Did you Know? 3 May 4, 2008
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A snail can sleep for 3 years.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The average secretarys 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.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish havent got brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.


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