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Monday, November 8, 2010

Next 50 Amazing Facts

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

2.  The most common name in the world is  Mohammed.

3.  The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that  they start with.
 (Asia, Europe, America(North & South), Australia, Antarctica and Africa)

4.  The strongest muscle in the body is the  tongue.

5.  It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the  sky.

6.  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the  letters
    only on one row of the  keyboard.

7.  Women blink nearly twice as much as  men!

8.  You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

9.  It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10.  People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
Sneeze, your  heart stops for a  millisecond.

11.  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.

12.  The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest  tongue twister in the English  language.

13. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
 
14.  Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from History.


Hearts - Charlemagne;
Diamonds -  Julius  Caesar;
Spades - King David;
Clubs - Alexander the Great.

15.  111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =  12,345,678,987, 654,321

16.  If a statue of a warrior 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.

17  What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and  
laser printers all have in  common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

18.  Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.

19.  A crocodile cannot stick its tongue  out.

20.  A snail can sleep for three years.

21.  All polar bears are left  handed.

22.  American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in  first-class.

23.  Butterflies taste with their  feet.

24.  Elephants are the only animals that can't  jump.

25.  In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

26.  On average, people fear spiders more than they do  death.

27.  Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and  'bump'.

28.  STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left  hand.

29.  The ant always falls over on its right side when  intoxicated.

30.  The electric chair was invented by a  dentist.

31.  The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to  the
body to squirt blood 30  feet.

32.  Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have  over
million  descendants.

33.  Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.

34.  The cigarette lighter was invented before the  match.

35.  Most lipstick contains fish scales.

36.  Pearls melt in vinegar

37.  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

38.  "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

39.  The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crimescene.

40.  An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

41. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

42. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

43.  If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without beingable to make change for a dollar.

44.  If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

45.  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

46.  On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

47. Cat's urine glows under a black light.


48. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

49. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would
      have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
      If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
      is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.


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

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