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What is the most odd, weird or useless piece of information that you know ?

Mine is the probably the above word which is dutch for nonsense.

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Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.

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In India, a 9-year-old girl was "married" to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum.

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The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.


Question - We are all thrilled when a small child says it's first word and takes it's first tentative step. Why is it then that shortly afterwards we're telling them to "sit down and shut up!"

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Originally posted by ianpickering
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.


Question - We are all thrilled when a small child says it's first word and takes it's first tentative step. Why is it then that shortly afterwards we're telling them to "sit down and shut up!"
I take it you don't have kids or they have grown up long ago & you have forgotten.............🙄

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Originally posted by Jay Peatea
What is the most odd, weird or useless piece of information that you know ?

Mine is the probably the above word which is dutch for nonsense.
It is Hottentottententententoonstelling in Dutch and surprise it isn't nonsense: 'Hottentotten' is a Pygmee race I think, 'tenten' is the dutch word for tents and 'tentoonstelling' is the dutch word for an exhibition.
So Hottentottententententoonstelling means exhibition of tents of Hottentots
🙂😀🙂😀🙂😀

Quirine

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The longest word in Finnish is (and I'll cut this in bits to prevent [WORD TOO LONG], in reality it's all one word): "Epäjärjestelmällis tyttämättömyydel lisyydelläänsäkään"

A rough translation would be "Even without her/his tendency to cause disorder". How do you pronounce it? Most Finns get their toungues in a knot half way through, or at least miss a few sylables. When would you ever use such a word? Aside from telling people that it's the longest word in Finnish language, I for one haven't encountered the right context yet.... and I'm not holding my breath! 🙄

-Jarno

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The correct Dutch word is Hottentottententententoonstelling !

As Quirine has pointed out to us !

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On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.



~Otis~

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On a good day I can name the capital of every country in the world. On a bad day I may miss as many as five. Of course there is no way for me to prove this over the internet. I have always been very good at memorizing useless data.

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There are people who have learned a telephone book by heart ..... oh well ....

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this is a trick i am also quite good at

mark

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Originally posted by Otis
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.



~Otis~
coke machines account for, on average, 3 fatilities a year in britain alone.

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The basic computer key word LET was the basis of all BYVALUE function calls used in early high level languages. That is why it was never "required" and is usually still tolerated.

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orkyboy - Proud owner of "The Ultimate Book of Useless Information"