FACTS THAT THRILL THE MIND

• “One thousand” contains the letter A but none of the words from “one” to “nine hundred and ninety nine” have an A.

• “Forty” is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. “One” is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

• If you take any number between 1 and 9, and multiply it by 9, the sum of the resulting digits will always be 9. (Example 7x9=63; 6+3=9).

• The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value. Amazing!

• The word “therein” contains 13 words spelt using consecutive letters – the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein and herein.

• It takes 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the Sun to the Earth! This means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.

• The use of excess electricity today is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas.

• Amazing! The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”!

• It is believed that no piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

• GADFY, written by Earnest Wright in 1939, is a 50,000+ word book, which does not contain a single word with ‘e’ in it.