- “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
- “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
- Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they both were deaf.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- China has more English speakers than the United States
- Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “GO HANG YOURSELF”.
- Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
- Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different
- Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
- The longest place name still in use is:
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
- The sentence “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English Language.
- The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
- The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
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