100 amazing & unknown facts!

Here is something for your light reading:

100 amazing & unknown facts!

# The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
# Ants never sleep!
# An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
# Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
# Butterflies taste with their feet.
# It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
# Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
# Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
# No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
# Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
# Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
# The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
# The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
# Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
# You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
# Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
# The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
# A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why!
# The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
# Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
# Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
# Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
# Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
# All Polar bears are left-handed.
# Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
# In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
# Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
# Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
# Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
# Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
# US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.
# Coca-Cola was originally green.
# Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
# Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
# Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
# “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
# Like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different.
# The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only.
# Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.
# Camel’s milk does not curdle.
# Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
# Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
# The human brain is 80% water.
# Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
# The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
# Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age.
# It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
# Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
# It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
# The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
# Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
# The markings that are found on dice are called “pips.”
# 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
# The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
# Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
# The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet.
# The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.
# The longest single-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
# The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.
# Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:  Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

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939 responses to “100 amazing & unknown facts!

  1. Nikhil jain from raipur cg

    These facts are really awsome of wich all persons should be made aware of….supppperlike…..!!

  2. gokul

    Such nice and wonderful facts…?

  3. gira

    ye raju bole to maza hi aa gaya re baba

  4. Anonymous

    the horse thing isn’t really true, it’s just a rumour

  5. Rahul

    the facts are unbelieveable.. dint even thought about it that it would be so interesting.

  6. miya bhai

    The shortest complete sentence in english is “Go”..

  7. Anonymous


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  9. Anonymous

    along with honey wine too doesnt spoil

  10. katey

    along with honey wine too doesnt spoil

  11. RiverKey9612

    Awesome Facts!! Can someone tell me if we can die in our dreams.. Is It Possible??

  12. sandeep

    Its very informative thing.

  13. Candy candy

    Unbelievable facts.Some are wrong I have verified. Truly awesome.

  14. Anonymous

    it is really amazing

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  16. shahadatt ali

    very useful information

  17. Anonymous

    These facts are really amazing and true also……

  18. Anonymous

    Bahut bekar facts really uselesss….

  19. Anonymous

    I hope this are true

  20. Anonymous

    Superb !!!!!!!!!!

  21. Rahul

    Facts are good

  22. aisha patel

    It’s interesting for class assembly
    As I collect it…………….k…………………

  23. Anonymous

    Coca Cola was never green; at one point the bottle it came in was. A duck’s quack does indeed echo. Polar bears are not all left-handed.

  24. sid

    amesome facts…..

  25. pritish bansal from luxmi vihar colony kaithal in [hry]

    1. which is the highest prime number in whole number
    2. which lady has no eye bross

  26. Anonymous

    i m realy amazed after reading it

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  28. Anonymous

    hey,have these facts classmate copied on last page on notebooks

  29. Prateek Jain

    One thing is rong, that only two words in English language have all vowels.

  30. jitu padhan

    its wonderful to know the world.

  31. Divyanshi Sachan

    these facts are really fantastic.
    i love them.

  32. Anonymous

    Nice… Looks more…

  33. Rupali

    Duck’s quack echo, refer to wikipedia

  34. kamlesh chauhan

    very nice and amazing fact.

  35. kamlesh chauhan

    nice and amazing fact.

  36. Anonymous

    great facts

  37. Albert Einstein

    It’s the chemical name of titin.

  38. gujali

    mavane titin!!idha kelu….Longest word in tamil is Ommalavandhenasoothavetruven

  39. Sergio Ortega

    Can you say it in a video please :)

  40. kaci

    wow i thought it was supercala…….. wow !!!!

  41. Anonymous


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