DaveyBoy69]

Where do you get these from???

 

[Orsorum]

» "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.

I always thought it was spelled "flaucipaucinihilipilification".

Oh well, semantics.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Shooters

Originally posted by: TheJoker6900
» The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

North America
South America

They count the Americas as a single continent, I guess.

 

[Ynog]

Originally posted by: TheJoker6900

» The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

That is actually incorrect.
And its also not correct that cop came from the copper badges police were.

There is the real origin.
Around the year 1700, the slang verb cop entered English usage, meaning "to get ahold of, catch, capture."
By 1844, cop showed up in print, and soon thereafter the -er suffix was added, and a policeman became a
copper, one who cops or catches and arrests criminals. Copper first appeared in print in 1846, the use of
cop as a short form copper occured in 1859.

 

[royaldank]

"Strengths" is the longest word with only 1 vowel.

 

[kranky]

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

It's "tesseradecades".