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Articles: Time Pass | STRANGE BUT TRUE..
- Mr. Gelli Badarinadh
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STRANGE BUT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!
Did you know a crocodile cannot stick its tongue or that Coca-Cola was originally green? Ever tried licking your elbow? Well, it's not possible! Some interesting facts, here they are:
ANIMALS:
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left-handed.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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.
HUMAN BODY:
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say, 'Bless you' when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
OF WORDS
Names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The 'sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
MISCELLANEOUS:
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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.
Q: What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
A: All invented by women.
Q: This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
A: Honey
A dentist invented the 'electric chair'.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Cheers...
Badri..
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