# Our eyes remain
the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
# The Barbie
doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# The Mona Lisa
has no eyebrows.
# 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 and 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
degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
# No word in the
English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
# Shakespeare
invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
# Stewardesses is
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.
# Money isn’t
made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
# 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.
# A duck’s quack
doesn’t echo. No one knows why!
# The “spot” on
the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was
because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction
of the bubbles.
# Chocolate can
kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous
system.
# Because metal
was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
# There are only
two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
“abstemious” and “facetious.”
# If one places a
tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself
to death.
# Bruce Lee was
so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.
# The original
name for butterfly was flutterby.
# By raising your
legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
# Dogs and cats,
like humans, are either right or left handed.
# Charlie Chaplin
once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
# Sherlock Holmes
NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
# The Guinness
Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from
Public Libraries.
# Bats always
turn left when exiting a cave.
# The shortest
English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
# All Polar bears
are left-handed.
# In England, the
Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
# “Dreamt” is the
only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
# Almonds are a
member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.
# Peanuts are one
of the ingredients of dynamite.
# The only 15
letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
“uncopyrightable”.
# In most
advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
# Tigers have
striped skin, not just striped fur.
# Alfred Nobel,
in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
# The planet
Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet
that rotates clock-wise.
# Honey is the
only food that doesn’t spoil.
# The word “set”
has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
# Molecularly
speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
# Human tonsils
can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for
the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.
# US President
John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.
# Coca-Cola was
originally green.
# Moths are
unable to fly during an earthquake.
# Contrary to
popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually
the shell.
# Nearly three
percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
# Hot water will
turn into ice faster then cold water.
# “Rhythm” is the
longest English word without a vowel.
# Like
fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different.
# No piece of
normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
# The tongue is
the only muscle that is attached from one end only.
# Pumice is the
only rock that floats in water.
# Camel’s milk
does not curdle.
# Your foot is
the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your
nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.
# Natural pearls
melt in vinegar.
# Buttermilk does
not contain any butter.
# The human brain
is 80% water.
# Men’s shirts
have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the
left.
# Human
fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
# The Great
Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
# The liquid
inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
# Oak trees do
not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age.
# It takes
approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
# Human saliva
has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
# It is
physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
# The letter J
does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
# The right lung
of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and
placement of the heart.
# Watermelons,
which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
# The hair of
some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different
colour, and sometimes even be curly or straight.
# The markings
that are found on dice are called “pips.”
# 111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
# The cigarette
lighter was invented before the match.
# Leonardo Da
Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
# The ampersand
(&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet.
# The palms of
your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.
# Dolphins can
swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.
# Each nostril of
a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are
more pleasant than the left.
# The longest
single-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
# The word
“Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the
king is dead”.
# Each king in a
deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades – King
David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius
Caesar.
# In Gulliver’s
Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos,
giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years
before either moon was discovered!
# If a statue in
the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died
in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a
result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
Here are some
more:
If you weighed
all the electrons used to store the information on the internet, it would
weight less than a chicken’s egg.
