- "Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- "Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.
- "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
- "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
- "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
- "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
- The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
- "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
- "THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between
- "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
- "Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
- "Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
- "Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
- 1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
- 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day
- 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
- 111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
- 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
- 259200 people die every day.
- 80% of animals on earth are insects.
- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A bat is the only mammal that flies.
- A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
- A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't..
- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
- A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
- A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
- A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
- A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
- A horse can sleep standing up.
- A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
