Did You Know?
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
The Swiss flag is square.
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Camel's milk does not curdle.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
All porcupines float in water.
Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.
Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
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