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Posted Date: 19 Feb 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Deepu Member Level: Diamond
Rating:  Points: 5
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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.
# 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 lick your elbow.
# Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
# Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
# 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.
# The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
# Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
# The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
# To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
# 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
# Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
# The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
# A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
# Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
# The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
# Ants can live up to 16 years.
# In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
# The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
# Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay
crunchy for up to three weeks.
# A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
# The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
# There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
# The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
# The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
# The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
# The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
# A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
# Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
# The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is
blue.
# Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound
is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
# The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year
with new growth.
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