Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Some common unknown facts....

  • .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.
  • There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  • 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. 
  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
  • 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 a 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.
  • Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey.
  • 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.
  • 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 
  • Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different  
  •  And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow .....

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