More Weird, Amazing, Useless Facts
More Weird, Amazing, Useless Facts
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average human swollows 8 spiders in their lifetime at night while they sleep.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more people who speak English than the United States.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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