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There is not one letter “q” in any US state name, the only letter in the alphabet to be missing. “J” and “z” are only represented once each, in New Jersey and Arizona.
How many hearts does an octopus have?
Octopuses have three hearts.
What number can not be represented in Roman Numerals?
There are a total of zero zeros in Roman numerals. While the ancient Greeks were aware of zero as a concept, they didn't consider zero to be a number at all. For example, Aristotle decided zero wasn't a number because you couldn't divide by zero. Instead of a Roman numeral, the Latin word "nulla" would have been used to represent the concept of zero. The reason no numeral existed for zero is because there was no need for a numeral to represent it.
What famous person is the teddy bear named after?
The teddy bear is named after President Theodore Roosevelt. After he refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt, a stuffed-animal maker decided to create a bear and name it after the president.
What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back?
A stick
What is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel?
The word “strengths” is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
The oldest-known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882.
What number was Google named after?
The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros.
Who invented Lincoln Logs?
Lincoln Logs were created by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the 1920s. They were named after Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in a log cabin.
What do you call a rabbit with fleas?
Bugs Bunny
What is a single piece of confetti called?
A single piece of confetti is called a "confetto."
What is the deadliest animal in the world?
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world: They kill more people than any other creature, due to the diseases they carry.
There are over 200 of these on Mt. Everest.
There are over 200 dead bodies of climbers on Mt. Everest because it’s so difficult to bring them down.
What does PVC stand for?
Polyvinyl chloride, once thought to be worthless, has become the world's second-best-selling plastic. In 1926, Waldo Semon, an employee in the research department at the B.F. Goodrich Company, attempted to dissolve polyvinyl chloride to create an adhesive that could bond rubber to metal. His experiment failed, but he did discover a process that could plasticize polyvinyl chloride. Semon found that when polyvinyl chloride was heated in a solvent at a high boiling point, a flexible, elastic material resulted. He has received 116 U.S. patents.
How do you talk to a giant?
What does "Quarantine" literally mean?
"Quarantine" literally means "40 days."
The word "quarantine" comes from the Italian words quarantina giorni, which literally translate to "space of 40 days." Why? In the 14th century, that's how long ships were kept in isolation—or quarantined—when they could potentially be harboring sick passengers.
How long can a snail sleep at one time?
A snail can sleep for three years at a time.
1 + 1 = 10. If the sum of 2 bits is greater than 1, we need to shift a column on the left. In decimal system, 1 + 1 = 2. Binary notation of 2 is 10 (1 * 2^1 + 0 * 2^0). So we keep 0 in the 1's column and shift (carry over) 1 to the 2's column.
What was Play-Doh originally used for?
Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and rebranded it.
Why is the obtuse triangle always so frustrated?
Because it's never right.
What does Abibliophobia mean?
The fear of running out of reading material.
What is a group of ferrets called?
A group of ferrets is called a "business"
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
Experiments in universities have actually been carried out to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, both with machine and human lickers (because this is important scientific knowledge!). The results ranged from 252 to 411.
Who was Richard Montanez?
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were developed by a janitor at Frito-Lay, Richard Montanez, who got the idea after putting chili powder on some reject Cheetos and then pitched it to the CEO. He’s now a successful executive and motivational speaker, and a movie is in the works about his life.
Why was the fraction nervous about marrying the decimal?
Because he would have to convert.