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"Floccinaucinihilipilification," which means "the act of estimating as worthless," is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long. You can't kill yourself by holding your breathe. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language. A duck's quack never echoes, and no one knows why. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321. If you screamed for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades-King David, clubs-Alexander the Great, hearts-Charlemagne, diamonds-Julius Caesar. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Last update on this page: 9-30-02