Best fact of the day! - 5)The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

19/8/2014-

1) Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

2)The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

3)Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.

4) Butterflies taste with their feet.

5)The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.animated gif

15/8/2014-

 1)The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

2) The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.

3) In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!

4) Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.

5)If you weighed all the electrons used to store the information on the internet, it would weight less than a chicken’s egg.animated gif

14/8/2014-

1)Ants never sleep!

2) Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”

3)TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

4)You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.   animated gif

5)Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.