Odd and interesting facts

**Edbear** · 12th July 2011, 08:59

Fun Facts for the Week

The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is 85 letters long and is the name of a hill right here in New Zealand: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu
The Striped Mittenfish, a deepwater species recently discovered in the Java Sea, can change its sex at will by turning its entire body inside out.
Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a successful career as an architect despite having dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.
The face of Uncle Sam, the fictional personification of the United States, was modelled after a door-to-door salesman from Canada.

No. 2...

**Scuba_Steve** · 12th July 2011, 09:15

5/ Relative to it's size the barnacle has the biggest penis

6/ there is technically no word in the english language to describe those who prefer fucking people of the same sex

**imdying** · 12th July 2011, 10:03

Originally Posted by Edbear

Fun Facts for the Week

1/ The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is 85 letters long and is the name of a hill right here in New Zealand:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu

Fun fact, although predominantly English speaking, English is not an official language of New Zealand under current legislation.

**Edbear** · 12th July 2011, 10:10

Originally Posted by imdying

Fun fact, although predominantly English speaking, English is not an official language of New Zealand under current legislation.

Interesting...

**Big Dave** · 12th July 2011, 10:37

**JMemonic** · 12th July 2011, 11:20

Originally Posted by imdying

Fun fact, although predominantly English speaking, English is not an official language of New Zealand under current legislation.

Huh we have three official languages, English, Maori, and New Zealand Sign language, I dont think it has to be legislated as an official language when the documents are published in it.

**Scuba_Steve** · 12th July 2011, 11:44

Originally Posted by imdying

Fun fact, although predominantly English speaking, English is not an official language of New Zealand under current legislation.

does that mean anything written in it is not officially recognized by NZ???

**Oscar** · 12th July 2011, 11:56

NZ has two National Anthems.

**Ronin** · 12th July 2011, 12:21

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

does that mean anything written in it is not officially recognized by NZ???

Quite a bit written on here in 'english' is not recognised.

**Big Dave** · 12th July 2011, 12:25

Originally Posted by Ronin

Quite a bit written on here in 'english' is not recognised.

The ol' ignore list

**Ronin** · 12th July 2011, 12:29

Originally Posted by Big Dave

The ol' ignore list

Never used it to be honest. If you can't cope with life on the net then how do you manage in real life? I have visions of holding up a piece of paper with "/ignore" written on it.

Hmmm. Make a good T-Shirt.

Which is interesting and therefore back on topic.