Calypso
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 Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:25 pm
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| People with blue eyes lack all the natural pigment in their irises.
People with green eyes have have the natural pigment in their irises.
People with brown eyes have all the natural pigment in their irises.
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Lexa
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:27 pm
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| Nothing rhymes with month.
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Calypso
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:28 pm
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| Rhyme comes from the same root as the word rhetoric.
Why do I know so much about words? >.<
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Icewing
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:29 pm
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| 'Rhythm' is the longest English word without any vowels(and it's one of the few words Icy can never spell)
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Calypso
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:31 pm
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| 'Gypsy' wasn't originally thought of as a real word until 1917.
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Lexa
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:33 pm
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| The roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons was invented by a psychologist (or was it a psychiatrist?) to help figure out their patient's problems. (Like, if they don't like themselves they would make their person the opposite of them.)
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_Ariana_
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:06 pm
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| The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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Anelir
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:29 am
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| The clipped feathers of a bird can grow back, thought the bird can still achieve a small amount of 'lift' even with the feathers clipped.
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_Ariana_
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:33 am
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| A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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Sirebrus
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:49 pm
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| 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.
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Sirebrus
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:51 pm
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| The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Sirebrus
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:51 pm
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| President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
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Sirebrus
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:52 pm
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| In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
(Me on the other hand, I run about 20+ milesa week e_e)
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Sirebrus
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:04 pm
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| Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
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Sirebrus
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:04 pm
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| The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
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