Some Interesting Facts |
- Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
- Spades: King David
- Clubs: Alexander the Great
- Hearts: Charlemagne
- Diamonds: Julius Caesar
- Michael Jordan gets more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- Like finger prints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match sticks.
- Finally ... 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Source: Buddha Yatra (No. 9, April 2006)
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