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    20 Interesting Facts

    1. A zebra is white with black stripes.

    2. All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

    3. Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

    4. Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

    5. The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

    6. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

    7. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

    8. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

    9. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

    10. The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

    11. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

    12. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

    13. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

    14. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

    15. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

    16. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

    17. In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatau put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

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

    19. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

    20. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.


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    Re: 20 Interesting Facts

    Hmm. Number 2 is interesting. Being as women are from there and all.

    Number 13 is hilarious in its irony.
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    • #3
      Re: 20 Interesting Facts

      MOG NUMBER 13 IS FREAKING ME OUT

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        LOL Heidi..wonder what the word for fear of BIG BOLD TYPE FACES is?


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          sorry I will keep it down forgot to take my pill today is all

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            I find the cockroach one interesting.
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            • #7
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              Originally posted by Heidi3
              sorry I will keep it down forgot to take my pill today is all
              LOL, I just couldn't resist.


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                11. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

                That is good to know. I won't try to outrun a hippo.

                14. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

                That could explain why the truant officer paid a visit to my house once. I wish I would have known there was a word for it. Maybe I could have used it to my advantage.

                15. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

                Maybe they're depressed.
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                • #9
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                  Originally posted by Piasabird
                  15. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

                  Maybe they're depressed.
                  You're probably right, I know I'd be depressed if I was all slimey and it took me forever to get where I was going, oh, and on top of that, leaving a trail for everyone to see everywhere you go! Yep, that's depressing.


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                    Originally posted by MotherOfGizmo
                    You're probably right, I know I'd be depressed if I was all slimey and it took me forever to get where I was going, oh, and on top of that, leaving a trail for everyone to see everywhere you go! Yep, that's depressing.
                    That's probably why they're so slow, too. And they eat them in France!
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                    • #11
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                      They eat them at my folks house too! Blek! I used to have nightmares that if you ate them when you were sleeping they would crawl back up your throat! Ewww ewww ewww


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                      • #12
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                        Since you brought up nightmares, as a child I had nightmares about sitting on the toilet and a snake coming up and biting me on the butt!
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                        • #13
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                          Originally posted by Piasabird
                          Since you brought up nightmares, as a child I had nightmares about sitting on the toilet and a snake coming up and biting me on the butt!
                          Yep I had that one too. Since John is a plumber I can tell you, he hasn't seen any snakes come in that way yet but he has see squirrels! he had to pull a dead one out and then a few months later the same lady opened the lid of the same toilet and a live wet and wild one came screaming out at her! needless to say she was a wee bit freaked out!


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                            did you know there is actualy a web site for treatment of #13?

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                              Thanks for the compliment.

                              #13, I'll have to go back , is that the one about the fear of big words?


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