AmaZing TRIVIA:
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.
- A mosquito has 47 teeth.
- A shark's heart will beat for hours if it is removed from the body.
- At the moment of being hanged, many observers have noted, the victim, if male, often has an erection and may even ejaculate.
- A person living to age 75 will have slept about 220,000 hours -- or about 23 years.
- A human fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not
- A grasshopper's blood is white.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
- A typical double-bed mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites (Demodex folliculorom)
- A pig is a hog -- hog is generic name for all swine -- but a hog is not a pig. In the terminology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old.
- An octopus has three hearts.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning!
- Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
- As late as 1932, jail-breaking in Texas was not a crime if the prisoner escaped without using a gun.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
- Bulls are color-blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is be it red or neon yellow!
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?!
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (?)
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue!
- Pirates pierced their ears and wore earrings because they believed it improved their vision.
- Superman's birthday is February 29th.
- The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The total amount of skin covering the human body weighs six pounds.
- The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- You grow by about 8mm (0.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day. During the day, cartilage discs in the spine are squeezed like sponges by gravity while you stand or sit. But at night, when you lie down to sleep, the pressure is relieved and the discs swell again. For the same reason, astronauts can be temporarily 50 mm (2in) taller after a long spaceflight.
- You blink about 84,000,000 times a year!
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