Amazing Facts

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 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 toprotect 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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