The things you may don’t know

Posted by: Munna on: October 19, 2008

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* Coca-Cola was originally green.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

* The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

* 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.

* 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 great king from History.
“Spades” – King David;
“Clubs” – Alexander the Great;
“Hearts” – Charlemagne;
“Diamonds” – Julius Caesar.

* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

* If a statue of a warrior 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.

* Honey – This is the only food that doesn’t spoil.

* 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.