Amazing Facts

[GEEK]

Here are somethings you may not know......

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

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

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4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters

only on one row of the keyboard.

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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

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

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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you

Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

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

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12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the

toughest tongue twister in the English language.

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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.

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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.

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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

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16. If a statue of a warrior on a banana has both front legs

in the air, the person died in battle. If the

banana has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

If the banana has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural

causes.

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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and

laser printers all have in common?

Ans.. - All invented by women.

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18. Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.

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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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20. A snail can sleep for three years.

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21. All polar bears are left handed.

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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive

from each salad served in first-class.

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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

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26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

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

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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the

body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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

million descendants.

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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in

your ear by 700 times..

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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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

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[HVC]

A snail can sleep for three years.

I think i can compete with that.

[Fungus]

At least one of those things is not true... there is pictures of people who can lick their elbow.

[Killboy]

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Snails can jump ?

[F0X]

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

yeah I knew that one all ready, it sucks so bad >.<

but snails can't jump right?

[Ufo-Pu55y]

The facts about animals rock :laugh:

Why shouldn't snails be able to jump ??? :S

[pseudonym]

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

5a Only 1 in 2 people in the United States know they have more than 1 credit card.

[Blah]

sombody should add these facts into a patch or sumthn..

cheers

[Baxter]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes OPEN...

There is NO other word in the English language that rhymes with 'orange'.

(a couple more for ya.. )

[Teddy Rogers]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes OPEN...

There is probably a very good reason why nature does this for us...

Ted.

[What]

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Hmm, I wonder what other things do when they are 'intoxicated'. Time to do some testing.

[Loki]

There is NO other word in the English language that rhymes with 'orange'.

...or purple

And number 16 is balls.... its one which is commonly said but is actually completely incorrect.

[t0m]

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

North AmericA

South AmericA

"America" isn't a continent.

3 = wrong.

[atom0s]

8. You passout before you kill yourself. I'm sure if you did it enough you could damage your brain enough to kill yourself.

9. Has been proven wrong before.

13. Wow didn't know that, think I will never hold in a sneeze again lol.

33. My ears are the dirtiest part of my body then beings that I have headphones on almost 24/7 lol..

Some other random facts found via Google cause I'm bored:

http://www.greatfacts.com/

"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

[ooom]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes OPEN...

There is probably a very good reason why nature does this for us...

Ted.

eyes shut when you sneeze because the pressure of air when you sneeze would blow your eyes out of there socket if your eyes were open.

[0xAC]

You're good.. hahaha

I didn't care to notice some of these things if you didn't write it...

what about the longest word typed using the right hand? hehe :biggrin:

[unclebobee]

Thanks !! I needed that !

[mynes]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes OPEN...

There is probably a very good reason why nature does this for us...

Ted.

eyes shut when you sneeze because the pressure of air when you sneeze would blow your eyes out of there socket if your eyes were open.

Ace i like to see that xD