DID YOU KNOW??

Þ     Ants never sleep!

Þ     When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.

Þ     Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.

Þ     An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Þ     “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Þ     Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.

Þ     Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

Þ     Butterflies taste with their feet.

Þ     A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Þ     It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Þ     Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Þ     Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.

Þ     No word in the English language, rhymes with month - orange - silver -or- purple.

Þ     Shakespeare invented the words “assassination”and “bump".

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

Þ     Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

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

Þ     The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”

Þ     uses every letter in the English language.

Þ     The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Þ     The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

Þ     Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.

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

Þ     You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

Þ     Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

Þ     The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'