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. Doesn't that make it a single letter, finally?
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. Let me guess, flies taste like fried wantons once you dip them in schezwan sauce?
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions! "Set" the "set" of settings on the television "set" to default?
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. So if a French guy kisses an English girl in the middle of the Atlantic ocean on a boat, what do we call it?
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. Irony, eh?
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. And so, pepperoni was born.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Let's try kicking it. Or let's use the bones to build homes!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Oh, really?
There is a city called Rome on every continent. There's a Chinatown in every CITY. Beat that, Rome.
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Wow, I'd be dead if my heart had the same stamina as I do!
Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. It's called "alcohol", go grab a bottle! Teehee.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London. Talk about creepy.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. Hah! In your faces, lefties!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump... Unless you poke it from behind!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! Oh.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! So is everyone's butt print!
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. Isn't that how blood cancer began?
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. That explains why he was always so frustrated.
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. Why don't they open the mummy and eat the spices it was preserved in too? Or did they already try that?Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Oooh. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it. Wouldn't that just make it look cooler? On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. My pencil snapped in two after writing 3 words, does that reduce the average? More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. Lactose intolerance? Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. Haha haha haha. Oh. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! Can't they see what they're hitting though?!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. So what was it named after? It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. You can still yawn though. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. Do they just fall out? Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! And the point of that is?! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! If only I could… It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. But I just did. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. Wow. Not. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not. Sick. Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! The things a man could do with a tongue of that length, wow! The average person laughs 10 times a day! An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. So is my cousin sister's. |
One of these facts is false, can anyone point out which one?
is it the ostrich one?