1) Longest English Word:
Praetertranssubstantiationalistically has 37 letters.
2) Book Without Letter "e":
GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a
single word with 'e' in it
3) Word without Vowel:
Rhythm
Sky
Fry
Cry
4) Human Brain:
Organ of body which has no sensation when cut.
5) Crocodile:
Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.
6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS:
They are
** **B* Bee *
** **C* Sea*
** **G** * Zee*
** ** I* Eye *
** ** Q* Queue*
** ** R* Are *
** ** S* Yes *
** **T* Tea* **
** ** U* You *
** ** Y* Why
Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees:
1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp
teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
What are They :
1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY':
Ans:LIPS
2) What goes up & never comes down:
Ans:AGE
3) Patches over patches but no stitches:
Ans:CABBAGE
4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:
Ans:FUTURE
5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves?
Ans:ROAD
6) You can never wet it:
Ans: SHADOW
7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do:
Ans:YOUR NAME
In 24 Hours Average Human:
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
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| u r wrong! The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Here goes some more ................... 1. Ants don't sleep. 2. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. 3. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat. 4. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US. 5. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. 6. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. 7. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs." 8. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. 9. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel. 10. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length. 11. A baby bat is called a pup. 12. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog. 13. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time. 14. It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100. 15. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. 16. The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939. 17. Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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