DYK #7: English is a phunny language...

1. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 
2. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle or superscript dot. 
3. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
4. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility." 
5. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
6. The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am." 
7. The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm". 
8. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. 
9. The word "triskaidekaphobia" means "fear of Friday the 13th". It also means "superstition about the number thirteen" in general. 
10. A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".

DYK #6: Jaws...

Though not as proficient as shown in movies, this water predator is known to have a keen sense for the red liquid that courses our veins. Parts per million (a.k.a ppm) is a commonly used unit of measurement. This is equivalent to one drop of water diluted into 50 liters

They have excellent hearing in the low frequencies and can pick out the sound of something thrashing around in the water well over 1,000 feet away. They're also outfitted with sensory cavities called the ampullae of Lorenzini, which register the faint electrical fields generated by living bodies. And then there's the shark's sense of smell, which though not quite as phenomenal as was once believed (you used to see a stat claiming that 70 percent of a shark's brain was devoted to olfaction, which seems to have been a real overstatement) is still plenty acute: sharks can detect some chemicals at concentrations of around one part per 25 million, and experts claim they've seen sharks go nuts over a single drop of blood in a 2,000-gallon tank.

Source: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2781/shark-youre-whats-for-dinner

More facts on sharks senses:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/anatomy/Senses.shtml

How sharks work:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/marine-life/shark3.htm

DYK #5: Naps with power!

A power nap is a short sleep which terminates before the occurrence of deep sleep or slow-wave sleep (SWS), intended to quickly revitalize the subject.

It helps improve concentration, productivity and helps feel less tired.

How to take a power nap:
http://www.wikihow.com/Power-Nap

DYK #4: The criminal Koala

Even though humans are known to be known closely related to chimps, gorillas and monkeys, koala bears have identical fingerprints to the former.

It's not just that human fingerprints are roughly similar to koalas - they really are identical. A trained expert would have trouble telling human and koala fingerprints apart, even using a microscope. You can see a comparison of koala and human fingerprints on the left. While the two look quite similar in the larger view, it's under the even higher resolution of an electron microscope that they really look pretty much indistinguishable.

Source: http://io9.com/5798400/koalas-have-exactly-the-same-fingerprints-as-humans

Verification: http://naturalscience.com/ns/articles/01-04/ns_hll.html

DYK #3: Empire state building - Windows

The Empire State Building was the first building to have more than 100 floors. It has 6500 windows and 73 elevators.

DYK #2: Empire State Building - wires

That translates to around 2133.6 Kilometers !
For rough estimate, the approximate distance between:

• Mumbai - Delhi is 1,394.5 km
• New York - Miami is 2,064.1 km

DYK #1: Questions on Donald Duck's character

Many popular fact posting pages claim that Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he didn't wear trousers and cavorted with an unmarried female duck!

This is an urban legend. It was sparked up by an incident in 1977, when Helsinki councilman Markku Holopainen proposed discontinuing the use of city funds for the purchase of Aku Ankka (a.k.a Donald Duck) comics for youth centers, as a reaction to financial difficulties. The following year, as Holopainen was running for a Parliament seat, his opponents then called him "the man who banned Donald Duck from Helsinki".

A funny thing worth noting is that though Donald (or Aku) doesn't wear pants, he requires a towel when coming out of the shower

For more refer:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aku_Ankka
2. http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.asp

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