Let's post trivias again for enchancing our general knowledge.
Did you know that....
...Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2. He grew up to speak more than 20 languages, including Latin, Greek, German, French, and Chinese. What were his last words? "Consummatum est!" ("It is done!")
...The popular toy, the yoyo, was invented by 16th century hunters in the Philippines
...The antibiotic erythromycin — used to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections, such as respiratory tract infections, middle ear infections, and skin infections — was created by Filipino scientist Abelardo Aguilar, and has earned American drug giant Eli Lilly billions of dollars. Neither Aguilar nor the Philippine government received royalties.
... A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.
... All polar bears are left-handed.
... An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
... An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
... An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
... An Octopus has 3 hearts!
... A whale's penis is called a dork.
. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A Dragon fly has 28,000 EYES!!!
The popular Christmas song "Jingle Bells" was composed in 1857 by James Pierpont, and was originally called "One Horse Open Sleigh."
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
.. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
8. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
The word " set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
- 13 laughs is the average number of laughs per person each day!
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times each day!
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- Your ribs move about 5 million times each year as you breathe!
- Your feet contain more than 25% of the bones in your body!
- The body changes as it grows. On an average, at the age of 11, girls begin to change into women, and at 13, boys into men. Most people are fully grown by the age of 20, but everyone grows at slightly different rates.
Subject: DID YOU KNOW THAT...?? 
Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:38 pm
