20 Unknown & Amazing Facts

1. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
2. The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
3. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
4. Ants never sleep!
5. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
6. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
7. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
8. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
9. Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years.
10. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
11. Butterflies taste with their feet.
12. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
13. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
14. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
15. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
17. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
18. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
19. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
20. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.