Friday, July 28, 2006

Did You Know????

* 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 .


* 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 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 .


* Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey


* 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.