2. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means "twins".
3. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
4. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.
5. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
6. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to earth.
7. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.
8. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.
9. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
10 In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
11. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
12. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
13. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday." They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
14. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.
15. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
16. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
17. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
18. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
19. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
20. After reading this fact you will realize that the the brain doesn't recognize a second 'the'.
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