Unusual Facts
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Gum is made from trees!
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 characters long and refers
to a distinct part of DNA.
In every episode of Seinfeld , there is a Superman somewhere.
Your hair grows three inches every month.
Pigs take 34.3294 repeating minutes to shave.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896 Zanzibar
surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. It's fur is not white , but clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis'
middle name was spelled Aron , in honor of his brother.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doe not wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one of her feet.
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.
The sentence, ' The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every
letter in the English language.
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they begin
with.
The word 'lethogica' 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
on 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.
The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left
to right , or right to left.
A snail can sleep for three years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first class.
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 nine million other people
in the world ?
'I am' is the shortest complete sentence in the English Language . Not quite.
'BE is a complete sentence ; in an imperative statement , the subject ' you'
is is understood.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 characters long and 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.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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.
In every episode of Seinfeld , there is a Superman somewhere.
The flea can jump 350 times it's body length. It's like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
No word in English rhyme's with ' month ' , ' orange ' ' silver '
, or 'purple '.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon
of diesel that it burns.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
In the last 4000 years , no new animals have been domesticated