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The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

American Airlines saved 40000USD in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

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

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.

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

The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The average secretarys left hand does 56% of the typing.

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

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

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 dollar bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

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

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in - dous: tremendous horrendous stupendous and hazardous.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that cannot

jump.

An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish havent got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Los Angeless full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size L.A.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

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

First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.

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