Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Facts - General Knowledge

*1. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.*


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


*3. The name of the entire continents end with the same letter that they start with.*


*4. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.*


*5. Most lipstick contains fish scales.*


*6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using theletters 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. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.*


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


*13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try tosuppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neckand die.*


*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.


*15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321 (count out the answer)*


*16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legsin the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a resultof wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of naturalcauses. *


*17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers andlaser printers all have in common?Answer - All invented by women.*


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

*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 olivefrom 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 words 'assassination' and 'bump'.*


*28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.*


*29. An 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 o squirtblood 30 feet.*


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


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

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