Did you know these???

Paul Ooi, September 22nd, 2005

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1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

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

9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a millisecond.

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

12. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

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.

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.

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

16. 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 a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

18. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey

19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

20. A snail can sleep for three years.

21. All polar bears are left handed.

22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

23. Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

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

27. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.

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

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

30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

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

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

34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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

37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow



28 Responses to “Did you know these???”

  1. Chewxy Says:

    You might want to check the facts on the “bless you” one.

    It started because of the Black Death, not because your hearts stop

  2. PauL Says:

    hey chew, thank for that info, i will check on that. :)

  3. Jlchannel Says:

    Good article :)

  4. mahagurusia Says:

    hahahaha, great post and silly me did tried licking my own elbow!!

  5. PauL Says:

    mahaguru, luckily u licking elbow, i am licking something else :P

  6. twinsmom Says:

    the ppl who come out with this must be EFNTD.
    and I am one of the the 99% :lol:…

  7. Double Happiness 双喜临门 » Did you know these??? Says:

    [...] Did you know these??? [...]

  8. Jason Says:

    I am one of the 1% who didn’t try to lick my elbow…. Wuuuhoo~!

  9. egghead Says:

    I thought the strongest muscle is something else (at least for a guy)???

  10. PauL Says:

    Jason: sure or not one you? heheh ;)

    egghead: during lick move faster or the _something else_ move faster? :P

  11. greenapple Says:

    haha, so funny, and interesting at the same time. the 99th line was darn right … ish, both me and my darling really did that!

  12. PauL Says:

    Greenapple sure u trying hard with ya darling huh? :)

  13. Jason Says:

    Yes, very sure! Cause I kena this 3 years ago, and I tried before. So, I know already. *coughs* SMART *coughs* people like me won’t repeat the same mistake twice. :bpbpbp

  14. PauL Says:

    no wonder my friends.. u knew it earlier.. mean u also ex- 1 of the 99%

  15. Elvin Says:

    it is very interseting information

  16. Paul Ooi Says:

    Elvin, U tried lick your elbow?

  17. kim Says:

    I tried when I read this to lick my elbow. I can lick my elbow.

  18. daniel Says:

    i can lick my left elbow but not the right one. i should be able to make money off of this like at a circus or something or some kind of ribleys believe it or not.

  19. daniel Says:

    we should start some kind of club for people who can lick their elbow

  20. 琮正 Says:

    haha dude, u sure or not.. can licked? picture show me, I post here.

  21. 矮子 Says:

    the person whom can lick his elbow come from Singapore
    he is a world guissness record holder
    his tounge his roughly 4 cm longer than average

  22. Jennifer Says:

    you can also type aftereffects, desegregated, and reverberated which all have 12 letters like stewerdesses with only your left hand!

  23. mahaguru58 Says:

    Hahahahaha…i had a go trying to lick my elbow…:P

    Hehehehehe..we surely are curious, aren’t we?

    Enjoyed this post!

  24. valerie Says:

    I can lick my elbow, i first did it in P.E. lol. My tounge isnt long, im just flexible.

  25. Sam T Says:

    I can lick my elbow aswell!! i found it out about 3years ago at primary school when we read something like this!! Most of my school knows about it so i always get asked to lick my elbow!!

  26. Paul Ooi Says:

    dude, can u send me picture?

  27. Sam T Says:

    ill try and take a picture for you 2nite!

  28. He Can Licks His Elbow Says:

    [...] This dude is damn cool, he left comments on my blog and said he can licks his elbow. I said I can’t, and asked can he show and share the “prove” with us, yes… Here you are! [...]

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