Sunday, April 12, 2009

Must Know!

Some interesting facts!

* Coca-Cola was originally green.

* It is impossible to lick your elbow.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row! of the keyboard.

* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.

* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.

* If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a
sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.

* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle

* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

* A snail can sleep for three years.

* All polar bears are left handed.

* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.

* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.

* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

* Most lipstick contains fish scales.

* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

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