interesting facts

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The faster kangaroos hop, the less energy they use.

 

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Bubble gum contains rubber.
Giraffes have black tongues.

 

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The only bird that can fly backwards is the Humming Bird.

 

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Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

 

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends with "mt"

 

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The longest place-name still in use is “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamatea- turipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu”, a New Zealand hill.

 

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Cows -- like all mammals -- make milk to feed their own babies -- not humans.

 

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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

 

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The original owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

 

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It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

 

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Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

 

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A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why!

 

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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic".

 

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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

 

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The world’s quickest spider is capable of covering 33 times its own body length per second.

 

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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

 

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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

 

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Sunil Gavaskar of India has hit more sixes in tests than in one day internationals. He has hit 25 sixes in tests and 21 in ODI’s.

 

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The two mode of dimissals, which never witnessed by ODI’s are “timed out” and “hitting the ball twice”.

 

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A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.