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Useless Facts: English101
May 16, 2008, 4:36 pm
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  1. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
  2. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
  3. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
  4. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.
  5. The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
  6. There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  7. A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
  8. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
  9. The “if” and “then” parts of conditional (”if P then Q”) statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
  10. The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.
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Useless Facts: Animal Planet version1.0
May 16, 2008, 4:20 pm
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  1. All polar bears are left-handed.
  2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  3. Butterflies taste with their feet.
  4. Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
  5. A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
  6. Only female mosquitoes bite.
  7. Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
  8. Camel’s have three eyelids.
  9. Rats and horses can’t vomit.
  10. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
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Useless Facts About the Month of May
May 12, 2008, 2:40 pm
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  1. The Month was named after a Roman goddess of spring and growth.
  2. Over 30 international events and holidays are celebrated during this month, including Cinco de Mayo where the Mexican army defeated the French back in 1862.
  3. Napolean died on May the 5th 1821 exactly three years after the birth of Karl Marx -05/05/1818
  4. irritating occurences frequently appear for absolutely no rational reason
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Peace: A Useless Concept ?
May 12, 2008, 8:05 am
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Perhaps the answers would simply reveal more questions trapping our minds in a useless spiral leading to an unexplained irritation. Maybe, what if, we would take the liberty to switch our main thought processing system down and agree with the majority who believe that peace is a useless concept, since we adopted the “Survival of the Fittest” motto: “How can we progress if inferior civilizations are hindering are evolution?” For years now, we’ve been hearing this argument from the major power players of our planet, just not formulated in that manner. Then again, our definition on what is peace and how to achieve it may differ and that’s when we develop that irritating rash. How can multiple cultures agree on a single definition of peace, education, religion, etc. Answer is they can’t, they might for a certain period of time then CNN floods the world with news that tensions in Africa, the middle east, south America, Asia, are escalating.

POINT BEING: Peace is a useless concept since culture is preventing us from establishing a universal definition and mechanism to achieve it.

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Questions
May 7, 2008, 8:27 am
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Please attempt to answer the following question:

 Do you have anything useless to add ?

 

 

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