Strange but true facts #2
September 1st, 2010
Here are some more strange but true facts, you probably did or did not know:
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
If the population of China walked past you in single file,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until
the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.
Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
“Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand,
“lollipop” with your right.
The cruise liner, QE2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The words ‘racecar’ and kayak’ are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at a red light.,
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
a watch face, is 10:00.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks,
otherwise it will digest itself.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels
in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
occurs five times, “indivisibility.”
The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there
were three gifts.
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