40 Interesting 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.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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. 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 the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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.
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
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.
17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They are all invented by women.
20. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? It is Honey.
21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
22. A snail can sleep for three years.
23. All polar bears are left handed.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
25. Butterflies taste with their feet.
26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.
31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like chocolate.
40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue.

Interesting Animal Facts

• Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere and never in the Northern Hemisphere.

• A single porcupine is known to kill 100 trees in one winter. It uses it's sharp claws to climb a tree, sits on a limb to gnaw away at the bark and twigs and then stuffs them all into its mouth at once. Because of it's liking for bark, the porcupine causes much damage to forests.

• A scallop moves by sucking water into its shell and then squirting it out suddenly. It likes to wander around and this gives it enough force to push it in front in a zig zag manner.

• A male garibaldi damselfish attract females for mating by covering a rock with a thick layer of alga. A male which clean off a rock to allow only algae to live have a higher chance of mating. The algae is also used to protect the eggs of the fish.

• To prevent the nest from getting soaked, the rare white-chinned swift, which nests behind the waterfalls of Latin America plant pieces of moss in the nest which then grow and reinforce the nest.

• A porcupine loves salt so much that it would walk into a camp and gnaw on anything that has been touched by salt or even by perspiring hands.

• Despite having a shell of armour for the body, an armadillo has teeth that do not have enamel and thus have very soft teeth. It can only eat soft food such as ants, termites, grubs and bugs.

• The tip of an elephant's trunk is so sensitive and flexible that it can pick up a pin.

• If a mole does not find food within 12 hours, it will die. Its chief food consists of insects and earthworms.

• A male nightingale stops singing when its eggs have hatched so as not to attract unnecessary attention to the nest. However he gives short calls to tell the female that all is well or danger is approaching.

• Bolas spiders snare moths by producing chemicals similar to pheromones used by several species of female moths to attract mates.

• The webbed feet of the stormy petrel enable it to 'walk' on water. It spends almost its entire life over the ocean and only comes to land to breed. If a storm arises, they can't walk on water and are forced to remain in the air all day and night.

• Some giant land turtles are able to bellow.

• No one knows what happens to the seahorse during winter as it is only seen during the summertime.

• There is a species in the river Nile in Egypt that avoids its enemies by swimming with its black belly up and its white back down.

• The arctic tern, a migrating bird is able to travel back and forth as much as 22000 miles in a course of a year.

• The Amazon army ants raid nests of certain black ants and carry back to cocoons and larvae to their own homes. When the cocoons hatch, they will become the slaves of these army ants and do all their work.

• The nest that an osprey is a huge and attractive one which is unhidden from sight and the bird adds new material each year to the same old nest. The nest can weigh up to 450 kilograms.

Interesting Facts

When God gave out brains,

I thought He said trains,

And I said I'd take the next one.

When God gave out looks,

I thought He said books,

And I didn't want any.

When God gave out noses,

I thought He said roses,

And I ordered a big one.

When God gave out legs,

I thought He said kegs,

So I ordered two fat ones.

When God gave out ears,

I thought He said beers,

So I ordered two long ones.

When God gave out chins,

I thought He said gins,

So I said, "Give me a double."

God, am I a mess!!

What Men Really Mean

What Men Really Mean :

1. "It's a guy thing."
Really means...."There is no rational thought pattern connected with it, and you have no chance at all of making it logical."
2. "Can I help with dinner?"
Really means...."Why isn't it already on the table?"
3. "Uh huh," "Sure, honey," or "Yes, dear."
Really means....Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response.
4. "It would take too long to explain."
Really means..."I have no idea how it works.
5. "We're going to be late."
Really means...."Now I have a legitimate excuse to drive like a maniac."
6. "Take a break, honey, you're working too hard."
Really means...."I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner."
7. "That's interesting, dear."
Really means...."Are you still talking?"
8. "It's a really good movie."
Really means...."It's got guns, knives, fast cars, and beautiful women."
9. "That's women's work."
Really means...."It's difficult, dirty, and thankless."
10. "You know how bad my memory is."
"Really means.... "I remember the theme song to 'F Troop', the address of the first girl I ever kissed and the Vehicle Identification Numbers of every car I've ever owned, but I forgot your birthday."
11. "I was just thinking about you, and got you these roses."
Really means.... "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe."
12. "Oh, don't fuss. I just cut myself, it's no big deal."
Really means.... "I have actually severed a limb, but will bleed to death before I admit I'm hurt."
13. "Hey, I've got my reasons for what I'm doing."
Really means.... "...And I sure hope I think of some pretty soon."
14. "I can't find it."
Really means.... "It didn't fall right into my outstretched hands, so I'm completely clueless."
15. "What did I do this time?"
Really means.... "What did you catch me at?"
16. "I heard you."
Really means.... "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't spend the next 3 days yelling at me."
17. "You know I could never love anyone else."
Really means.... "I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse."
18. "You look terrific."
Really means.... "Oh, God, please don't try on one more outfit. I'm starving."
19. "I'm not lost. I know exactly where we are."
Really means.... "No one will ever see us alive again."
20. "We share the housework."
Really means.... "I make the messes, she cleans them up."

Source: TechShankar

Some facts you might not know

1. Money isn’t made out of paper; it is made out of cotton.
2. The 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the variety of pickles the Company once had.
3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
4. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called the title.
5. A duck’s quack doesn’t produce echo, no one knows why.
6. Forty percent of McDonald’s profit comes from the sales of ‘happy meals’.
7. Every person has a unique tongue print.
8. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
9. On an average, 12 newborns will be given to wrong parents daily.
10. During the famous chariot scene in “Ben-Hur”, a small red car can be seen at a distance.
11. Warren Beatty and Shirley Maclaine are brother and sister.
12. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
13. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
14. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
16. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
17. There are no clocks in the Las Vegas gambling casinos.
18. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
19. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.
20. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
21. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
22. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
23. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
24. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

Interesting Facts

1. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
2. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
3. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
4. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
5. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
6. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
7. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
8. A snail can sleep for three years.
9. Al Capo ne's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
10. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
11. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
12. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
13. Babies are born without kneecaps; they don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
14. Butterflies taste with their feet.
15. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
16. Dogs only have about 10."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
17. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
18. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
19. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
20. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
21. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
22. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
23. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
24. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
27. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
28. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! sel that it burns.
29. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
30. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
31. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
32. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
33. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
34. There are more chickens than people in the world.
35. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
36. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
37. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
38. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
39. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
40. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
41. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
42. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.