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Alphabet did you knows

  • Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
  • Did you know the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
  • Did you know the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
  • Did you know if you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same
  • Did you know the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
  • Did you know the word 'rhythm' is the longest word without a vowel
  • Did you know the letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1)
  • Did you know 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
  • Did you know the Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters

 English language did you knows

  • Did you know the most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
  • Did you know the least used letter in the alphabet is Q
  • Did you know dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
  • Did you know the first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
  • Did you know there are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
  • Did you know the oldest word in the English language is 'town'
  • Did you know 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
  • Did you know the word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
  • Did you know the dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle
  • Did you know the past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'
  • Did you know the word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
  • Did you know The first English dictionary was written in 1755
  • Did you know the word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box
  • Did you know 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e
  • Did you know the longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'
  • Did you know all pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin
  • Did you know the expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)
  • Did you know the word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
  • Did you know the most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'

 Animal did you knows

  • Did you know a bear has 42 teeth
  • Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
  • Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales
  • Did you know rabbits like licorice
  • Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
  • Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
  • Did you know reindeer like bananas
  • Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
  • Did you know birds need gravity to swallow
  • Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
  • Did you know goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
  • Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
  • Did you know macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
  • Did you know spiders are arachnids and not insects
  • Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
  • Did you know all insects have 6 legs
  • Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
  • Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
  • Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
  • Did you know camel's milk doesn't curdle

  Miscellaneous

  • Did you know 11% of people are left handed
  • Did you know August has the highest percentage of births
  • Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
  • Did you know the average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
  • Did you know most lipsticks contain fish scales
  • Did you know no two corn flakes look the same
  • Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
  • Did you know 8% of people have an extra rib
  • Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
  • Did you know Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
  • Did you know the Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
  • Did you know 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
  • Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
  • Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
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