Friday, May 31, 2013

Factu… Factu….Factu…. Part 2

  • 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.
  • Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  • 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.
  • The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

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