Friday, November 24, 2006

Amazing 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.

# 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 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

# And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!!!!

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