1 |
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long
words. |
2 |
A hippopotamus can run faster
than a man. |
3 | All
the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus.
It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. |
4 | Almost
is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical
order. |
5 | Hummingbirds
are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
|
6 |
A zebra is white with black stripes. |
7 | The
whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
|
8 |
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire. |
9 |
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of
a second. It is defined as one tick of a computer's clock, according to dictionary.com. |
10 | The
names of the continents all end with the same letter
with which they start. |
| | (Source:
DavesDaily.com) 17th February 2006 |
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