Fun facts & challenges
Bet you didn't know.....
- It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A shrimp's heart is in its head.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.
- The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language (can you say it?)
CHALLENGE ![]()
Can you write your own tongue twister and challenge your friends to say it?