49 Interesting Facts One Should Know
1. Hot
water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
2. The
Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
3. The
sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in
the English language.
4. The
strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. Ants
never sleep!
6. “I
Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
7. Coca-Cola
was originally green.
8. The
most common name in the world is Mohammed.
9. When
the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
10. Camels
have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
11. There
are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:
“abstemious” and “facetious.”
12. The
name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
13. There
are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
14. TYPEWRITER
is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the
keyboard.
15. Minus
40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16. Chocolate
can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and
nervous system.
17. Women
blink nearly twice as much as men!
18. You
can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It
is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. The
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from
Public Libraries.
21. People
say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
stops for a millisecond.
22. It
is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
23. The
"sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
24. “Rhythm”
is the longest English word without a vowel.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 111,111,111
x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
28. If
a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the
person died in battle.
29. If
the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds
received in battle.
30. If
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
31. What
do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all
have in common?
Ans.
- All invented by women.
32. Question
- This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans.
- Honey
33. A
crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
34. A
snail can sleep for three years.
35. All
polar bears are left handed.
36. American
Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served
in first-class.
37. Butterflies
taste with their feet.
38. Elephants
are the only animals that can't jump.
39. In
the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
40. On
average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
41. Stewardesses
is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
42. The
ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
43. The
electric chair was invented by a dentist.
44. The
human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet.
45. Rats
multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million
descendants.
46. Wearing
headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
47. The
cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
48. Most
lipstick contains fish scales.
49. Like
fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
