Hotentotentententenstonestelling

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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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!"

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!"

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.

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

The correct Dutch word is Hottentottententententoonstelling !

As Quirine has pointed out to us !

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



~Otis~

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.

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

this is a trick i am also quite good at

mark

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



~Otis~

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"