Amazing Facts

| Monday, November 9, 2009

AMAZING FACTS


---> Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


---> Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.


---> The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.


---> There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.


---> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.


---> A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.


---> There are more chickens than people in the world.


---> Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.


---> No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple.


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


---> Almonds are a member of the peach family.


---> Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.


---> There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


---> A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.


---> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.


---> Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.


---> When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.


---> A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.


---> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.


---> On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.


---> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


---> The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.


---> In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


---> The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.


---> There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.


---> "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand

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