Some amazing facts you need to know
Submitted by DA on Saturday, 30 June 2007One Comment
- The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
- “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
- It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
- The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
- Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
- The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
“Rhythm†is the longest English word without a vowel.
although this may be true given the conventional definition of vowels, in a practical sense the letter ‘y’ is acting as a vowel with the same effect as ‘i’ if it was used there and, more importantly, the same sound/pronunciation.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutother/lettery
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