1. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
2. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words
without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in,
rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
3. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
4. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
5. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
6. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry
can be dribbled like a basketball.
7. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
8. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left
hand.
9. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the
following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling
into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
10. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.
11. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does
arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
12. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for
that reason.
13. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
14. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
15. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the
engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and
figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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