Weird things you never knew

sev112

EricTheWeary said:

the_jaffa said:

Hattigol said:

Spoonfeed is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

And on a related note:

"facetious" contains all of the vowels, bit only once, and in order

One of my favourite facts; there are a bunch of others such as adecticous although facetious is probably the only one you might use in every day conversation. 

What a facetious presumption ...

Kalimna

The reason a standard bottle of wine is 750ml is because that was, approximately, what a glass bottle blower could manage in one breath, before industrial processes took over.

thecolourbox

Typewriter is the longest word you can type using only the top row of a qwerty keyboard

Jonathangus

thecolourbox said:

Typewriter is the longest word you can type using only the top row of a qwerty keyboard

And proprietor.

the_jaffa

Jonathangus said:

thecolourbox said:

Typewriter is the longest word you can type using only the top row of a qwerty keyboard

And proprietor.

In that case, proprietory (apparently an alternative version of proprietary) is one longer.

Possibly doesn't count though

thecolourbox

I stand corrected! Although I'm sat down. I sit corrected

viz

I can whistle two notes at once

viz

sev112 said:

EricTheWeary said:

the_jaffa said:

Hattigol said:

Spoonfeed is the longest English word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

And on a related note:

"facetious" contains all of the vowels, bit only once, and in order

One of my favourite facts; there are a bunch of others such as adecticous although facetious is probably the only one you might use in every day conversation. 

What a facetious presumption ...

Abstemious

Bellycaster

viz said:

I can whistle two notes at once

So can I, but not from the same Orifice 

HAL9000

poopot said:

A duel between three people is called a truel.

Truel is a neologism (a newly coined word) used in game theory to describe a duel between three people. Assuming each participant acts in their own best interest it is often the weakest player who is expected to win since it is advantageous to attempt to eliminate the strongest player first, the next strongest player second, and so on (huge oversimplification but you get the idea).

blobb

The theme tune to Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, is "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" in Morse code.

poopot

In 2012, a missing woman on holiday in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/missing-icelandic-tourist-goes-search-herself-8096831.html

viz

blobb said:

The theme tune to Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, is "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" in Morse code.

That’s nice!

the morse code for V is …- because it’s the opening line of Beethoven’s 5th

Tannin

Bellycaster said:

viz said:

I can whistle two notes at once

So can I, but not from the same Orifice 

Are we talking enharmonically equivalent notes here?

viz

Tannin said:

Bellycaster said:

viz said:

I can whistle two notes at once

So can I, but not from the same Orifice 

Are we talking enharmonically equivalent notes here?

No, two notes, like a C and a D. 

Ddigger

^^video, or it never happened! 

scrumhalf

If you buy something that's "banana flavoured" the likelihood is that the flavouring comes from a variety of banana that was wiped out by disease some years ago and no longer exists.

Sadly it is possible that this will happen to the predominant variety of banana in the shops today.

Zombie milkshake anyone? 

Cryptid

Metal has no smell. What you detect is oxidised molecules, usually from an interaction with sweat. 

skullfunkerry

scrumhalf said:

If you buy something that's "banana flavoured" the likelihood is that the flavouring comes from a variety of banana that was wiped out by disease some years ago and no longer exists.

Sadly it is possible that this will happen to the predominant variety of banana in the shops today.

Zombie milkshake anyone? 

I remember reading something about this. All bananas are genetically identical aren't they, or something? In effect all clones from one original. I thought the ones that everything is flavoured of still existed but were very rare... fascinating though

blobb

Ddigger said:

^^video, or it never happened! 

It's called vocal overtoning. I can do it, just, a friend of mine teaches you how to do it, this lady is the reference:

https://youtu.be/vC9Qh709gas?t=32