Saturday, 31 March 2012

Amazing facts



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



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