Sunday 29 November 2009

Did You Know?


The 'save' icon on Microsoft Word' shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning 'containing arsenic'.
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Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.