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10-12-2005, 12:15 AM
I got these from my school planner:
The Toothbrush was invented in 1498.
A group of 12 or more cows is called a flink.
Giraffe's can't cough.
"Dreamt" is the ionly English word that ends in the letters "mt"
Mona Lisa has no eyebrows in the Leonardo Da Vinci painting.
In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 were injured.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4.20.
A dragonfly has a life spam of 24 hours.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
The Avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first word spoken on the moon was "okay".
In English "four" is the nly digit that has the same number of letters as it's value; 4.
Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill were all dyslexic.
The longest earthworm in the world was reported to exceed 150ft. IN LENGTH.
Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.
The only word in the English language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Never phoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
There are 2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7,000 dialects.
Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A Kangaroo can hop up to 40mph.
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
There is 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
The Oak Tree can take as long as 30 years to produce it's first crop of acorns.
The words "Racecar" and "Kayak" read the same backwards, this is called a palindrome.
The bible is available in 2,233 languages.
No word in the English language rhymes with "Orange", "Month", "Silver" or "Purple".
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springteens "Born in the USA"
They're like very interesting. wow. <3
The Toothbrush was invented in 1498.
A group of 12 or more cows is called a flink.
Giraffe's can't cough.
"Dreamt" is the ionly English word that ends in the letters "mt"
Mona Lisa has no eyebrows in the Leonardo Da Vinci painting.
In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 were injured.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4.20.
A dragonfly has a life spam of 24 hours.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
The Avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first word spoken on the moon was "okay".
In English "four" is the nly digit that has the same number of letters as it's value; 4.
Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill were all dyslexic.
The longest earthworm in the world was reported to exceed 150ft. IN LENGTH.
Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.
The only word in the English language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Never phoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
There are 2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7,000 dialects.
Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A Kangaroo can hop up to 40mph.
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
There is 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
The Oak Tree can take as long as 30 years to produce it's first crop of acorns.
The words "Racecar" and "Kayak" read the same backwards, this is called a palindrome.
The bible is available in 2,233 languages.
No word in the English language rhymes with "Orange", "Month", "Silver" or "Purple".
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springteens "Born in the USA"
They're like very interesting. wow. <3