AMAZING FACTS - (05)

1. Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
2.  Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
3. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
4. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
5.  The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
6. All Polar bears are left-handed.
7. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
8. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
9. Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.
10. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
11. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
12. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
13. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
14. Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
15. The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.
16.  Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
17. The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
18. Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
19. Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.
20. US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.