Amazing Facts
1.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
2. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
3. There are more chickens than people in the world.
4. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
5. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
6. Maine is the only American state whose name is just one syllable.
7. Butterflies taste with their feet.
8. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, hazardous, and stupendous.
9. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
10. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
11. The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
12. Someone
paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film
'Some Like It Hot'.
13. Your
tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only
one end.
14. More
than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of
Africa.
15. In
the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of
2003)
have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of
Jesus
Christ burned into it?
16. A
kiss lasting one minute can burns around 30 calories.
17. Buckingham
Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
18. There
was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
19.
Abraham Lincoln's
mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on
poisonous
snakeroot.
20.
After the death
of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist
and put in a jar for future study.
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