Did You Know?

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

A capon is a castrated rooster.

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Did You Know?

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was the host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom'.

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If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire Town Hall, you are entitled to receive $0.10 from the town.

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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the 'American Pie' (thus the name of the Don McLean song).

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The only nation whose name begins with an 'A' but doesn't end with an 'A' is Afghanistan.

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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.

Did You Know?

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

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Camels milk does not curdle.

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In every episode of Seinfield there is a superman somewhere.

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Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

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The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

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All porcupines float in water.

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"Hang On, Snoopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

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The 'save' icon on Microsoft Word' shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.

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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning 'containing arsenic'.

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Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Did You Know?

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

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A man called Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

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The average person laughs ten times a day.

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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Slugs have four noses.

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You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

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Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

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Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

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It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

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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.

Did You Know?

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

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The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only one testicle.

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Did You Know?

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that).

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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

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There are more chickens than people in the world.

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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

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Did You Know?

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/1000 of a second.

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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

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A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too)!

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that also)!

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Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

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The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.

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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

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The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

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One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

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Like fingerprints, every one's tongue print is different.

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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.

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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

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The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

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The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

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Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

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It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

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Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

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Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it.

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On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

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More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

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More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

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Did You Know?

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

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There is a city called 'Rome' on every continent.

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It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

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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.

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Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts and worms like fried bacon.
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Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions.
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What is called a 'French kiss' in the English speaking world is known as an 'English kiss' in France.
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'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Did You Know?

Samuel Johnson, born 300 years ago this week, wrote one of the most important books in the English language. So what made his dictionary so special?

"Dictionaries," said Samuel Johnson "are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true." It may not have achieved perfection but Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, is generally regarded as one of the most important works of scholarship in the English language.

Such was its authority that it remained the most pre-eminent of its kind for more than 170 years, until the advent of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928.

Remarkably, during the nine years it took him to complete his work, his wife Elizabeth, known as Tetty, died and he suffered increasing bouts of depression that had afflicted him throughout his life.

Footnote

Johnson's wasn't the first English dictionary; around 20 had been produced previously, most notably Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum of 1721. But there was open dissatisfaction with their lack of authority and style.

Did You Know?

iPhones are not yet sold in China.

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Margaret Thatcher suffered one parliamentary defeat as prime minister - on Sunday trading laws

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English holidaymakers drink an average of eight alcoholic drinks a day.

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The UK population grew more in 2008 than at any time since 1962.

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And Germany's population is shrinking.

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The smell of grass makes people happy.

Did You Know

'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'

uses every letter in the alphabet.

The words 'racecar' 'kayak' and 'level'

are the same whether read right to left

or left to right (palindromes).

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

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There are only four words in the English

Language that end in 'dous'

[tremendous, horrendous

stupendous and hazardous]

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TYPEWRITER

Is the longest word that can be made using

the letters only in one row of the keyboard.

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Not many people know that!

Did You Know?

Tesco is the third largest global retailer based on revenue, behind Wal-Mart and France's Carrefour, but second largest based on profit, ahead of Carrefour. In 2008 the company employed approximately 440,000 people.
John Horn founded Tesco in 1919 when he began to sell surplus groceries from a stall in the East End of London. The name came about after Jack Cohen bought a a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell. He made new labels using the first three letters of the suppliers name (TES) and the first two letters of his surname (CO). forming the word TESCO.
The first Tesco store was opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Edgeware, Middlesex. The first self-service store opened in St.Albans in 1951.
Jack Cohen was an enthusiastic advocate of trading stamps. He signed up with Green Shield Stamps in 1963 and became one of the company's largest clients.