Some Amazing and Unknown Facts ❀ ★ 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. ★ 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.
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