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The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

Which instrument is played by more people world wide, guitar or violin


sorry I don't know


but I kind of think the guitar is

They reckon Douglas Barder was an World War 2 spitfire ace because he had no legs. Therefore when he put the aeroplane in a high speed bank he did not black out. Meaning he stayed in control of the aeroplane which enabled him to get behind the Germans faster.

The blood, which in a normal full bodied spitfire pilot doing the same manoeuvre would rush to there legs causing a black out. This meant that they lost control of the plane for a few seconds which enabled the Germans to get out of the way as the German fighters where no match for the manoeuvrability of the spitfire.

Of course our man Douglas had no legs so the blood had no where to go meaning he stayed awake.

Never in the history of conflict as so much been owed by so many to so few.

Elephants are the only animal on the earth with 4 knees.

Elephants are also the only animals that can't jump.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, had musophobia, which is the fear of mice.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.

The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind.

The Red Baron's real name was Manfred Von Richtofen.

Richard Pavelle`s solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.

Think I am off to go get a life now!

Michael Schumacher is a cheat. Always was and always will be!!
Interesting and Factually correct I think you will find!!

Stewardesses is the longest word that is formally typed with only the left hand (bet you check your keyboard after reading this!!! )

What a great thread! I do hope that these facts are not residing in your head and you have actually had to look them up!

Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

I didn't look mine up I know I am SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A shrimps heart is in it's head.

why do baseball players grow so tall ?

Why do we sneeze ?

Sneezing is a way that your body gets rid of bad things that are in your nose. These things might be bacteria, germs, and other things. You also sneeze when you smell pepper because your body does not like pepper!

When you suddenly you see a bright light like the sun or a light bulb then you feel like you are going to sneeze. Most people feel like you do when you see the light. Actually 1 out of 3 people sneeze when they see the bright light. Those people are "Photic Sneezers." Photic really is another word for light. Photic sneezing is something that you get from one of your parents because it is something that runs in one side of your family.

But did you know, if your nose run's, and your feet smell, you are built upside down.

You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

The guitar was invented in Andalucia, originating from Arab lutes and in about the 1790s a sixth string was added.