STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS
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STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS
Ø 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Try It. . .
Ø The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. ! !
Ø "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Ø A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
Ø The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Ø A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Ø Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Ø More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Ø Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Ø If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Ø Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Ø The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
Ø The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Ø TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. CoOL
Ø If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Ø The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
Ø A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Ø China has more English speakers than the United States.
Ø The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Ø Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
Ø The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Ø Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Ø Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Ø feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Ø Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Ø Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Ø Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Ø Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Ø Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Ø if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Ø The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Ø On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ø The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Ø it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Ø A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Ø The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Ø Polar bears are left-handed.
Ø The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
Ø A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Ø Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Ø An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Ø Starfish haven't got brains.
Ø Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Ø Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Ø The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Ø A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Ø There are more chickens than people in the world.
Ø Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Ø The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
Ø No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Ø "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Ø Almonds are members of the peach family
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