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48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by AloyalNigerian(m): 3:34pm On Jul 07, 2017
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DO YOU KNOW ?

1.Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.

2.The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

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

4.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5.Ants never sleep!

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

7.Coca-Cola was originally green.

8.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

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

11.There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

12.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

13.There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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

15.Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

16.Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.

17.Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

18.You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

19.It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

21.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

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

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

24.“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.

25.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

26.Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne 
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

27.It is impossible to lick your elbow.

28.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

29.If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

30.What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

31.Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? 
Ans. - Honey.

32.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

33.A snail can sleep for three years.

34.All polar bears are left handed.

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

36.Butterflies taste with their feet.

37.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

38.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

39.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

41.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

42.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

43.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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

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

46.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

47.Most lipstick contains fish scales.

48.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by Harshirama(m): 9:14pm On Jul 07, 2017
Cool facts
Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by urvillagepeoplee(m): 1:08am On Jul 08, 2017
no be lie
Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by Clearsure(m): 4:46am On Jul 09, 2017
Mann you are indeed a cyclopedia

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Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by GMan650(m): 2:30pm On Jul 09, 2017
44.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

No wonder, the more you kill them the more u have them. I'll stop killing them henceforth, they can't comman turn me to a serial killer tongue


47.Most lipstick contains fish scales.

I detest the odour so much

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

For 5hrs, that'll be about 3500 times. Mehn, my ear is the China of bacteria grin

24.“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
Rhythms is actually longer wink

23.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
One hell of a tongue twister, I can't even say it once

5.Ants never sleep!
Workaholics
Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by GMan650(m): 2:44pm On Jul 09, 2017
Lemme add one: Lalasticlala doesn't like snakes grin
Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by Ipheyemmy01(m): 8:46pm On Jul 09, 2017
Amazing..
Re: 48 Interesting FACTS You Probably Didn't Know by Almaheed: 11:07pm On Jul 09, 2017
simple and educative thank you op

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