Saturday 14 May 2011

Interesting Unknown Facts

Here are some unknown facts I am going to tell you:
1. Coca-Cola, your favorite soft-drink was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammad.
3. The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with.
4. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
7. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9. The longest muscle in the body is the tongue.
10. People say "Bless You" when you sneeze because when you sneeze , your heart stops for a milisecond.
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 could rupture a blood vessel in the head or neck & die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
i) Spades - King David
ii) Clubs - Alexander The Great
iii) Hearts - Charlemagne
iv) Diamonds - Julius Caesar
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. i) If a statue of a person in a park on a horse has both front legs in air, the person died in a battle.
ii) If the horse has one front leg up in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
iii) If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died due to natural causes.
17. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers & laser printers have in common?
Ans.- They were all invented by women.
18. 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. American Airlines saved $40000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27. Shakespeare invented the words 'Assasination' & 'Bump'.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29. The ant always falls on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that  in 18 months, two rats could have over 2 million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different as well as your ear print.
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

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