Facts you probably never knew !!!!!!!

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  • If you add half a cup of lemon juice to your laundry, it brightens the whites.

  • Pears when stored in a low oxygen environment may develop black specks.
  •  A jiffy is actually a unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

  •  Leaving diluted lime juice in a teapot overnight cleans out the brown stains.

  •     Ketchup was once used as medicine in the 1830s.
  • The Oscars were once made out of wood because metal was scarce during World War2.
  • It takes about £4000 to raise a dog to age 11(some people’s life savings).
  •  Guinness Book of Records holds the record as the most stolen book from public libraries.
  •  The longest word in English with its entire letters in alphabetical order is ALMOST.
  • The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
Culled from the web by Magnanimous Ben

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