Interesting Facts

Contributed by Mathew Chacko

• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• The word 'stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes (not that anybody really noticed).
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• 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 3 years.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• No president of the United States was an only child.
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
  

[Holistic Living Home][Holisticonline Home]

1stholistic.com and Holisticonline.com are developed and maintained by ICBS, Inc.
Send mail to: info@holisticonline.com with comments about this web site.
Copyright © 1998-2008 ICBS, Inc. Terms of Use
All Rights Reserved.