100 Amazing Facts

# 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.
# 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.
# Honey is the only food that
doesn’t spoil.
# The word “set” has more
definitions than any other word in
the English language.
# Molecularly speaking, water is
actually much drier than sand.
# Human tonsils can bounce higher
than a rubber ball of similar weight
and size, but only for the first 30
minutes after they’ve been removed.
# US President John F. Kennedy was
an accomplished ventriloquist.
# Coca-Cola was originally green.
# Moths are unable to fly during an
earthquake.
# Contrary to popular belief, the
white is not the healthiest part of
an egg. It’s actually the shell.
# Nearly three percent of the ice in
Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
# Hot water will turn into ice faster
then cold water.
# “Rhythm” is the longest English
word without a vowel.
# Like fingerprints, every person’s
tongue print is different.
# No piece of normal-size paper can
be folded in half more than 7 times.
# The tongue is the only muscle
that is attached from one end only.
# Pumice is the only rock that floats
in water.
# Camel’s milk does not curdle.
# Your foot is the same length as
your forearm, and your thumb is the
same length as your nose. Also, the
length of your lips is the same as
the index finger.
# Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
# Buttermilk does not contain any
butter.
# The human brain is 80% water.
# Men’s shirts have the buttons on
the right while women’s shirts have
the buttons on the left.
# Human fingernails grow nearly 4
times faster than toenails.
# The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt
holds a constant temperature of 68
degrees Fahrenheit.
# The liquid inside young coconuts
can be used as a substitute for
blood plasma.
# Oak trees do not produce acorns
until they are fifty years of age.
# It takes approximately 2 million
flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of
honey.
# Human saliva has a boiling point
three times that of regular water.
# It is physically impossible to
urinate and give blood at the same
time.
# The letter J does not appear
anywhere in the periodic table of
the elements.
# The right lung of a human is
larger than the left one. This is
because of the space and placement
of the heart.
# Watermelons, which are 92% water,
originated from the Kalahari Desert
in Africa.
# The hair of some cancer patients
treated with chemotherapy can grow
back in a different colour, and
sometimes even be curly or straight.
# The markings that are found on
dice are called “pips.”
# 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
# The cigarette lighter was invented
before the match.
# Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or
dated his most famous painting, the
Mona Lisa.
# The ampersand (&) was the last
letter of the Latin alphabet.
# The palms of your hands and the
soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow
hair.
# Dolphins can swim and sleep at
the same time, as they sleep with
one eye open.
# Each nostril of a human being
registers smell in a different way.
Those by the right nostril are more
pleasant than the left.
# The longest single-syllable word in
the English language is “screeched.”
# The word “Checkmate” in chess
comes from the Persian phrase
“Shah-Mat,” which means “the king
is dead”.
# Each king in a deck of playing
cards represents a great king from
history: Spades – King David, Clubs
– Alexander the Great, Hearts –
Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius
Caesar.
# In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan
Swift described the two moons of
Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving
their exact size and speeds of
rotation. He did this more than 100
years before either moon was
discovered!
# If a statue in the park of a person
on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle; if the
horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle; if the
horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural
causes.