Mindboggling Facts...

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  • Los Angeles's full name "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A
  • 15% of employees were caught in a lie directly in the Hworkplace.
  • The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
  • Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
  • Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan,  Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars jointly.
  • Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
  • Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
  • Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  • The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
  • TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  • It costs more to buy a new car today in the US than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from new world.
  • Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so run zig zag if they chase you..
  • There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  • "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
  • Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it.
  • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.Your ribs move about 5 million times a year,as you breathe.
  • Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
  • Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

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