DID YOU KNOW

# Peanuts are one of the ingredients of
dynamite.# The only 15 letter word that
can be spelled without repeating a letter
is “uncopyrightable”.# In most
advertisements, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10# Tigers have striped
skin, not just striped fur.# Alfred Nobel,
in whose name the Nobel prizes are
instituted, was the inventor of
dynamite.# The planet Venus does not
tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons.
It is the only planet that rotates clock-
wise.
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# The word “set” has more definitions
than any other word in the English
language.# Molecularly speaking, water
is actually much drier than sand.#
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a
rubber ball of similar weight and size,
but only for the first 30 minutes after
they’ve been removed.# US President
John F. Kennedy was an accomplished
ventriloquist.# Coca-Cola was originally
green.
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# Hot water will turn into ice faster then
cold water.# “Rhythm” is the longest
English word without a vowel.# Like
fingerprints, every person’s tongue print
is different.# No piece of normal-size
paper can be folded in half more than 7
times.# The tongue is the only muscle
that is attached from one end only.#
Pumice is the only rock that floats in
water.
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# Your foot is the same length as your
forearm, and your thumb is the same
length as your nose. Also, the length of
your lips is the same as the index
finger.# Natural pearls melt in vinegar.#
Buttermilk does not contain any butter.#
The human brain is 80% water.# Men’s
shirts have the buttons on the right
while women’s shirts have the buttons
on the left.# Human fingernails grow
nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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# Oak trees do not produce acorns until
they are fifty years of age.# It takes
approximately 2 million flowers for a bee
to make 1 pound of honey.# Human
saliva has a boiling point three times
that of regular water.# It is physically
impossible to urinate and give blood at
the same time.# The letter J does not
appear anywhere in the periodic table of
the elements.# The right lung of a
human is larger than the left one. This is
because of the space and placement of
the heart.
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# The hair of some cancer patients
treated with chemotherapy can grow
back in a different colour, and
sometimes even be curly or straight.#
The markings that are found on dice are
called “pips.”# 111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321#
The cigarette lighter was invented before
the match.# Leonardo Da Vinci never
signed or dated his most famous
painting, the Mona Lisa.
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# Dolphins can swim and sleep at the
same time, as they sleep with one eye
open.# Each nostril of a human being
registers smell in a different way. Those
by the right nostril are more pleasant
than the left.# The longest single-
syllable word in the English language is
“screeched.”# The word “Checkmate” in
chess comes from the Persian phrase
“Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is
dead”.

# In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
described the two moons of Mars,
Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact
size and speeds of rotation. He did this
more than 100 years before either moon
was discovered!# If a statue in the park
of a person on a horse has both front
legs in the air, the person died in battle;
if the horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died as a result of wounds
received in battle; if the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died
of natural causes.
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# When the moon is directly overhead,
you will weigh slightly less.# Alexander
Graham Bell, the inventor of the
telephone, never called his wife or
mother because they were both deaf.#
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its
brain.# “I Am” is the shortest complete
sentence in the English language.#
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# Babies are born without knee caps –
actually, they’re made of cartilage and
the bone hardens between the ages of 2
and 6 years.# Happy Birthday (the song)
is copyrighted.# Butterflies taste with
their feet.# A “jiffy” is an actual unit of
time for 1/100th of a second.# It is
impossible to sneeze with your eyes
open.# Leonardo Da Vinci invented the
scissors.
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# Shakespeare invented the words
“assassination” and “bump.”#
Stewardesses is the longest word typed
with only the left hand.# Elephants are
the only animals that cannot jump.# The
names of all the continents end with the
same letter that they start with.# The
sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog” uses every letter in
the English language.
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# The word “lethologica” describes the
state of not being able to remember the
word you want.# Camels have three
eyelids to protect themselves from the
blowing desert sand.# TYPEWRITER is
the longest word that can be made using
the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.#
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# You can’t kill yourself by holding your
breath.# Money isn’t made out of paper.
It’s made out of cotton.# Your stomach
has to produce a new layer of mucus
every two weeks or it will digest itself.#
The dot over the letter “i” is called a
tittle.# A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No
one knows why!#
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# The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its
inventor who had red eyes – he was an
albino. ’7′ was because the original
containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’
indicated the direction of the bubbles.#
Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains
theobromine, which affects their heart
and nervous system.#

# Because metal was scarce, the Oscars
given out during World War II were made
of plaster.# There are only two words in
the English language that have all five
vowels in order: “abstemious” and
“facetious.”#
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# If one places a tiny amount of liquor
on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad
and sting itself to death.# Bruce Lee
was so fast that they actually had to
slow film down so you could see his
moves.# The original name for butterfly
was flutterby.# By raising your legs
slowly and laying on your back, you
cannot sink into quicksand.# Dogs and
cats, like humans, are either right or left
handed.
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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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1.Coca-Cola was originally green. 2.The
most common name in the world is
Mohammed. 3.The name of all the
continents end 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.

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the
bitterest.
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I learned that courage was not the
absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not
feel afraid, but he who conquers that
fear.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may
attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in
the end, there it is.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is
necessary. It fulfils the same function as
pain in the human body. It calls
attention to an unhealthy state of
things.
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Success consists of going from failure
to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ›
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a
pile driver. Hit the point once. Then
come back and hit it again. Then hit it a
third time - a tremendous whack.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his
mind and won't change the subject. ›
Courage is what it takes to stand up and
speak; courage is also what it takes to
sit down and listen.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts. ›
You have enemies? Good. That means
you've stood up for something, sometime
in your life.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the
creed of ignorance, and the gospel of
envy, its inherent virtue is the equal
sharing of misery.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I
awoke and saw that life was service. I
acted and behold, service was joy.
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Life is like dancing. If we have a big
floor, many people will dance. Some will
get angry when the rhythm changes. But
life is changing all the time.
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Here is the test to find whether your
mission on Earth is finished: if you're
alive, it isn't.
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How far you go in life depends on your
being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong. Because
someday in your life you will have been
all of these.

You will never be happy if you continue
to search for what happiness consists
of. You will never live if you are looking
for the meaning of life.
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for
the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy
for the poor.
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Never be bullied into silence. Never
allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself.
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I still find each day too short for all the
thoughts I want to think, all the walks I
want to take, all the books I want to
read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Don't go around saying the world owes
you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
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In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on. ›
The main purpose of life is to live
rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul
must languish when we give all our
thought to the body.
Honest disagreement is often a good
sign of progress. ›
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself, I won't
presume to probe into the faults of
others.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle
amusement. Properly understood and
applied, it is the most potent instrument
of action.
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Always aim at complete harmony of
thought and word and deed. Always aim
at purifying your thoughts and
everything will be well.
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A small body of determined spirits fired
by an unquenchable faith in their
mission can alter the course of history.