- Coca-cola was originally green.
- Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than for US treasury.
- If the word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?
- If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
- Is there another word for a synonym?
- The word “verb” is a “noun“.
- The original story from “tales of 1001 Arabian nights” begins, “Aladdin was a little Chinese boy”.
- They have square watermelons in Japan… they stack better.
- Why can’t you make another word using all the letters in “anagram“?
- Your nose & ears never stop growing.
- Women invented all bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers.
- Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.
- The monarch butterfly’s sense of taste is about 12,000 times more sensitive than a human’s.
- Cinderella got to wear glass slippers thanks to a lousy translator. In the original version, she wore squirrel fur slippers, but the translator goofed
- The dot over the letter ‘I‘ is called a tittle.
- The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- Membership in the rose family (Rosaceae) is not limited to roses. It also includes almonds, apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries and strawberries.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
- Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Elephants can’t jump. Every other mammal can.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
3 Responses to “Fact Book”
long time no see 😉
welcome back gradly …
good facts to know … good job.
I’m reading Angels & Demons, so prepare for some tasty stuff very soon !!
Angels & Demons post … you ROCK man …