Strange but true!! [I swear]

Here are some things I'll bet you didn't know! Got any more?

1. The longest term in the English lanquage consists of over 189,000 letters!
2. The elephant is the only type of animal with four knees!
3. A napkin can be folded in half no more than 10 times, sometimes only 9!
4. Neutron stars are only a few miles wide, but are denser than many red giants!
5. Saturn would float in a tub if it fit
6. Assuming that a flying reigndeer can pull ten times the weight of a normal reigndeer, and Santa delivers an average of 2 pounds of presents to each child, Santa would have to have 215,000 reigndeer attached to his sleigh, and in order to visit every house on the planet in 24 hours, he would have to move 3,000 times the speed of sound, at which speed, he, the presents, and the reigndeer would all be incinerated within 5 seconds. Merry holidays.
7. Narwals, whales with horns, exist.
8. President Kennedy moved forward, but his brain flew out backwards when he died, thus he must have been shot from both inside the car, and by someone outside, mathmatecally, the gun the accused was found with would not be capable of either shot.
9. Daddy longlegs are not only completely harmless, but their pincers are 3 times LONGER than necessary to peirce human skin, and they are NOT spiders.
10. Non reproducing hybrids include: Ze(o)nky [zera donkey] liger [tiger lion] cama [camel lama] wolphin [dolphin killer whale]

More coming soon!

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The longest word in the English lanquage consists of over 189,000 letters!

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This is a technical name and is typically not considered to be an actual word.

fine, the longest WORD in the english language is:Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­parao­melito­katakechy­me no­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tra gano­pterygon which consists of 183 letters and was used by an author to describe a dish, and is not in a dictionary

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Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar

Daddy longlegs are not only completely harmless, but their pincers are 3 times longer than necessary to peirce human skin, and they are NOT spiders.

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Isn't that supposed to be shorter?

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wolphin [donkey killer whale]

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Who thought of such a beast?

Also, if that author couldn't think of a real word to describe the dish then he/she wasn't a very good author.

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Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar

fine, the longest WORD in the english language is:Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­parao­melito­katakechy­me no­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tra gano­pterygon which consists of 183 letters and was used by an author to describe a dish, and is not in a dictionary

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That's also not the longest word. :p

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Also, if that author couldn't think of a real word to describe the dish then he/she wasn't a very good author.

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The author was Aristophanes. The word is the longest word known to appear in a work of literature. The longest word in a dictionary is, currently, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Though it is a technical name for a certain type of lung disease that exists for the sole purpose of being the longest word in the English language.

Also it should be noted that the second word that the Cactuar posted was originally a Greek word to describe a dish made up of a whole lot of fish and other things.

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Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar

wolphin [donkey killer whale]

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Don't you mean "dolphin" instead of "donkey"?

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Originally Posted by Blues Agent

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Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar

wolphin [donkey killer whale]

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Don't you mean "dolphin" instead of "donkey"?

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That changes a lot...

yes, sorry