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Useless Knowledge!

Eskrima was created as an offensive style of martial arts, in the belief that the best defense is a good offense. Early users were taught the quickest ways to end a battle — often fatally. However, today’s users are generally instructed in watered-down defensive techniques and footwork. Purer versions, which focus on grace and lethality, are much preferred.
 
Shakespeare invented the word "puke" too.
Here's a list of common words that our friend Shakespeare invented;
accommodation
amazement
courtship
dislocate
gloomy
generous
eventful
majestic
hurry (no one can say they haven't said this one)
lonely
obscene
auspicious
suspicious
laughable
monumental

I looked up "words that Shakespeare invented" after reading The 39 Clues. Those are the ones I can remember. I also remember that Shakespeare invented 1,700 words in his lifetime.
 
sam40400 said:
# According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
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I've heard that polar bears are left handed. Also, the left handed people live less time then righties.
sam40400 said:
# The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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Words of this type are called palindromes. Someone once pointed out to me a palindromic sentence: Eva can I stab bats in a cave? (evacanistab batsinacave)
sam40400 said:
[*]Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

[*]If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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I've heard that mosquitos are attracted to some peoples scents more then others. This make sense to me, because my dad always talks about getting nailed by mosquitos, while I don't have much trouble with them.

Apparently if you put some beer on the ground, a slug that either touches it or drinks it (not sure which) will die.
Charmanderman said:
Rhydon was the first Pokémon to be coded in the original games.
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I believe it was also the first one ever created.
 
RoflLuxRay said:
This one is pretty good:

-Your poop can turn green if you eat a spider; a big one or a few small ones.
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O_O so i ate a spider lik three times then -vomits-
anyway to make this not spam agen:


  • The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
  • Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
  • Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
  • All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  • A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
  • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  • The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
  • The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
  • Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
  • Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  • The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.(yah u alredy guessed it)
 
Shakespeare said, "frailty, thy name is female" that makes me madz.
 
•The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
•It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
•One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
•Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
•The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
•TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
 
One does not simply walk into Mordor.

I heard that by the time rolling stairs were invented, people were afraid to go through them, so a guy was hired to go through them constantly to show people it was safe.

I read it somewhere, I dunno if it's true.
 
•A snail can sleep for 3 years.
•Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
•The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
•More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
•Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
•The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
 
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
 
Petra is a vast city carved into the sandstone rock in Arabah, Jordan. It was built by the Nabatean people about 2,000 years ago and became an important junction for the silk and spice trade routes.
 
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

that I KNOW is a fact, though I wasn't sure about the spider thing I understand that
 
In WWI everyone used spy pigeons.
 
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