Interesting Facts and Articles...: Things you probably never need to know, but fascinating.. (a fwd)

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Things you probably never need to know, but fascinating.. (a fwd)

*things you probably never need to know, but fascinating **
anyway

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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3.The name of all the continents end with the same letter
that they start with.
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4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.
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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the
sky.
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12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to
be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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13. 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.
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14. 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.

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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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16. 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 a all four legs on the ground, the person
died of natural causes.
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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield
wipers and laser printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.
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18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
What is this?

Ans. - Honey
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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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20. A snail can sleep for three year s.
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21. All polar bears are left handed.
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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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24.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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25.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
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26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and
'bump'.
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28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the
left hand.
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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
could have over million descendants.
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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
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37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick
their elbow *

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