1."Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, o r u 2.

The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters. 3.The ZIP in Zip-code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan." 4.The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. 5. The anti-malarial drug quinine is taken from the bark of the Andean cinchona tree. 6.Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce th eir eggs. 7.The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue. 8. When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so t hat other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source. 9.The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple. 10.A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a m oving vessel. 11. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 12.A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure. 13. At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world. 14.Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. S o a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! 15.The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressu re of the wind. 16.The Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582 AD, and was ado pted by Great Britain and the English colonies in 1752. 17.The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier 18.The aircraft was invented by the Wright brothers in USA but the first Airmail to fly in the world was flown in India. This is the story of the First Airmail.It was a fine morning at Allahabad on the 18th of February, 1911. Henri Pequet took off with a wrist watc h on his right hand and an altimeter fixed to his left knee. The biplane flew to Naini at 40 m ph at an altitude of 130 feet. He landed at Naini, 8 Km from Allahabad, to be greeted by the lone postmaster. Pequet flew back. The whole journey lasted 27 minutes.