Groucho's Fact Hunt

[DualityNSNO]

"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

 

[Hellerad]

"Tesseradecades" is tied for the longest English word that can be typed with one hand using proper typing mechanics.

It means a group of fourteen. It also contains fourteen letters.

 

[Garrick]

"Tesseradecades" is tied for the longest English word that can be typed with one hand using proper typing mechanics.

It means a group of fourteen. It also contains fourteen letters.

On a similar note, on a QWERTY keyboard you can type a certain derogatory term for a child born out of wedlock with one hand.

[Poor language removed].

 

[Garrick]

Mexican food is the acest in the world.

Scientific fact.

 

[Groucho]

Blind people smile even though they’ve never seen anyone else smile.

Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.

Rats laugh when tickled.

 

[roydo]

Nothing rhymes with "Orange"

 

[Hellerad]

Blind people smile even though they’ve never seen anyone else smile.

Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.

Rats laugh when tickled.

Awesome.

But do blind rats smile when laughing?

 

[roydo]

More people have walked on the moon than have walked to the magnetic north pole.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Nothing rhymes with "Orange"

Or angst, bulb, cusp, film, gulf, kiln, oblige, opus, orange, pint, plankton, rhythm, silver, yttrium, depth, breadth, width, month and glimpsed.*

*I googled for the full list cuz I could only remember purple, month, bulb and film to add off the top of my head...

 

[roydo]

Or angst, bulb, cusp, film, gulf, kiln, oblige, opus, orange, pint, plankton, rhythm, silver, yttrium, depth, breadth, width, month and glimpsed.*

*I googled for the full list cuz I could only remember purple, month, bulb and film to add off the top of my head...

That is quite impressive.

Didnt we have a word based exchange some time ago? When you moosed me then as well! @DualityNSNO

 

[Dylan]

Or yttrium,

I think Tritium rhymes.

 

[malfosse]

Nothing rhymes with "Orange"

No it doesn't.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I think Tritium rhymes.

Upon further research:
Words and phrases that rhyme with yttrium: (0 results)


Words and phrases that almost rhyme: (18 results)
3 syllables:
atrium, helium, idiom, indium, lithium, minium, psyllium, tritium

4 syllables:
beryllium, elysium, iridium, nephridium, presidium

5 syllables:
condominium, equilibrium

6 syllables:
cryptosporidium, disequilibrium

8 syllables:
chemical equilibrium

I'd like any of them to be explained as it is a bit of a mystery why it doesn't actually rhyme with them...

 

[Groucho]

To multiply 10,112,359,550,561,797,752,808,988,764,044,943,820,224,719 by 9 you just move the 9 at the very end up to the front. It's the only number that does this.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The phrase to "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

 

[roydo]

To multiply 10,112,359,550,561,797,752,808,988,764,044,943,820,224,719 by 9 you just move the 9 at the very end up to the front. It's the only number that does this.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The phrase to "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

That has given me a migrane that. Thanks Grouch.

Oh, one of my two cats is gay. Fact. Keeps trying to bum his brother. Actually they might both be come to think of it.

*calls AF for advice*