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elephants
  • Elephants remain pregnant for 2 years, and then cannot become pregnant again for another 2 years afterwards because the female will not ovulate
  • Elephants can’t jump
  • Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. (Do you drink milk?)
  • An elephant can smell water three miles away
  • An elephant has 4 knees
  • Elephants were considered the enemies of dragons
  • African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with

Elvis
  • Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died. Elvis’ middle name Aaron is in his honour
  • In 1971, Elvis was appointed an honourary FBI agent by Nixon before Nixon’s resignation.Thanx Spike

Emails
  • E-mails started in 1971. Ray Tomlinson is it’s DADDY!! and the first e-mail was sent WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE
  • 294 billion emails are sent every day

Empire state building
  • There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. Thanx Laine S.

emu
  • Emus cannot walk backwards.

England, UK
  • During the 1600′s, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old
  • In Britain, failed suicidees were hanged in the 19th century. (I won’t even comment on this one)

English
  • India has the most English speakers in the world
  • It is a fact that there are 5 times more people learning English in China than there are people in England
  • Of the worlds 2700+ languages, English contains the most vocabulary
  • More than 75% of the world’s letters and cables are written in English
  • 8 out of 10 of the world’s computers store data in English (not technically)
  • It is an amazing fact that English is the world’s most widespread language, spoken by over 1 billion people

Enigma code machine
  • Despite what Hollywood claims in the film U-571, the Germans’ wartime Enigma code machine was actually captured by the British 6 months before the USA joined World War 2
  • The first time the Allies saw the secret German Enigma machine wasn’t by stealing it. They actually bought it outright in the German open market in 1927.
  • It would take 100 machines working around the clock 5.8 years in order to crack the enigma code.

Everest, Mount
  • Everest is not the tallest mountain. Mauna Kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater! Everest is only 8848m
  • Mount Everest which was named by Colonel Waugh was innitially named Gahoorishanke (Presented before the Academy of Sciences in Paris 1857)


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