Monday, June 20, 2011

DO YOU KNOW ?

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. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters Only on one row! Of the keyboard.


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


7. Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck


8. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,Your Heart stops for a millisecond.


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


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


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. 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.

13. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side


14. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.


15. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.


16. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.


17. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.


18. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.


19. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.


20. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.


21. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.


22. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.


23. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).


24. If a statue in the park of a person 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 cause.


25. Women blink nearly twice as much as men


26. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

27. People with blue eyes see better in dark.

28. Money isn ' t made out of paper, it is made out of cotton.

29. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.  

31. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

32. The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.

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

34. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

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

36. We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

37. Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

38. Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.

39. When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.

40. There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

41. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

42. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing

43. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.

44. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

45. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

46. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

47. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.