Did you know?

• "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.