Here are some amazig facts that I thought I would share with you!

1. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

2. The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.

3. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

4. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

5. The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

6. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

7. The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop.

8. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

9. New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

10. It's estimated that millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

11. It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.

12. In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.

13. Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.

14. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

15. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.

16. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

17. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

18. Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.

19. One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

20. It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer.

21. In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.

22. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine.

23. In Venezuela, fuel costs around $0.02.

24. The volume of the Earth's moon is close to the amount of the Pacific Ocean.

25. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

26. Having sex can reduce a fever because of the sweat produced.

27. An elephant can die from a broken heart.

28. The song "3" by Britney Spears is 3 minutes 33 seconds long.

29. A DAY is longer than a YEAR on Venus.

30. Homosexuality was listed as a mental illness with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) until 1973.

31. A fly that appears to have drowned can be revived with the use of everyday table SALT![/size]

32. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

33. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

34. Almonds are members of the peach family.

35. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

36. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

37. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

38. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

39. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

40. 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.

41. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.

42. 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."

43. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

44. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

45. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

46. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

47. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

48. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

49. 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.

50. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

51. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

52. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

53. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

54. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

55. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

56. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

57. 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."

58. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

59. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

60. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

61. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

62. 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.

63. The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."

64. A snail can sleep for three years.

65. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

66. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

67. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

68. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

69. Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.

70. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

71. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

72. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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

74. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

75. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself.

76. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

77. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

78. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

79. 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.

80. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"

81. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

82. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

83. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

84. A shrimp's heart is in their head.

85. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a milli-second.

86. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand, or attempted to do so (apart from bones).

87. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

88. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

89. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

90. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

91. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

92. Rats and horses can't vomit.

93. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

94. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

95. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

96. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

97. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

98. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

99. If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

100. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

101. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

102. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

103. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

104. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

105. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

106. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

107. Cat's urine glows under a black-light. Like fingerprints.

108. Everyone's tongue print is different.

109. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

110. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

111. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

112. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

113. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

114. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

115. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

116. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

117. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

118. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

119. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

120. Pearls melt in vinegar.

121. The three most valuable brand names on earth Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

122. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

123. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton is the second..

124. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours

125. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

126. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

127. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

128. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

129. Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

130. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

131. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

132. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

133. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

134. 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.

135. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring werent added to it.

136. Youre born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

137. A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.

138. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

139. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

140. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

141. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

142. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

143. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

144. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

145. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

146. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

147. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

148. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

149. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

150. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

151. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

152. The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.

153. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

154. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

155. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

156. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

157. You cant kill yourself by holding your breath

158. Butterflies taste with their feet.

159. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

160. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

161. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

162. Its against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

163. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

164. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.

165. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

166. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

167. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

168. The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

169. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

170. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

171. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

172. Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

173. Slugs have 4 noses.

174. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

175. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.


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