The Dhira

Fun and trivia

Istanbul is the only city in the world that is located on two continents.
The French king, Louis XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep on his own bed no matter where he travelled.
The Sunday edition of the New York Times for 14 September 1987 contained 1612 pages and weighed 5.4kg.
By the time you finish reading this sentence 50000 of the cells in your body will die and will be replaced by new cells!!
Your sneezes can travel at 160 km/h-as fast as train!!
Ice cream is a Chinese dish.
Cows can sleep standing but they can only dream while lying down.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
All porcupines float in water.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language, it is an imperative sentence.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses, it's plural.