- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
- That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
- That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Amazing facts
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