Amazing Facts

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•                In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
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  ·       Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
  
  
  ·       Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
  
  
  ·       Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
  
  
  ·       Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
  
  
  ·       Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
  
  
  ·       The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  
  
  ·       "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 
  
  
  ·       Almonds are members of the peach family. 
  
  
  ·       The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 
  
  
  ·       The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. 
  
  
  ·       The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. 
  
  
  ·       "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
  
  
  ·        There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  
  
  ·       The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is *pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
  
  
  ·        The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
  
  
  ·        Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
  
  
  ·        An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  
  
  ·        Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
  
  
  ·        Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
  
  
  ·        The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. 
  
  
  ·       A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
  
  
  ·        There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
  
  
  ·       Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  
  
  ·        It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
  
  ·        Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
  
  
  ·        The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. 
  
  
  ·       The letters KGB stand for KomitetGosudarstvennoyBezopasnosti
  
  
  ·        "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
  
  
  ·        To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
  
  
  ·        The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." 
  
  
  ·        Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
  
  
  ·        The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
  
  
  ·        The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
  
  
  ·       Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  
  
  ·       Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
  
  
  ·       The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
  
  ·       TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  
  
  ·       Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  
  
  ·       Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself.
  
  
  ·       There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
  
  
  ·       There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
  
  
  ·       The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
  
  
  ·       Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
  
  
  ·       That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life. 
  ·       The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
  
  
  ·       Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. ;)