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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Amazing facts

These are some amazing facts which many people may or may not know!!


  • The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Try It. . .

  • The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. ! !

  • "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

  • A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

  • The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in

    1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

  • A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

  • Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

  • More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

  • Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

  • if you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

  • The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

  • The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

  • TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. CoOL

  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

  • The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

  • A snail can sleep for 3 years.

  • China has more English speakers than the United States .

  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

  • Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

  • The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

  • feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

  • Cat's urine glows under a black light.

  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

  • Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the

  • child reaches 2-6 years of age.

  • Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

  • if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

  • On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

  • The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

  • it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

  • The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

  • Polar bears are left-handed.

  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank

    #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

  • A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves

    to death.

  • Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals

    that can't jump.

  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

  • Starfish haven't got brains.

  • Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

  • The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

  • A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

  • There are more chickens than people in the world.

  • Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey .

  • The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

  • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

  • Almonds are members of the peach family.

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