Saturday, May 31, 2008

Njoy!!!!!!

1) The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
2) There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
3) Coca-Cola was originally green.
4) The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina)
5) The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
6) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
7) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
8) In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
9) There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
10) If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

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