INTERESTING FACTS

★ Ants never sleep!

★ When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.

★ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.

★ An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

★ “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

★ Babies are born without knee caps – actually,

they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.

★ Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

★ Butterflies taste with their feet.

★ A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

★ It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

★ Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

★ Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.

★ No word in the English language, rhymes with month - orange - silver -or- purple.

★ Shakespeare invented the words “assassination”and “bump".

★ Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

★ Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

★ The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

★ The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

★ The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

★ The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

★ The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

★ Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.

★ TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

★ You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

★ Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

★ The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.