The sentence,”The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, contains all the letters of the alphabet.
- At an altitude of 7,620 metres a pilot can see for a distance of 312 kilometres.
- A female mosquito can produce 150,000,000 offsprings in one year.
-Taiwan is the largest exporter of mushrooms in the world.
-Rain contains Vitamin B12.
-The Mona Lisa was first bought by Francis I King of France, who used to decorate his bathroom.
-The largest eggs are laid by sharks.
-There are 3,000 sweat glands to every square inch of skin in the palms of our hands.
-The penguin, an Antarctic bird, can no longer fly, but it can move through water faster than a submarine.
-Sodium burns fiercely when placed in water but can be stored quite safely in paraffin.
-Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world.
-Banana oil does not come from bananas, it is a chemical distillate obtained from coal.
-There are now over 5,000 different languages and dialects spoken in the world, with 845 of these spoken in India alone.
-The thirteenth day of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week.
-The hair spring of a watch was originally a pig’s hair.
-Termites can produce substances in their bodies that can rust metal, disintegrate glass and burn through lead.
-There is no soda in soda water.
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