DID YOU KNOW THAT.....

 

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

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.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.

The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shahmat,"which means, "the king is dead." in hindi chess is called as SHATRANJ and checkmate is called as shah and maat(maat means defeated)

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.

The longest palindrome in English language is malayalam

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

"Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.

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