Wednesday, May 6, 2009

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The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue .

* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

* 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.

* 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 great king from history.

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar .

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

Ans. - Honey

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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

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

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

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

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

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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

-A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

-The most common blood type in the world is type O.

-The rarest blood type in the world is type A-H, less than 12 people have it.

-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

-The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

-Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.

-The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."

-In the Scottish language Gaidhlig (Gaelic), there is no word for 'yes' or 'no'.

-The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants.

-Smokers need twice as much vitamin C (80mg) as non-smokers (40mg) daily   


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