To Be Continued . . .
To Be Continued . . .
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The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet long.
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
A Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first
flight.(the Wright brother’s invented the airplane).
There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The word “set ” has the most number of definitions in the English language;192.
Slugs have four noses.
Sharks can live up to 100 years.
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.
The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in
Montana in 1887.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is
actually a tiny sonic boom.
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year
presidency.
Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in
it to begin with.
The world’s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
Octopus have three hearts.
If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The
survivor is born.
250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.
Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
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1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT"
3. Almonds are members of the peach family.
4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
5. The dot over the letter 'I is called a tittle.
6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosis.
11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosesl.
12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangiha ngakoauauotamate aturipukakapikim aungahoronukup okaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
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1. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
2. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the
music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding
to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However,
sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle
ear.
3. Many spiders have eight eyes.
4. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is
used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes
are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the
roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell
and taste information to the brain.
5. Birds don't sweat
6. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft
7. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
8. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
9. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up
to 95 miles per hour.
10. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the
flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert
11. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese
emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of
boiling water.
12. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a
week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced
by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one
will die.
13. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue --
more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears
with its 21-inch tongue
14. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't
Mess with them
15. An elephant can smell water three miles away
16. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
17. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
18. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history
19. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The
giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
20. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
21. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning
its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
22. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue
whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
23. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich.
Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size
and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to
hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest
living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
24. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from
other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint
25. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e.
50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e.
150000 Kg.
26. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
27. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
28. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the
winter
29. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a
moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the
temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300
degrees.
30. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could
fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The
most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually
an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds
of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
31. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles
per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean
large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its
beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.
32. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's
tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west.
Uranus has 15 moons.
33. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears
blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big
Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour!
Neptune has 8 moons.
34. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such
an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than
Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
35. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the
United States have a least one radio. Most families have several
radios.
36. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio
by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching,
baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all
converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they
reach your radio and your ears.
37. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The
microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical
signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's
sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some
strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then
sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They
reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the
signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends
it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up
the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of
the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the
places the announcer's voice travels.
38. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the
tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you
want your antenna to "catch."
39. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including
panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name
is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time,
mountain lions were very common!
40. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those
that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr.
Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot
roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15
feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as
well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on
their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one
slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!
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This is awesome - I bet you didn't know this...
Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)
And
Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting
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1-Los Angles contains more Cats than People.
2-Napoleon,one of the greatest Generals in history scared of Cats.
3-Romans are in the habit of eating door mice.
4-As Christmas Eve in 1969,black snow fell in sweden.
5-Astronauts can grow an inch or so during time in Space.
6-The original name of Butterfly is"Flutterby".
7-A shirmp's head is in its head.
8-Shark never get Sick.
9-There is a city called"Rome"on every Continent....
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1. A mango tree can live and bear fruit up to 300 years.
2. Chocolate doesn't cause pimples and teeth decay.
3. An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain.
4. The number of moles on your body increases through exposure to sunlight.
5. Rubber is used to make bubble gum.
6. Water melon is not a fruit but a vegetable from the cucumber family.
7. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
8. One out of 20 people has an extra rib.
9. When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times of your body weight.
10. A kangaroo can't jump if its tail is off the ground.
11. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
12. All polar bears are left-handed.
13. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.
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To Be Continued . . .
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