Animals & Birds A snail can sleep for three years. All polar bears are left handed. Butterflies taste with their feet. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. Hydra - an aquatic creature is the only living creature that never die. It regenerates, replacing its cells with fresh ones. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Foods & Drinks Coca-Cola was originally green because of fresh cocoa leaves. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. Strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside. All other vegetables must be replanted every year except two perennial vegetables; Asparagus and rhubarb that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. Games & Sports There are 366 dimples on a golf ball? There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play first four moves, per side, in chess. Playing cards in India are in round shape. Boxing is the only sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the winner until the contest ends. 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. General The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. History If a statue of a person in the park 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. Mao Zedong of China never brush his teeth in his lifetime. When Elizabeth-I of Russia died in 1762, there were 15,000 dresses in her closets. Human Body Randy Gardner of San Diego is the longest person who has gone without sleep for 11 days in 1965. He broke the record of Peter Tripp of New York, who settled a record of 8.5 days without a wink. Usually right handed people utilize left side of brain for all their conscious, voluntary activities. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Women blink nearly twice as much as men! You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. It is impossible to lick your elbow. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. 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. An average person eat 60,000 pounds of food in his lifetime. An average person spent 24 years of his life in sleeping. An average woman consume 6 lbs. of lipstick in her lifetime. Sitting while talking on the phone for eight hours will burn 914 calories. Driving a car for eight hours will knock off around 1,219 calories. And standing in a casino for eight hours will burn about 1,402 calories. Inventions & Discoveries Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters are invented by women. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. In 1932. Engineer, Harry Jennings, built the first folding, tubular steel wheelchair. The chair was built for a paraplegic friend of Jennings called Herbert Everest. Together they founded Everest & Jennings, a company that monopolised the wheelchair market for many years. Otto Frederick Rohwedder is generally credited with inventing the first automatic bread slicer in 1928. Language & Literature Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. E is the most frequently used letter in the English. Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E". Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 1876. Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter. The word Set has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word Run runs a distant second, with 396. The dot over the i or j is called a tittle. The word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for its first letter. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Mandarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by 1.07 billion people, followed by English, spoken by 514 million. Papua New Guinea have the greatest number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not dialects. The world's first university was established in Taxila (comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa) Pakistan in 700 BC. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today. Letters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 (Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred) Letters 'a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 (Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand) Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 (Letter 'b' only comes for the first time in Billion) Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting

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