Monday, October 11, 2010

UPDATED :)

ENGLISH TRIVIA:


  • The word set has more definitions than any other word in the
    English language.
  • Underground is the only word in the English language that
    begins and ends with the letters “und.”
  • The longest word in the English language, according to the
  • Oxford English Dictionary,
    is
    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
    The only other word with the same amount of letters is
    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
  • The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
    letter is
    uncopyrightable.
  • The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

MATH  TRIVIA:
      
  •    The longest prime number is 13,395 digits long.
  •    Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?   A: Googol


SCIENCE TRIVIA:

  • A cricket's ears are on its knees.
  • What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?
    A: Uranium.

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