**Do You Know That**

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The longest one-syllable word in English language is "Screeched."

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous & hazardous.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters," therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

" Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

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

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

When two words are combined to form a single word( e.g., motor + hotel= motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch)the new word is called "Portmanteau."

The words 'facetious' and 'abstemious' contain all the vowels in the correct order, as doesarsenious, meaning "containing arsenic".

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* An Indian Elephant has Only One Finger.


* The country Australia has Two National Songs.

* The Saint in Tamil Nadu Named Brighuhas ThreeEyes.

* The Cow has Four Lungs.


* The Earth Worm has Five Hearts.


* In Universe Man only has Sixth Sense.


* Great Philosopher Confucius was Seven Feet Height.

* A Spider has both Eyes and Legs as Eight.


* To Reach Mouth Everest their are Nine Ways.


* The Planet Satrun Has Ten Moons.


* A Silkworm has Eleven Brains.


* A flower name Kuranji in Tamil buds in once in Twelve Years.

* Indian National Song has Thirteen Lines.


* Mumtaj of Taj Mahal had Fourteen Children.


* The Lifetime of Wolf are Fifteen Years.

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1.Coca-Cola was originally green.

2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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

7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

15. 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

20. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. – Honey

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21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

22. A snail can sleep for three years.

23. All polar bears are left handed.

24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

25. Butterflies taste with their feet.

26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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

32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.

34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like Chocolate

40. Giraffe can clean there ears with their tongue

41. Both Humans and Giraffe have the same number of bones in the neck

42. And finally 99% of people who read this would try to lick their elbow now

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Most people know that America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, but few know why. Two myths about Vespucci are common. The first is that Vespucci was a fraud who never traveled to the New World. The second is that he was the first European to set foot on mainland America. Both are untrue.

Vespucci made two trips to the New World as a ship's navigator, the first in 1499. Then in 1503 and 1504 he published two letters he had written to Lorenzo de Medici about his voyages. In the letters he put forward the idea that what Columbus had discovered was not in fact a new route to Asia, but rather a new continent. Vespucci also published the first letter under the title Novus Mundus, or New World, thereby coining that phrase. The letters were a media hit (but whether their popularity was because of his innovative navigational theories or his description of the --- lives of American Indians is a question), and Vespucci became a celebrity.

In 1507, the cartographer Martin Waldseemueller published a map in his book Cosmographiae Introductio that designated the new world as America and the name was coined. Like many Italians of his era, Vespucci used the Latinized version of his first name, Americus, in formal writing. Waldseemueller used the feminine form of the name, America, because the names of Europe and Asia were also in the feminine.

So, America is named after the man who first recognized that it was a new continent and not just a part of Asia. Rather fitting actually, at least from a European perspective.

There is a legend, common in Britain, that America is actually named after a 15th century Bristol merchant named Richard Ameryk, who had some tenuous and vague connection with Cabot's voyages of exploration (exactly what role he played is not known, but it was probably minor and connected with financing the voyages). While Ameryk did exist, there is no evidence to indicate the New World continents are named after him. Waldseemueller's notes clearly indicate that he named the continents after Vespucci and most of the claims by supporters of the Ameryk hypothesis are not supported by anything other than a coincidence in spelling and a fierce, English patriotism that wishes the tale were true.

[mir@]

I was looking for this one which I had read when I was younger!!
Exellent

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

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[galaxy_110]

Oh my Goodness,

You guys do know our language even better than us.

Cheers

[Asalbanoo]

Pass the butter this is interesting.
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

1. Both have the same amount of calories.

2. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.

3. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

4. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

5. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

6. Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

7. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Now for Margarine
1. Very high in Trans fatty acids.

2. Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

3. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

4. Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

5. Lowers quality of breast milk.

6. Decreases immune response.

7. Decreases insulin response.

8. Here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING! Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC…

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it even those teeny weenie microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

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