100 unknown facts #Our eyes remain thesame size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara MillicentRoberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightlyless. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of thetelephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrich’s eye is biggerthan its brain. # “I Am” is theshortest complete sentence inthe English language. # Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bonehardens between theages 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 Vinciinvented thescissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word inthe English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented thewords “assassination” and “bump.” # Stewardesses is the longestword typed with only theleft hand. # Elephantsare the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all thecontinentsend with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, “The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in theEnglish language. # The shortest war inhistory was between Zanzibar and Englandin 1896. Zanzibar surrenderedafter 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle inthe bodyis thetongue. # 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 blowingdesertsand. # TYPEWRITER is the longestword that can be made using theletters on only one row of the keyboard. # You can’t kill yourself by holdingyour 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 the7-Up comesfrom its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because theoriginal containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicatedthedirection of thebubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs,as it contains theobromine, which affectstheir heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, theOscars givenout during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words inthe 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 stingitself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name forbutterfly 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 GuinnessBook of Records holds the record forbeing thebook most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the lettersA, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.” # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England,the Speaker of theHouse is not allowed to speak. # “Dreamt” is theonly English word that ends in theletters “mt.” # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belongto the rose family. # Peanuts are one of theingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word that can be spelledwithout repeatinga letter is “uncopyrightable”. # In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10 # Tigershave striped skin, not just striped fur. # AlfredNobel, inwhose name the Nobelprizes are instituted,was the inventor of dynamite. # The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is theonly planet that rotates clock-wise. # Honey is the only foodthat doesn’t spoil. # The word “set” has more definitionsthan any other word inthe English language. # Molecularlyspeaking, water is actually much drier than sand. # Human tonsilscan bounce higher thana rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only forthe first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed. # US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist. # Coca-Cola was originally green. # Moths are unableto fly during an earthquake. # Contrary to popularbelief, thewhite is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually theshell. # Nearly three percent of theice in Antarctic glaciers is penguinurine. # Hot water will turninto ice faster then cold water. # “Rhythm” is the longestEnglish 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 than7 times. # The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only. # Pumice is theonly 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 theindex finger. # Natural pearls melt in vinegar. # Buttermilkdoes not contain any butter. # The human brain is 80% water. # Men’s shirts have thebuttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttonson theleft. # Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. # The Great Pyramid at Giza inEgypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit. # The liquidinside young coconuts can be used as a substitute forbloodplasma. # Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age. # It takes approximately 2 million flowers fora beeto make 1 poundof honey. # Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. # It is physically impossible to urinate and give bloodat the same time. # The letter J does not appear anywhere inthe periodic tableof the elements. # The right lung of a human is larger than theleft one. This is because of thespace 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 inventedbefore thematch. # Leonardo Da Vincinever signed or dated his most famous painting,theMona Lisa. # The ampersand (&) was thelast 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 ina different way. Those by theright nostril are more pleasant thanthe left. # The longestsingle-syllable word in theEnglish language is “screeched.” # The word “Checkmate” inchess comes from thePersian 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 theGreat, 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 speedsof rotation. He did this more than100 years beforeeither moon was discovered! # If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe 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. Source-Indian realist
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