Nathan Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 The letter I is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 There is a city called Rome on every continent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Quote: Nathan said: There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Rubbish! In the Hawaiian alphabet there are 19 letters..... ...'t' (twice), 'h' (three times), 'e' (twice), 'a' (five times), 'w', 'i', 'n'... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Quote: Nathan said: The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. What like North America and South America??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Scott Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 and oceania? or does that count as australasia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Every person has a unique tongue print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 In 1555, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. He was so thrilled with the work done by the two architects that he had them blinded so they could never be able to build anything else more beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. Well I never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 It took 214 crates to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 On March 22, 1994, Hormel Foods Corporation celebrated the production of its five billionth can of SPAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars (as of May 2004) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body. Ouch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 In Northern parts of China it was once a common practice to shave pigs. When the evenings got cold the Chinese would take a pig to bed with them for warmth and found it more comfortable if the pig was clean-shaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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