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Stewardesses" is
the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. "Tautonyms"
are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same. "Taxi" is
spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and
Dutch. "Teh" means
"cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay"). "The sixth sick
sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in
English. "THEREIN"
is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive
letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and
herein. "Underground"
is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters
"und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 1 and 2 are the only
numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have. 1 in 5,000 north
Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
1 kg (2.2 pounds) of
lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries. 1,525,000,000 miles
of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States. 1.7 litres of saliva
is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart. 10 percent of all
human beings ever born are alive at this very moment. 10% of human dry
weight comes from bacteria 11% of the world is
left-handed. 111, 111, 111 X 111,
111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321 1200 equals 1 pound
(72 rupees). 123,000,000 cars are
being driven on highways in the United States. 166,875,000,000
pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States. 1959's A Raisin in
the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. 2 and 5 are the only
prime numbers that end in 2 or 5. 203 million dollars
is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 22,000 checks will be
deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour. 23% of all photocopier
faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their
buttocks. 25% of a human's
bones are in its feet. 259200 people die
every day.
27% of U.S. male
college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." 3% of all mammals are
monogamous 315 entries in
Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled. 315 words in the 1996
Webster's dictionary were mispelled. 4 tablespoons of
ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato. 40% of all people who
come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet. 40% of McDonald's
profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 43.7% of all
statistics are made up right on the spot 48% of astronauts
experience motion sickness. 52% of Americans
drink coffee. 55.1% of all US
prisoners are in prison for drug offenses. 56,000,000 people go
to Major League baseball games each year 67 million pounds of
pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in
the US. 78 rpm albums, used
prior to 1948, were only capable of recording for four minutes. It wasn’t until
later that year that Columbia Records introduced 33 rpm albums capable of
playing 23 minutes per side. 80% of animals on
earth are insects. 80% of arrested
criminals are male. In Disney's Fantasia,
the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is
Disney spelled backward. By raising your legs
slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. One in ten people live
on an island. 84% of a raw apple is
water. It takes more
calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 85% of men who die of
heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their
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