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Triarch
31-08-2005, 09:17 AM
Well, I got a mail from my friend and these are very interesting facts and I want to share with you! Hope you Enjoy!



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Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to **** 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.

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


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.

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

If a statue of a person in the park 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
causes.

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield
wipers and laser
printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

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

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

Stewardesses is the longest wo! rd typed with only the
left hand.

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the body
to
squirt blood 30 feet.

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

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

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
different


And finally 99% of people who read this will try to
**** their elbow.
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So.. Did you enjoy? Please feel free to comment on what you found interesting or not. Thanks.

Triarch out.

0verRide
31-08-2005, 09:21 AM
nice work, never knew about the sneezing thing :( i do that sometimes

Triarch
31-08-2005, 09:51 AM
Same. But the most last part.. LMAO Its true. I tried to l!ck my elbow!

BLuweesH
31-08-2005, 11:30 AM
I didn't know about the cigarette lighter being invented before the match..:o

Georgia
31-08-2005, 11:35 AM
Interesting :)

Rachi
31-08-2005, 11:41 AM
Wow i didnt no the sneezin one

Jasmin
31-08-2005, 01:23 PM
-wipes of lipstick- Eww :o and yea i tried to l1ck my elbow :p and omgz, i didnt know about the sneezing thing, -takes of headphones- eww :s

Eamonn
31-08-2005, 01:30 PM
Ive heard the tounge one before but tis strange i can pick up chairs with my arm but not with my tounge so how is it the strongest :s

dementedpixel
31-08-2005, 01:47 PM
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and
'bump'.
Assasination wasnt invented by shakespear.
It was a trive in north africa called the assisins or sumtin and when they attacked other tribes it was clled assianation
and
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
They say bless you cos when the plauge was around they thought you were going to die every time you sneezed

Garycia
31-08-2005, 02:29 PM
C o o l
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Triarch
31-08-2005, 05:34 PM
eamonn: Because the arm has alot of muscles? They work together so the arm is stronger, the strongest muscle ALONE is the tongue.

dementedpixel: How do you know?

xJoeYx
31-08-2005, 05:39 PM
Interesting truths yes, but also scary, I dont want to sneeze again.. and I have hayfever :(

-Soph-
31-08-2005, 05:59 PM
omg, you cant l!ck your elbow either...

nice work :D

Clarissa
31-08-2005, 06:02 PM
Very interesting, i didn't know most of those :o

HolyWar
31-08-2005, 06:05 PM
North America is a continent and it doesn't start and end with "N". United States Of America is not a continent, it's a country.

Triarch
01-09-2005, 07:11 PM
Unspoken, AMERICA is a Continent, figure it out. God.

kasi
01-09-2005, 07:25 PM
i didnt try to lick my elbow :)

Triarch
02-09-2005, 01:00 PM
Wish you did Kassie :P

Found more truths!


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- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

- Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

- The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% ( now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

- The youngest pope was 11 years old.

- The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

- Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

Q.If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A,B and C"?
A. One Hundred

Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.

Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.

- This is where the "Eff" word came from: - In ancient England a person could not have *** unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having ***. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from. (Sorry about the "Language" but it explains where it came from! :) )

- In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

- The cruise liner, QE2 (Queen Elizabeth II), moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

- If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.

- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: indivisibility.

- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

- A "Jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

- Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye.

- The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

-The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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Hope you enjoyed the second version! :)

zak-x
02-09-2005, 01:02 PM
Very interesting

Triarch
02-09-2005, 01:17 PM
No favorites? No Weird ones? :P Did ya read the second part?

Jasmin
11-09-2005, 02:18 PM
0_0 OMG OMFRICKENGOD

8 and 9 ? and omg NIAGRA FALLS FROZE -dies-
wow very interesting +REP

EletricMornings
11-09-2005, 02:22 PM
eamonn: Because the arm has alot of muscles? They work together so the arm is stronger, the strongest muscle ALONE is the tongue.

dementedpixel: How do you know?
ok im gunna cofnuse you now.
Tis dementedpixel ona diff account
i know cos one.i learnt it in school
2.my dad told me
3.tis in my encyclopedia thngy

Adam$
11-09-2005, 03:53 PM
Cool.

The lícking elbow one is not true. It is possible to líck it. It was proven on a show 'Braniac: Science Abuse' on Skyone. They said it was impossible, but people disagreed, and sent in videos of themselves doing it. Only some people can.

EletricMornings
11-09-2005, 03:55 PM
them people tht can bendy themselvs lots can do it

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