AMAZING FACTS - two (02)

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   1. Butterflies taste with their feet.
   2.  A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for (1/100)th of a second
   3.  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
   4.  Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
   5.  Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
   6.  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
   7.  Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
   8. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
   9. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
   10. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
   11.   It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
   12.  Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
   13.  It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
   14.  The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
   15. The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
   16. Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
   17. The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different colour, and sometimes even be curly or straight.
   18. The markings that are found on dice are called "pips."
   19. 111,111,111x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678
   20.   If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.