Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Some facts.

I am not interested in flooding my blog with forward but this one is certainly interesting :).
1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
3. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
4. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.(to be noted).
5. It is impossible to lick your elbow.(don't try it, i have not).
6. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when youSneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
7. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky(including the Empress :)).
8. 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.
9. 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.
10 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
11. A snail can sleep for three years(inspiring).
12. Butterflies taste with their feet.
13. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death(have to :)).
14. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
15. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
16. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.

2 comments:

Anubhav said...

Quite informative indeed :)

Charlie~Thotti said...

I couldn't help but comment on this one: "Bless you" is said as it is believed that you sneeze out the devil within you. But there are several other origins to this as well.