101 Amazing & unknown facts
1.
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
2.
The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent
Roberts.
3.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
4.
Ants never sleep!
5.
When the moon is directly overhead, you will
weigh slightly less.
6.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the
telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
7.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
8.
“I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
9.
Babies are born without knee caps – actually,
they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6
years.
10.
Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
11.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
12.
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th
of a second.
13.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
14.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
15.
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as
minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16.
No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver or purple.
17.
Shakespeare invented the words “assassination”
and “bump.”
18.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only
the left hand.
19.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
20.
The names of all the continents end with the
same letter that they start with.
21.
The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
22.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar
and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
23.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
24.
The word “lethologica” describes the state of
not being able to remember the word you want.
25.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves
from the blowing desert sand.
26.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
27.
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
28.
Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of
cotton.
29.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks or it will digest itself.
30.
The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
31.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!
32.
The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor
who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers
were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles.
33.
Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains
theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
34.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out
during World War II were made of plaster.
35.
There are only two words in the English language
that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
36.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
37.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to
slow film down so you could see his moves.
38.
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
39.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your
back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
40.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or
left handed.
41.
Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a
Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
42.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear
Watson”.
43.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record
for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
44.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
45.
The shortest English word that contains the
letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
46.
All Polar bears are left-handed.
47.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not
allowed to speak.
48.
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in
the letters “mt.”
49.
Almonds are a member of the peach family, and
apples belong to the rose family.
50.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
51.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
52.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10
53.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
54.
Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are
instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
55.
The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently,
it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.
56.
Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
57.
The word “set” has more definitions than any
other word in the English language.
58.
Molecularly speaking, water is actually much
drier than sand.
59.
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber
ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after
they’ve been removed.
60.
US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished
ventriloquist.
61.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
62.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
63.
Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the
healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually the shell.
64.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic
glaciers is penguin urine.
65.
Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold
water.
66.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a
vowel.
67.
Like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print
is different.
68.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in
half more than 7 times.
69.
The tongue is the only muscle that is attached
from one end only.
70.
Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.
71.
Camel’s milk does not curdle.
72.
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 the index finger.
73.
Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
74.
Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
75.
The human brain is 80% water.
76.
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while
women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
77.
Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster
than toenails.
78.
The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a
constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
79.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as
a substitute for blood plasma.
80.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are
fifty years of age.
81.
It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a
bee to make 1 pound of honey.
82.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times
that of regular water.
83.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give
blood at the same time.
84.
The letter J does not appear anywhere in the
periodic table of the elements.
85.
The right lung of a human is larger than the
left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
86.
Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated
from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
87.
The hair of some cancer patients treated with
chemotherapy can grow back in a different color, and sometimes even be curly or
straight.
88.
The markings that are found on dice are called
“pips.”
89.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
90.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the
match.
91.
Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most
famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
92.
The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the
Latin alphabet.
93.
The palms of your hands and the soles of your
feet cannot tan, or grow hair.
94.
Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as
they sleep with one eye open.
95.
Each nostril of a human being registers smell in
a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
96.
The longest single-syllable word in the English
language is “screeched.”
97.
The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the
Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.
98.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a
great king from history: Spades – King
David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius
Caesar.
99.
In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described
the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of
rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!
100.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse
has both front legs in the 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.
101.
If you weighed all the electrons used to store
the information on the internet, it would weight less than a chicken’s egg.
(Posted By: - Deepak Kumar)