Monday, January 13, 2014

Some Amazing and Unknown Facts

·         Ants never sleep!
·         When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
·         Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.
·         An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
·         “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
·         Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.
·         Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
·         Butterflies taste with their feet.
·          A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
·         It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
·         Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
·         Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.
·         No word in the English languages, rhymes with month - orange - silver -or- purple.
·         Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump".
·         Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.
·         Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
·         The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
·         The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
·         The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
·         The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
·         The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
·         Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
·         TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
·         You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
·         Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
·         The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.

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