Did You Know ???

The fact that.....

Human Body

• Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue is different
• 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
• 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
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps to squirt blood 30 feet
• Wearing headphones for just over an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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Words

• The name of the entire continents end with the same letter that they start with

• The most common name in the world is 'Mohammed'
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on one row of the keyboard
• STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand
• Shakespeare invented the words ‘ assassination’ and ‘bump’
• The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language

General

• What is the only food that doesn’t spoil ? – Answer – Honey
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in the first-class
• 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 a battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in a battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Inventions

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match

Animals

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
• A snail can sleep for three years
• All polar bears are left handed
• 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
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
• An ant always fall over on its right side when intoxicated
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendents