Fantastic Facts

1. The left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain while the right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain.
2. You burn more calories eating celery than it contains.
3. A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.
4. Giraffes not only have long necks, they also have enormous tongues, which can be 18 inches long.
5. Approximately 80-90% of what we perceive as “taste” actually is due to our sense of smell.
6. Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.
7. Like fingerprints, every person’s tongue print is different.
8. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback
9. Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
10. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
11. Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
12. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. That is why it is a good  copy for typing practice.
13. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
14. A Coffee bean is not actually a bean, rather it is a seed.
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =  =12345678987654321

~Compiled by SD Network.