amazing facts

[sweetoo]

(amazing) Don't miss the last one!



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.

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 a 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

And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

[geno]

gosh!! I did !!!

[Raghu]

hey this cool

[Cindy]

ME TOO!!!!!

This i am gonna forward to all my contacts...good one Seeto!

[Surya]

////Most lipstick contains fish scales.////
Now all the vegetarian women I know are going to flip out!!

Nice thread.

[blahblah]

Applause!Applause!

Haven't seen another thread so interesting.But how are we to take it forward?Can't find anything amazing.

[Querida]

there is another set of these amazing facts out..i get it all the time in my forwards from friends...i will try to get my hands on it...thanx sweetoo for the interesting facts!

[Querida]

i just got inspired by one of the entries in sweetoo's post actually Shakespeare invented around 1700 of the words in the english language...here is just a taste of the influence this great playwright had upon our word usage:

alligator anchovies bandit
bed-room bump critic
dawn dew-drop employer
excitement eyeball fair play
farm-house football fortune-teller
glow horn-book lady-bird
love-letter luggage manager
mimic moonbeam mountaineer
partner puppy-dog radience
schoolboy shooting star shudder
watch-dog worm hole zany

[Querida]

hey i found that forward...

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters
in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa

A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 25 calories.

Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.

[RR]

Interesting.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

How about 'Rhythms'?