Things you probably didnt know
English writer Tom Nuttall published some fascinating but true ‘did-you-knows’ in his book called “In Fact”. Here are few of them…
1. Hitler was one of the nominees for the 1938 Nobel Peace prize.
2. The average British woman spends two years of her life gazing in the mirror.
3. 2/3 of earth population have never seen snow.
4. In 1982, a new law was inforced in Zimbabwe, were it was forbidden for people to make fun of president’s name, Canaan Banana.
5. 6% of all heart attacks happens during the sex. 90% of them happens while you are cheating.
6. NASA never had any spaceships in space between 31 December and 1 January. They are affraid of computer error during these dates.
7. Every 3400th American is Elvis impersonator.
8. Woman are estimated to buy 80% of everything sold.
9. 44000 babies are born each day in China.
10. There are almost twice as many chickens alive as humans.
11. Men produce twice as much saliva as women.
12. Sixty-two of the world’s 100 richest men are married to brunettes.
13. On any given evening 35-40 paparazzi follow Britney Spears.
14. While filming the movie Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick, shot 96 takes of Tom Cruise walking through a door.
15. No English manager has ever won the Premier League.
16. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
17. No words in the English language rhyme with “orange”, “silver”, “purple” or “month”.
18. The most expensive age of your life is 34.
19. On an average day, about 3.3% of the world’s population has sex. Only 0.4% of these acts results in a birth.
20. More than 90 per cent of plane crashes have survivors
August 24th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
“17. No words in the English language rhyme with “orange”, “silver”, “purple” or “month”.”
Purple - turtle
August 26th, 2008 at 11:42 am
He Pilverd all the siver while he shiverd
August 27th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
lol @ both previous comments. Those are not rhymes and english isn’t even my first language.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Learn to rhyme before you post a comment…
August 27th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Purple doesn’t rhyme with turtle, shit for brains
August 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
LOL PURPLE-TURTLE!!1
dumbass
August 27th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
You guys cant rhyme worth dick ^^
August 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Jeeze you are bad at rhyming…that’s some kind of pseudo rhymes..!
August 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
orange - range
August 27th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
lol none of those words rhyme. Just admit ur wrong and go to sleep!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
our eyes do grow, not to much thought. nose and ears do not grow all your life.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:42 am
esvl… fuck sake, purple and turtle doesn’t rhyme if you know what a rhyme is!
August 28th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Purple and turtle doesnt rhyme you dumbass
August 28th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Dear ESVL,
I don’t know know your native tongue, but purple does not rime with turtle.
Regards,
Palle
August 28th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Your eyes does in fact grow. An infant’s eyes are between 65 and 75 percent of their adult size.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:16 am
esvl: Turtle does not rhyme with purple.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Wow…you’re really are an idiot. Purple doesn’t rhyme with turtle, one has P’s in it and the other T’s!
August 28th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
curple and hirple both rhyme with purple, and yes they are both words that are in the dictionary
August 28th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hitler was one of the nominees for the 1938 Nobel Peace prize….really interesting
August 29th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I just looked and there are no curples or hirples…in the english dictionary that is.. I once knew a little green turtle, who thought that his color was purple…that rhymes no matter what you say!
August 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Hitler was nominated in 1939 but okay.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
esvl: rofl turtle doesnt rhyme with purple!! xD u sux
August 30th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Echo, echo, echo…
August 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
No wonder the USA is failing in all subjects. Hey morons, turtle does rhyme with purple. This is both a audible and visual rhyme. They both sound the same and are spelled the same. Stop showing how dumb we are by saying they don’t rhyme. And if English is not your first language, go back to school because you need to learn more.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
no they don’t rhyme! one of them has a T and one of them has a P, ignorant bitch. If turtle were spelled turple, then they would rhyme
September 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Lissn..wtf!!! Ears and nose don’t grow for all our life? Have you ever seen a baby with huge nose and ears??? Ofcourse it grows.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
whats up with all this name calling?? its enough that 2-3 people tell him he sucks dont need the whole fucking world
September 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Yuor all dumb asses, It’s enough if 2 says hes wrong, not 20+, fucking morons -.-”
September 17th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Hitler nominated for the Nobel Peace Price.
Isn’t that ironic?
And no, turtle and purple does not rhyme.
Even though the last two letters are the same, you dont pronounce the words the same, due to the “p” and the “t”.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
For fuck sake, how many times do we have to tell you! Turtle does NOT rhyme whith purle xD
September 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Dumb asses.
rhyme |r?m|
noun
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
• a short poem in which the sound of the word or syllable at the end of each line corresponds with that at the end of another.
• poetry or verse marked by such correspondence of sound : the clues were written in rhyme.
• a word that has the same sound as another.
verb [ intrans. ]
(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another : balloon rhymes with moon | [as adj. ] ( rhyming) rhyming couplets.
• (of a poem or song) be composed of lines that end in words or syllables with sounds that correspond with those at the ends of other lines : the poem would have been better if it had rhymed.
• [ trans. ] ( rhyme something with) put a word together with (another word that has a corresponding sound), as when writing poetry : I’m not sure about rhyming perestroika with balalaika.
• poetic/literary compose verse or poetry : Musa rhymed and sang.
PHRASES
rhyme or reason [with negative ] logical explanation or reason : without rhyme or reason his mood changed.
DERIVATIVES
rhymer |?ra?m?r| noun
rhymist |-ist| |?ra?m1st| noun ( archaic).
ORIGIN Middle English rime, from Old French, from medieval Latin rithmus, via Latin from Greek rhuthmos (see rhythm ). The current spelling was introduced in the early 17th cent. under the influence of rhythm.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
orange - doorhinge
September 24th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
turtle and purple are a near rhyme, but not a legitimate rhyme, get it right. there really is no currently english word that rhymes with purple
September 25th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
You guys are fuckin’ idiots the lot of you. LMAO.
“No words in the English language rhyme with “orange”, “silver”, “purple” or “month”.”
Orange = door hinge (thank you Leonard Cohen)
Silver = chilver (look it up if you don’t believe me)
Purple = “curple and hirple both rhyme with purple” - yeah they do, and they exist - just have to use areally old dictionary. (a 19th century one). Turtle is a half rhyme that you have to pronounce in a blur to make it sound like the second “P” in purple.
However, I couldn’t find a rhyme for month.
You should pay more attention in English-classes. I myself am from Sweden.