• 1 TO 100 – There is no English letter 'A'
• If a statue of a person on a horse has:
Both front legs in the air - the person died in battle
One front leg in the air - the person died as a result of wounds
• A paper piece can't be folded more than 7 times.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
• The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
• Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
• Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• Butterflies taste using their feet.
• Starfish don’t have brain.
• Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump.
• Ants don't sleep.
• A dolphin's hearing is so accurate that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.
• Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
• No two zebras have the same markings.
• According to experts, whale songs rhyme.
• The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
• Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
• The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• India invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented zero.
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
• Did you know fishes cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?
• The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
• No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
• If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
• Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities.
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