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Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Its illegal for a woman to eat chocolate on a bus.

111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321

They're classified according to their Mass. Not their size.

Of course, the "black hole" is just the area beyond the event horizon. By the "centre", I refer to the singularity. I know Googling is not allowed, but I think we can to settle this. See the below extract:

Singularity
Main article: Gravitational singularity
At the center of a black hole as described by general relativity lies a gravitational singularity, a region where the spacetime curvature becomes infinite.[51] For a non-rotating black hole this region takes the shape of a single point and for a rotating black hole it is smeared out to form a ring singularity lying in the plane of rotation.[52] In both cases the singular region has zero volume. It can also be shown that the singular region contains all the mass of the black hole solution.[53] The singular region can thus be thought of as having infinite density.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes#Singularity

Although, just to clarify, the "size" of the event horizon is directly proportional to the mass of the singularity. If you condensed the Earth into a singularity, it would create an event horizon about 3.5m in diameter.

I have quite good general knowledge, I think, but often find myself, especially when I'm within earshot of other adults "I hope I'm not talking a load of shit here" when I'm trying to explain something to one of my daughters.

Chilver rhymes with silver

Curple rhymes with purple

Sporange rhymes with orange

But I haven't a clue what rhymes with mirror :)

Are they real words?

There's a Sporran, which is the pouch on the front of a kilt, and a Sporangium (a flower).

Thanks for the bubble-bath universes, Atomic :) I like that, possibly because it fits in with something I learned as a child about the limits of human understanding meaning we can't 'know everything'. Scientific cop-out, but comforting if you're inclined to ask "But WHY?" as I still do.

Loving the Earth's voice, hugglymuggly! How fortunate it turned out to be an E (for Earth)!

Kaolin is an adsorbent, meaning it pulls stuff into it to be absorbed. That's why it makes a good face pack.

A chilver is a female lamb, haven't a clue what the others are but they're real :) Will have to use google

Ooh, apparently the curple is the small of the waist before the hips (where it starts to flare out.

Sporange is an alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant)

There is also hirple for purple, which means to limp.

I just thought of one!

Blorenge!

It's a place, though. Not a word. A hill in Wales.

Garlic, I liked it too because it just makes you wonder about the scale of things. I was given the explanation when I asked someone who was way smarter than what came before the big bang. I didn't really understand the rest, but the idea of universes just being bubbles that form and burst, I sort of understood.

a duck's quack doesn't echo, and no-one knows why..

hollow (and presumbly well sealed) tubes filled with bees are thought to have been used as early vibrators. As were rattlesnakes. The tail, obviously.

If a roman man had been cuckholded he could fuck the man up the jacksy to regain his honour. I seem to remember something about a swordfish in this story too, but without google that's all i've got.

On second thoughts perhaps it's just as well i'm not going to google 'anal sex' +'sword fish'.

kissyfur, I think that thing about a duck's quack not echoing is apocryphal.

Taking viagra can make you colourblind (blue-purple). Something about the enzymes needed in colour vision being disabled...

snorbs, its that a polite way of saying "bullshit"

Giraffes have the same amount of vertebrae in their necks as humans. 7.

In Westminster, Pregnant Women are legally allowed to Pee in a Policemans hat It is legal everywhere else for a Pregnant Woman to Pee anywhere she wants too

In York it is legal to shoot a Scotsman - except on Sundays unless he is drunk

It is illegal to mow your lawn on a Sunday

Putting a stamp on an envelope upside down is considered an act of treason

1. rats dont have a gall bladder
2. fish dont have a diaphram and therefore cannot hiccup
3. when you say 'robert mugabe' backwards it sounds like your saying 'ee by gum treebor'
4. when you say my daughters initials like a word (orsm) it sounds like awesome...coincidence? i think not!
5. i am a thread killer so make the most of these facts and all go on your merry way...sorry!

I knew that about stamps, DD did it once and I had to post the letter under the cover of darkness, in disguise.

Has anyone mentioned that scorpions glow in ultraviolet light? And that they were around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth? Poisonous little freaks.

BTW I thought we weren't supposed to be googling?

who googled?!

oo another one! kuni kuni pigs can be trained like dogs, it was our project at college haha

and AtomicBum have you read this?

Cote, you should get a MN award of some kind just for typing that word

I am gutted there is a longer word in English, and it's too hard to learn as a party trick.

The German word means:

Danube Steam Ship Electricity Factory

The word Diesel - in respect of the type of engine and the fuel for them - should be spelled with a capital D because it was named after the man who invented it.

(That's according to my Mum)

MN needs a fb-esque 'like' button!

garlicbutter - I wonder if those who like to "Omm" would tune in better if they Ommed in the key of E.

I didn't know that kaolin was adsorbent (lovely word, should be used more often) - presumably that's why it's sometimes used for gut problems.

I've thought of another:

Of all our primary senses, the neural connection between the nose and the limbic system (emotions, etc.) is the shortest. Which is why, although humans have a poor sense of smell compared with most other mammals, some smells can almost instantly evoke memories/reactions.