DO YOU KNOW
Part 1
- It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
- A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
- A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
- People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
- In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one
reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (busted?)
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or
received a telephone call.
- Rats and horses can't vomit.
- 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.
- If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might
pop an eyeball out.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over a million descendants.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting
on them and photocopying .
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping,
eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
- A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive
juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
- Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a
special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash
occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a
brief period.
- The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock
music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the
explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to
"quality" music.
- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese
emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling
water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
- Over the last 150 years the average height of people in
industrialised nations has increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the 19th
century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m
(5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m
(5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78
(5'8.5") for the Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is the
Watusis of Burundi.
- In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks,
who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box
with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of
the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
- Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in
1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894.
But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German
priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project
hand-ppainted images onto a white screen.
collected By . P.Bala dasarathan.
ADMIN
For .Bharath matric Hr sec school
For .Bharath matric Hr sec school
