Saturday, October 10, 2009

General Knowledge

* 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.

* 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.

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

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

* This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Answer: Honey.

* 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.

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

* Most lipstick contains fish scales.

* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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

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

* Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

* 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.

* 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.

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