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Saturday, 11 April 2009

Amazing Facts

Ø Coca-Cola was originally green.

Ø The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Ø The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.

Ø The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Ø TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Ø Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

Ø You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Ø It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Ø People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

Ø It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Ø The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Ø 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.

Ø 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.

Ø If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

Ø If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

Ø If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.

Ø What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

Ø A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Ø A snail can sleep for three years.

Ø All polar bears are left handed.

Ø American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Ø Butterflies taste with their feet.

Ø Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Ø In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Ø On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ø Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Ø The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Ø The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Ø The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Ø Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Ø Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Ø The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Ø 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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