- Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
- 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 and 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 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees 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 to protect 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.
- 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.
Friday, 20 February 2015
Amazing Mystery facts of World(ENG) Part-2
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