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Letters
'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' don't appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting

Book Without Letter "e" :

GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a
single word with 'e' in it

Word without Vowel:

Rhythm

Sky

Fry

Cry

Human Brain:

Organ of body which has no sensation when cut.

Crocodile :

Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating.

No:of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS :

They are
** **B* Bee *
** **C* Sea*
** **G** * Zee*
** ** I* Eye *
** ** Q* Queue*
** ** R* Are *
** ** S* Yes *
** **T* Tea* **
** ** U* You *
** ** Y* Why

Fascinating Animals, Birds, Trees :

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp
teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

What are They :

1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say DADDY':
LIPS

2) What goes up & never comes down:
AGE

3) Patches over patches but no stitches:
CABBAGE

4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you:
FUTURE

5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:
ROAD

6) You can never wet it:
SHADOW

7) What belongs to You, but used by your friends more often you do:

YOUR NAME

In 24 Hours Average Human:

1) HEART
beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS
respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD
flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS
grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR
grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER
(including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD
.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR
.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE
.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT
.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS
.

• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why

• 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

• The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

• A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

• The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

• "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

• Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

• Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

• When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

• There are more chickens than people in the world.

• It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

• The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

• The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "sub c ont in ent al".

• There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.