The word 'love' used for scoring in tennis is a corruption of the French word 'l'oeuf' which was French slang for zero because the symbol looked like an egg. Five cubes each bearing six letters would have to be arranged 620,448,401,735,259,439,369,000 times in order to achieve every possible combination. The Boya bird, which is found in the Philippines, weaves fireflies into its nest causing it to glow in the dark. There is a waterfall near Honolulu, which 'falls' upwards. Man's threepound brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the Universe. A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical powers. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electric shock. A zebra's stripes are as individual as human fingerprints. No two zebras are striped alike. A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one born on December 17, 1952 and the other on February 10, 1953. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. Israel is the only country in the world, which has compulsory military service for women. It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time. One of the candidates who failed at his first attempt to pass the entrance examinations for the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich, was a young man named Albert Einstein. Abraham Lincoln was the first US President to be assassinated. An elephant can carry 2 gallons of water in its trunk. The temperature of the heat wave that is generated by the re-entry of a space capsule into the earth's atmosphere is the same as the temperature on the surface of the sun, about 6,000ºC. The only flying mammals are bats. Only 2,000 tigers roam wild in India today as compared to 40,000 at the turn of the century. Amongst the Arabs there are nearly 1,000 different words for a camel. The nail on our middle finger grows fastest. The nail on the thumb grows slowest. Bungalows are named after the Hindi word 'bangla' which means 'belonging to Bengal'. An albatross can fly all day and not flap its wings once.
A man and woman in Mexico City were engaged for 67 years and finally married at the age of 82.
The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, contains all the letters of the alphabet.