Sunday, November 19, 2006

Interesting Facts




1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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2. The most common name in the world is Mohammad.
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3.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
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4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your
heart stops for a millisecond.
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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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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.
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14. 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.
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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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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 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.
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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
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18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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20. A snail can sleep for three years.
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21. All polar bears are left handed.
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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over
million descendants.
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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
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37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their
elbow.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Be careful with this kind of information.
As people tend to believe every statement within.

I magine, if you just put one wrong statement somewhere there, you will be easily disguised :-)
and thinking that .. that additional statement is correct/fact .... and you take it for granted !!