*Some anagrams:
Here Come Dots
---> The Morse Code
Twelve plus one
---> Eleven plus two
In one of the Bards best thought of tragedies our insistent hero Hamlet
queries, on two fronts, about how life turns rotten.
---> To be or not to be, that is the question. Wether tis nobler in the mind to
suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
*On average people fear spiders, more than they do death.
*An ant can life 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight…and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
*The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘floccipaucinihilipilification’. It means ‘the action of estimation as worthless’.
*If a statue in a park of a person on a horse has:
Both front legs in the air, the person died in battle;
One front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
All four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
* “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
*The soft plastic headphones used on aeroplanes create a warm, moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal for breeding bacteria.
*Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
*An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
*If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 and the largest amount of money in coins without being able to give change for a dollar.
*There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination “uu” in them. They are: muumuu, vacuum and continuum.
*The world’s first postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in Britain in May 1840.
*For the people living in the UK: the first royal corgi was ‘Dooky’ bought for Queen Elizabeth II in 1933, when she a seven-year-old princess.
*An ostrich’s pupil is rectangular.
*Yo-yo means ‘come-come’.
*The world’s largest fruit, the double coconut, takes ten years to ripen.
*The first creature to be mourned as extinct was the Dodo, which lives on the island of Mauritius quite happily for centuries until Europeans discovered is in the 16th century. Within 200 years there were none left.
*Children have more bones than their parents do. As an adult, the longest bone in your body is the femur, in your thigh.
*By the time you are 70, your heart will have rested for 40 years - Not all at once though. Just a little bit between heartbeats.
*There are 639 muscles in your body.
*Banging your head against a brick wall uses 150 calories an hour.
*The shortest French work with all five vowels in is “oiseau” which means bird.
*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
*79% of a potato is water – 16% is starch.
*Lettuce is 97% water and cucumber is 95% water.
*Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
*58% of men are balding by the time they are 50.
*There are approximately 65 alphabets in use throughout the world today.
*The English language has more words in it than any other.
*A lion’s roar can be heard as far as five miles away.
*It would take 17 days for a snail to travel one mile.
*The letter E is the most-used letter in the English language.
*On 16th April 1900 the USA issued the world’s first book of stamps.
*There is a new star in our galaxy about every 18 days.
*To see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun; it appears when a ray of sun hits a damp patch of air.
*Lands near the Equator have no summer or winters – because the Equator never tilts away from the sun.
*Raindrops are shaped link domes – flat-bottomed circles.
*The Redwood tree is the largest living thing on Earth. It can reach a height of 112m (364ft). Taller than the Statue of Liberty.
*Trees have been known to live for 5,000 years.
