forum Murphy's Revelations About Everyday Life (AKA Random Trivia Thread)

Started October 18, 2020 by @murphysgirl

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest welsh word and apparently every welsh has to know how to say it

i'm welsh and i don't know how to say it 😔💔✌🏿

The closest relative to the elephant is the hyrax which looks like this.

there was a family who lived in Siberian woods and they lived through ww2 without knowing that the war broke out

i'm welsh and i don't know how to say it 😔💔✌🏿

oof I have a Scottish friend who can say it and I'm just like…how??

Lamborghini started out as a tractor company; to this day, they still make tractors.

i'm welsh and i don't know how to say it 😔💔✌🏿

oof I have a Scottish friend who can say it and I'm just like…how??

ejdbsjfnam i can only say the first bit

i'm welsh and i don't know how to say it 😔💔✌🏿

oof I have a Scottish friend who can say it and I'm just like…how??

ejdbsjfnam i can only say the first bit

i can't even say it– lmao

The closest relative to the elephant is the hyrax which looks like this.

It's like a quokka a vampire bat and a beaver had a child and it's adorable

Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards

This isn't so much of a fact as a thought. But I was thinking - in today's somewhat fractured world of gender, with pronouns and such being questioned - well, some of those nonbinary people and such are going to become teachers. But I don't suppose we would call them by "Mr." or "Ms.", so we're going to have to invent a new sort of… formal title for them, if one hasn't been invented already.

I think there is one already - "Mx.", read as "myx", but I'm not sure about this pronunciation

We were taught as kids to not get in strangers cars or meet strangers from the Internet, and now we literally summon strangers from the Internet and get in their cars.

Most people can eat the same breakfast weeks in a row, without complaining about it. But the same dinner for weeks, just seems ridiculously insane

German and English used to be incredibly similar but then the French hijacked English and now nothing is pronounced how its spelled.

A M E N.

Words like enough and tough are said with a f sound because guess which language has a silent gh?
Its something I care about a little too much. _{because of a spelling bee I lost a long time ago}

We were taught as kids to not get in strangers cars or meet strangers from the Internet, and now we literally summon strangers from the Internet and get in their cars.

We as a society, obviously failed both things.

Q-Tips were originally called (and I'm not making this up) Baby Gays.

-omg

the correct plural form of octopus is technically octopuses not octopi cuz it has a greek root and not a latin one

Speaking of etymology and female anatomy, the word vanilla comes from the Latin vagina, literally 'sheath'.

This isn't so much of a fact as a thought. But I was thinking - in today's somewhat fractured world of gender, with pronouns and such being questioned - well, some of those nonbinary people and such are going to become teachers. But I don't suppose we would call them by "Mr." or "Ms.", so we're going to have to invent a new sort of… formal title for them, if one hasn't been invented already.

Mz

This isn't so much of a fact as a thought. But I was thinking - in today's somewhat fractured world of gender, with pronouns and such being questioned - well, some of those nonbinary people and such are going to become teachers. But I don't suppose we would call them by "Mr." or "Ms.", so we're going to have to invent a new sort of… formal title for them, if one hasn't been invented already.

Mz

Would that be pronounced "Mizz" or "M(ə)zz"?

I've heard Mx too(pronounced like "mix)

This isn't so much of a fact as a thought. But I was thinking - in today's somewhat fractured world of gender, with pronouns and such being questioned - well, some of those nonbinary people and such are going to become teachers. But I don't suppose we would call them by "Mr." or "Ms.", so we're going to have to invent a new sort of… formal title for them, if one hasn't been invented already.

Mz

Would that be pronounced "Mizz" or "M(ə)zz"?

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The Grand Exhibition in London was the first place to have a public toilet. (Men only though.)

If you die in the british parliament building you get put in jail