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(No user rating) (from - 31 July 2009)Or that a flea can jump 200 time its own height? Strange and fascinating facts......
In England middle names were once illegalHalley's Comet takes seventy-six years to travel once around the sun
Humming-birds are the only birds that are able to fly backwards.
Mozart was only five years old when he wrote the music of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
There are more insects in the world than all the other animals added together.
Dogs sweat through their paws.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It has an area of 70,000,000 square miles (181,000,000 square km).
The Bridge of Sighs is in Venice and connects the Doge's Palace with the old state prisons. Its name symbolizes the sadness of the prisoners crossing the bridge on their way to prison.
The word "the" is the most commonly used word in the English language.
The fear of the number thirteen is known as triskaidekaphobia.
After the 1745 rebellion, the British Government made it illegal for Scotsmen to wear tartan kilts. The law continued until 1832.
The card game called Bridge was invented in Turkey.
A human blinks their eyes twenty-five time a minute.
Turkish baths were invented by the Romans.
Rice paper is not made from rice.
Gorillas are unable to swim.
The color purple was the sign of high rank in ancient Rome.
A fly's taste buds are in its feet.
Penguins are able to leap over six feet into the air.
Avocado pears are the most fattening fruit.
Less than half of the London Underground is actually underground.
A cat has four rows of whiskers.
Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.
The term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937.
The paperclip was invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler.
The first colour photograph was made in 1861 by James Maxwell. He photographed a tartan ribbon.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
The Beatles song 'Martha My Dear' was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.
Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.
Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
Nessie, the Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Acts of Scotland.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé.
Maria Ann Smith introduced the Granny Smith apple in 1838.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
The planet Venus spins from east to west. Earth and the other planets spin from west to east.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is 88,000 miles (142,000km) wide.
Technically, the bumble bee is too heavy to fly.
A large blue whale eats three tons of food every day.
You use 54 muscles every time that you take a step forward.
