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Amazing Facts!
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| Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person’s left hand does 56 per cent of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial at the back of the $5 bill. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Porciuncula” and it can be abbreviated to 3.63 per cent of its size: “LA” Mohammed Mansoor Iqbal |
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