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Interesting facts
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
• You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
• People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
• The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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