The name of
all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to
remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000.00 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
A dentist invented the electric chair.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least nine million
other people in the world?
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing. (You mean I've still got baby eyes?)
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the
length of a normal human's neck.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
full moon.
The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as
is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than
your thumb.