The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter in the English language.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The average human eats 8
spiders in their lifetime at night.
"I am." is the
shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A rhinoceros horn is made
of compacted hair.
The shortest war in
history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered
after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is
black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Donald Duck comics were
banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by
donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Shakespeare invented the
word "assassination" and "bump."
If you keep a Goldfish in
the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice
as much as men.
The name of all the
continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word "lethologica"
describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the
longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.
If the population of
China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because
of the rate of reproduction
The word racecar and
kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3
years.
China has more English
speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was
invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share
your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
The longest word in the
English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part
of DNA.
Cats have over one
hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the
same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Feb 1865 is the only
month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Cat's urine glows under a
black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci
invented the scissors.
Nutmeg is extremely
poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only one person in two
billion will live to be 116 or older.
If you yelled for 8
years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9
months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates
enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
On average, people fear
spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in
the body is the TONGUE.
It's impossible to sneeze
with your eyes open.
A crocodile cannot stick
its tongue out.
The ant always falls over
on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are
left-handed.
The catfish has over
27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the
most taste buds.
A cockroach will live
nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with
their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
An ostrich's eye is
bigger than its brain.
Starfish haven't got
brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
"mt".
Almonds are members of the peach family.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-
dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z,
hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.