AMAZING BUT TRUE!

• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

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

• Happy Birthday was the 1st song to be performed in space, by the Apollo IX crew on March 8, 1969.

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

• "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

• The elephant is the only land mammal that can't jump!

• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

• Slugs have 4 noses.

• The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

• One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from 1 to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

• The Liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood Plasma.

• The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.

• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

• Apples, not caffeine are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

• Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

• "Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

• 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

• The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

• 111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321

• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them & copying their buttocks.

• Oaks trees do not produce acorns until they are at least 50 years of age.

• Walt Disney was afraid of Mice.

• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

• The average person laughs 10 times a day!

• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

• 90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.

• The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley`s gum.  

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• There is a city called Rome on every continent.

• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

• A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.

• A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

• Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

• Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

• Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

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

• The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

• 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

• Reindeer like to eat bananas.

• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

• The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

• More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.

• A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.