Monday 26 August 2013

More Facts...

  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.

Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.

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.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!

The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.

There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.


Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”

All Polar bears are left-handed.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”

Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.

The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.

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