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Curious GK!!!

• 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.


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



• Ants don't sleep.

• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.


• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.


• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.



• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.


• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."


• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.


• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.


• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.


• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.


• Snakes are immune to their own poison.

• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).




• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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

• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

• A shrimp's heart is in their head.

• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.


• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

• The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.

• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.

• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

• Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.

• There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.

• Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

• Cat's urine glows under a black light.


• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.


• It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.




• Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.

• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.

• Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.


• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.


• Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.


• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.


• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.



• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.


• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.


• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.




• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.


• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

• Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.


• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.


• Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.


• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.


• To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.


• 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.


• Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.




• The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

• Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

• The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

• Ants can live up to 16 years.

• In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.

• The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.

• Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

• Coca-Cola was originally green.

• 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.

• It is impossible to lick your elbow.




• 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 great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Gyne versus Mechanic

A Gynecologist had become fed up with malpractice insurance and was about to
loose his license to practice. So he signed up for an auto mechanic career
in a IIT technical school. The gynecologist outsmarted other knucklehead
mechanic colleagues and finally appeared for practical test to fix the engine in
the shop. He was afraid he will be beaten in this test by his blue-collar
comrades.

Surprisingly, he scored 150% for a limit of 100% so he humbly questioned
the examiner for his sanity.

The examiner explained, "My learned friend, in the test, you tore the
engine apart perfectly, for which I gave you full 50% of the total credit. Then
you put the engine back together again as perfectly which was also worth 50%
of the total 100% mark."

But I must admit "I gave you an extra 50% because you did all of it
through that damn muffler hole."

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N/Veg Jokes

Bill Clinton started jogging near his new home in Chappaqua. But on each
run, he happened to jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner,
day after day. With some apprehension he would brace himself as he
approached her for what was most certainly to follow.

"Fifty dollars!" she would shout from the curb.

"No. Five dollars!" fired back Clinton.

This ritual between Bill and the hooker continued for days.

He'd run by and she'd yell, "Fifty dollars!"

And he'd yell back, "Five dollars!"

One day however, Hillary decided that she wanted to accompany her husband on
his jog. As the jogging couple neared the problematic street corner, Bill
realized the "pro" would bark her $50 offer and Hillary would wonder what
he'd really been doing on all his past outings. He realized he should have a
darn good explanation for the junior Senator.

As they jogged into the turn that would take them past the corner, Bill
became even more apprehensive than usual.

Sure enough, there was the hooker. Bill tried to avoid the prostitute's eyes
as she watched the pair jog past.

Then, from the sidewalk, the hooker yelled, "See what you get for five
bucks?"

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George went to his friend's house and asked to be put up for the night
because he had a fight with his wife.

"What happened?" the friend asked.

"When I got home tonight I was really beat, tired as a dog. So when she
asked me for fifty bucks for a new dress, I guess I must have been half
asleep or something, because I said, 'All right, but let's finish the
dictation first.'"

FOCUS on PROBLEMS Vis-a-Vis FOCUS on SOLUTIONS

Case 1 :

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million.


They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.


And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.


Case 2 :


One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty.


Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly! Line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty.


Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.


Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so.


But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution.


He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line.
He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral

Always look for simple solutions.

Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems.

Always Focus on solutions & not on problems.


More Jokes:

Politician's Sandwich

On the Listening Tour, a prominent politician was pleased and proud that the local sandwich shop in a town he was visiting had named a sandwich after him.

He was somewhat less pleased after he found out what was in it.

"Mostly baloney," said the proprietor.
Bachelor Cooking

Two confirmed bachelors sat talking. Their conversation drifted from politics to cooking.

"I got a cookbook once," said the first, "but I could never do anything with it."

"Too much fancy cooking in it, eh?" asked the second.

"You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way - Take a clean dish and...."

Insurance Claim

A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case of rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against .... get this .... fire.

Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars, and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company.

In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars in "a series of small fires."

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion.

The man sued ... and won!!

In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that since the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable, and also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," it was obligated to compensate the insured for his loss.

Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires."

After the man cashed his check, however, the insurance company had him arrested... on 24 counts of arson!

With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to 24 consecutive one year terms.


For The Kids...

How do you stop a werewolf chasing you?
Throw a stick and say fetch!

How do you know if two werewolves have been in the fridge?
Two pairs of paw prints in the butter!

What's Dracula's favourite coffee?
Decoffinated!

What do you get if you cross a werewolf and a frog?
A creature that can bite you from the other side of the road!

What do you get if you cross Dracula with Sir Lancelot?
A bite in shining armour!

What does it mean if you find a werewolf in the fridge in the morning?
You had some party the night before!


Canine Complex

A man walked into the office of an eminent psychiatrist and sat down to explain his problem.

"Doctor, doctor! I've got this problem," the man said. "I keep hallucinating that I'm a dog. It's crazy. I don't know what to do!"

"A common canine complex," said the doctor soothingly. "Relax. Come here and lie down on the couch."

"Oh no, Doctor," the man said nervously, "I'm not allowed up on the furniture."


How to Handle Teens

A wise old gentleman retired and purchased a modest home near a junior high school. He spent the first few weeks of his retirement in peace and contentment. Then a new school year began.

The very next afternoon three young boys, full of youthful, after-school enthusiasm, came down his street, beating merrily on every trash can they encountered. The crashing percussion continued day after day, until finally the wise old man decided it was time to take some action.

The next afternoon, he walked out to meet the young percussionists as they banged their way down the street. Stopping them, he said, "You kids are a lot of fun. I like to see you express your exuberance like that. In fact, I used to do the same thing when I was your age. Will you do me a favor? I'll give you each a dollar if you'll promise to come around every day and do your thing."

The kids were elated and continued to do a bang-up job on the trash cans. After a few days, the old-timer greeted the kids again, but this time he had a sad smile on his face. "This recession's really putting a big dent in my income," he told them. "From now on, I'll only be able to pay you 50 cents to beat on the cans." The noisemakers were obviously displeased, but they did accept his offer and continued their afternoon ruckus. A few days later, the wily retiree approached them again as they drummed their way down the street.

"Look," he said, "I haven't received my Social Security check yet, so I'm not going to be able to give you more than 25 cents. Will that be okay?" "A lousy quarter?" the drum leader exclaimed. "If you think we're going to waste our time, beating these cans around for a quarter, you're nuts! No way, mister. We quit!" And the old man enjoyed peace.


For The Kids...

How do fireflies start a race?
Ready steady glow!

If there are 5 flies in the kitchen how do you know which one is the American Football player?
The one in the sugar bowl!

How do you keep flies out of the kitchen?
Put a pile of manure in the living room!

What did one firefly say to the other?
Got to glow now!

What goes "snap, crackle and pop"?
A firefly with a short circuit!

Which fly makes films?
Stephen Speilbug!