Monday, February 16, 2009

20 Really Strange and Interesting Facts

1
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
2
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
3
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
4
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.
5
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.
6
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
7
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
8
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
9
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
10
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
11
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
12
A snail can sleep for three years.
13
Polar bears are well-adapted to severe cold. Winter temperatures in the far north often plunge to -40° F or -50° F and can stay that way for days or even weeks.
14
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
15
Butterflies taste with their feet.
16
The name hippopotamus comes from the Greek words "hippos," meaning horse, and "potamus," meaning river.
17
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
18
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
19
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
20
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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