Saturday, October 01, 2005

Amazing facts

-. Coca-Cola was originally green.
-. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
-. 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.
-. 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 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 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 laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
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Honey 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'.
-. 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.
-. 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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