Facts To Be Known
Saturday, 10. March 2007, 11:23:48
1.. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2.. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3.. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they
start with.
4.. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5.. There are two credit cards for every person in the
United States.
6.. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
7.. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
8.. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
9.. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10.. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
11.. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up
into the sky.
12.. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is
said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
13.. 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.
14.. Each kin g in a deck of playing cards represents
great king from history.Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the
Great, Hearts -Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
15.. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16.. 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 frontleg 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.
17.. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented
by women.
18.. Question - This is the only food that doesn't
spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
19.. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20.. A snail can sleep for three years.
21.. All polar bears are left handed.
22.. Butterflies taste with their feet.
23.. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
24.. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
25.. On average, people fear spiders more than they do
death.
26.. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and
'bump'.
27.. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only
the left hand.
28.. The ant always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
29.. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
30.. The human heart creates enough pressure when it
pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
31.. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two
rats could have over million descendants.
32.. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
33.. The cigarette lighter was invented before the
match.
34.. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
35.. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
different
WIDGETIZE
dantesoft # 14. March 2007, 21:15
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Anonymous # 19. January 2008, 20:08
these were fine
Anonymous # 4. March 2008, 06:13
Very good collections.