useless facts

  • bookkeeper has the most consecutive double letters
  • chilver (a female lamb) rhymes with silver
  • haribo is an acronym formed from hans riegel (founder) bonn (founding city)
  • ikea is an acronym that consists of the founder's initials (ingvar kamprad), and those of elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village agunnaryd (his hometown in smÃ¥land, southern sweden).
  • lego is derived from the danish phrase 'leg godt' (play well)
  • m&m's is names after mars & murrie's
  • pencils can write for ~35 miles
  • pianos have 88 keys, 52 white keys and 36 black keys
  • play-doh was originally made as a wallpaper cleaner
  • polygraphs track heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate and electro-dermal activit (sweat)
  • tmesis is the only english word that starts with 'tm'