General Knowledge & Facts

General Knowledge & Facts

Amazing Facts
About our Body

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with :new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence! :
In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off :the ground. :
Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions. :
In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels. :
The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same. : :The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981. :
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
:Most people blink about 25 times a minute. :
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of :blood vessels. : :Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 :miles per hour.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for :your heart.
You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
Every two thousand frowns :creates one wrinkle.
The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year. :
The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in :their lifetime. : :You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire :a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make :2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
:Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans. :In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various :mammals :and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.
Ophthalmic surgery was one of the most advanced areas of medicine in the ancient world. Detailed descriptions of delicate cataract surgery with sophisticated needle syringes is contained in the medical writings of Celsus (A.D.14-37)
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from :the microorganisms on your body. According to the World Health Organization, there are :approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :
When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. :
One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together. THE TYANA TABLOID : 2 APRIL 2000
We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!
(From Deepak Chopra's, Magical Mind Magical Body')

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Amazing-But-True Facts!

(The following have all been verified as possibly true in a parallel universe.)

"Hello Kitty" began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.

‘TYPEWRITER’ is the longest word than can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard the topmost.

A bad case of laryngitis forced Abraham Lincoln to lip-sync the Gettysburg Address. The speech was actually delivered by an aide hidden beneath the stage.

A futuristic automobile designed by Ford for the movie Blade Runner was produced and sold in limited quantities as the "Ford Harrison."

A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.

A prominent organization of anthropologists has predicted that by the year 5000, humans will have two rectums, but only one nostril.

Anyone convicted of animal cruelty in Sedalia, Missouri, is sentenced to a month's confinement in the county animal shelter.

British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.

Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.

Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents before 6 a.m. on Saturdays.

Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.

For over a decade, the number of drive-by shootings has been directly proportional to increased gas prices.

Human beings can be left-handed or right-handed. All polar bears are left handed.

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.

If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball.

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

If the current trend continues, by the year 2215 midgets will outnumber "normal-sized" people.

In 1960, a then-unknown Dan Rather auditioned for the voice of cartoon character Dudley Do-Right but was turned down by animator/director Jay Ward.

In the late '90s, Microsoft secretly developed its own version of Linux, but shelved it after quality control researchers deemed it "too stable."

Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.

John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.

Junk food is ever on the rise especially in America. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. That is more than how much an average person walks in four days. The result: obesity has become a disease of the developed nations.

Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.

Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.

No NCAA basketball team from a school located in its state's capital has ever won the national championship.

Ostrich’s have tiny heads that they bury in the sand whenever they are frightned. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Peter Maas, creator of the character Serpico, got his character's name from an ultra-expensive, highly-prized Malaysian liqueur made from fermented viper venom.

Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.

Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.

Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the average lifespan by nearly two full months.

Shortly before his execution, Timothy McVeigh constructed a scale model of the Lincoln Memorial with soda crackers.

Strains of bacteria similar to E. coli have been found in spent printer cartridges -- but only in the cyan ones. Scientists have no explanation.

The African black rhinoceros excretes its own weight in dung every 48 hours.

The Australian aborigine language has over 30 words for "dust."

The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.

The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.

The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. No wonder, the dentist’s chair is just as scary.

The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.

The four different people who, at various times, tried -- and failed -- to become the Guinness Book of World Records' "Human Milkshake Volcano" by drinking five gallons of milk and then riding the Six Flags Screaming' Eagle roller coaster all shared the same birthday: September 18, 1970.

The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.

The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

The top three names for female babies born in China last year were Huan Yue, Jia Li and -- unlikely as it seems -- Buffy.

There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an entire winter.

To commemorate ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, U.S. playing card manufacturers replaced "staffs" with "hearts" as the fourth suit in the deck. The world soon followed.

Two-thirds of all the world's coriander comes from a single valley in Italy.

When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

When in heat, female hippopotami secrete an oil with a flavor similar to strawberries. Kalahari bushmen use the oil to make flat-bread treats for children.

When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north.

Which came first the lighter or the matchstick? Guess what, though the lighter may look more technically complex than matches, it was invented first before the matches were.

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on "Start"?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

o In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.
You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.
The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.
Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.
The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

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Do you know?

Ø A cow uses first the hind legs when getting up.

Ø The crowds at the ancient Roman arenas made the "Thumbs up" gesture when they desired that the life of a fallen gladiator should be spared- an expression now meaning "in luck's way"

Ø Amsterdam in the Netherlands (Holland) in Western Europe is called "City of diamonds".

Ø Albert Einstein did not win the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity. He won it for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Ø Diamond when pure is colourless.

Ø A blizzard is a snowstorm.

Ø Apart from hearing, the ears help human beings to keep their balance.

Ø Horses and ostriches (Africa) fight with their feet. Apes and hippos are face fighters. Human beings and kangaroos (Australia) are hand fighters.

Ø The English word 'news' comes from the French word meaning 'new things' and is thought to be originated from the four points of the compass: North, East, West and South.

Ø Peter Parker is the actual name of comic hero, Spiderman.

Ø Elephants are only the animals that cannot jump.

Ø 'Go' is the shortest complete sentence in English.

Ø It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Ø A cow gives 2,00,000 glasses of milk throughout its lifetime.

Ø Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Ø A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Ø An ant can lift 50 times its weight and can pull 30 times its weight.

Ø A cockroach is the fastest insect. It can move 1 metre in a second.

Ø A mosquito has 42 teeth.

Ø The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Ø If you unfold your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

Ø In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Ø During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

Ø A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

Ø Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

Ø An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.

Ø Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

Ø One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.

Ø You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Ø You are subject to fines and/ or imprisonment for making ugly faces at dogs in Oklahoma.

Ø Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Ø Moths that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13^th'.

Ø When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

Ø If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

Ø The heartbeats about 250,00,00,000 times in the course of a man's lifetime.

Ø Fingerprints of a person remain unchanged throughout his or her life.

Ø Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Ø Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Ø A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Ø It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Ø If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

Ø Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it

has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

Ø Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Ø Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.

Ø To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

Ø If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

Ø Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Ø The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Ø The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Ø A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Ø If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it!)

Ø If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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

Ø A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Ø Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still not

over that pig thing!!!)

Ø Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Ø On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ø The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmm.....)

Ø You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Ø Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. (Licking?)

Ø You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Ø Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Ø One in ten pig is gay.

Ø The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Ø Polar bears are left-handed.

Ø The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

Ø The flea can jump 350 times its body length; it's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Ø A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.(Creepy!)

Ø The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Honey, I'm home.. what the...)

Ø Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Ø Butterflies taste with their feet.

Ø Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Ø A cat's urine glows under a black light.

Ø An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Ø Starfishes haven't got brains.

Ø Go is the shortest, complete sentence.

Ø ‘Okay’ was the first word spoken on the moon.

Ø There are 9,666 dots in a basketball.

Ø Venus is the only planet to spin backwards.

Ø It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.

Ø A teaspoonful of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.

Ø February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Ø A woodpecker can peck 20 times in a second.

Ø The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.

Ø A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

Ø The female lion does more than 90 per cent of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

Ø At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

Ø Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.

Ø A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Ø A cat’s jaws cannot move sideways.

Ø An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Ø The first kind of pencil was bunch of graphite sticks held together by sting. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.

Ø A cheetah does not roar like a lion- it purrs like a cat (meow).

Ø The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighting less than a penny.

Ø The gulper Eel head alone is two feet. The gulper uses its tail to help catch its prey.

Ø Your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight.

Ø More than half the people in Mali start working before they are 10 years old.

Ø The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.

Ø The woman’s tongue of Zanzibar is a plant with pods full of seeds which rattle continuously.

Ø A crocodile really does produce tears, but they’re not due to sadness. The tears are glandular secretions that work to expel excess salt from the eyes. Hence, “crocodile tears” are false tears.

Ø A blue whale’s tongue weights more than an elephant.

Ø A large kangaroo would make a great long-distance jumper, covering more than thirty feet with a single jump.

Ø Pigs can become alcoholics.

Ø Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

Ø Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.

Ø The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the a Pacific Ocean.

Ø I you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

Ø In England, the Speaker of the House in not allowed to speak.

Ø During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

Ø A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

Ø Billy goats urinate on their won heads to smell more attractive to females.

Ø An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.

Ø Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

Ø One in 500 humans had one blue eye and one brown eye.

Ø You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Ø Your are subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making faces at dogs in Oklahoma.

Ø Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Ø Months that begin on Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13^th’.

Ø When a giraffe’s baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

Ø If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

Ø Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take bath at least once a year.

Ø Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.

Ø While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard da Vinci was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture.

Ø Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.

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contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which can cause sleepiness (warm milk also contains tryptophan).

Ø Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.

Ø Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat. The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.

Ø The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.

Ø A zebra is white with black stripes.

Ø The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Ø “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Ø A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

Ø It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Ø Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

Ø Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Ø Twenty-Four_Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it.

Ø Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Ø The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

Ø The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

Ø The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.

Ø Lightening bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun (about 50000⁰F).

Ø Astronauts grow taller in space.

Ø A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.

Ø On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting in front of traffic lights.

Ø Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Ø Electricity doesn’t move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Ø A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

Ø Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

Ø Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.

Ø There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer its rats.

Ø A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.

Ø A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

Ø Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry.

Ø It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.

Ø In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.

Ø Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste.

Ø One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.

Ø The housefly can taste with its feet.

Ø Sitka Spruce, a tree which is found in the Arctic region grows just 11 inches tall in 98 years.

Ø Long ago, world’s continents were all joined together which later broke up and drifted apart.

Ø A strand of hair is longer than an equally think strand of nylon or copper.

Ø Even while taking rest, our whole blood supply washes through our lungs nearly once a minute.

Ø A square inch of muscle in a human body can lift 26 to 65 kg weight.

Ø Dolphins sleep with one eye open at all times.

Ø Gorilla sticks its tongue out to show anger.

Ø The Gaint cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.

Ø The temperature of the earth’s interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.

Ø Spiders have transparent blood.

Ø Worms can have up to ten hearts.

Ø There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in it’s body to kiss six cats.

Ø When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

Ø The can opener was invented 48 years after the can was.

Ø The word ‘set’ had more definitions than any other word in the English language.

Ø The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

Ø Dentistry has achieved the highest number of suicidal deaths for a professional job.

Ø An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.

Ø Half the world’s population have seen at least one James Bond Movie.

Ø The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

Ø What is a phoenicopter?

A flamingo

Ø The singing of which ocean liver helped bring about the U.S.A.’s entry into World War?

Lusitania

Ø What is the full title of William Shakespeare’s play “Othello”?

Ohtello, the Moor of Venice

Ø Which is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?

Aluminium

Ø Where is the tooth of Gautam?

Kandy’s temple of tooth, Sri Lanka

Ø Which is the world’s longest suspension bridge?

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of

Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

v An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Useless facts ! Weird Information

WEIRD !!!!!

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

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

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

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

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China

has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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

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

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Almonds are members of the peach family.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Dichotomy: When the surface of the Moon, Venus or Mercury is exactly half-lit, the phenomenon is called Dichotomy.

An apple was originally called a napple!

Spiders spin 7 different types of webs.

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for (1/100)^th of a second.
India invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented Zero.
A snail can sleep for 4 years (Wow! Lucky chap eh?)
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are Mizaru (See no eveil), Mikazaru (hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil).
55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. Hello, zzzzzz zzzzzzz?

50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

(or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

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Complete one-liners listing

Do you know a good one-liner that's not listed here? Be sure to send it to me! Let me know if you want to be credited or not.

"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?" --Tom Clancy.
"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." --Peter Kaye.
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - George W. Bush
43% of all statistics are worthless.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
A bad plan is better than no plan.
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A gentleman is a patient wolf.
A good pun is its own reword.
A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl's complexion seem what it ain't.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend.
A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students
A weekend wasted isn't a wasted weekend.
A witty saying proves nothing.
According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
Adult: One old enough to know better.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.
All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
All work and no play, will make you a manager.
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves.
An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Are you wearing lipstick? Well, mind if I taste it?
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
Atheists can do whatever the hell they want.
Attitude determines your altitude.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Bald guys never have a bad hair day.
Batteries not included.
Be good - and if you can't be good, be careful.
Be good; if you can't be good, have fun.
Be naughty - save santa the trip.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beauty lasts for a moment, but ugly goes on and on and on.
Beer - the reason I wake up every afternoon.
Best viewed on my computer.
Better late than really late.
Biology grows on you.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Carpenter's rule: cut to fit; beat into place.
Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
Clones are people two.
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?
Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.
Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Don't argue with a fool. The spectators can't tell the difference.
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
Don't believe everything you think.
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Don't let yesterday take up to much of today.
Don't steal a police car unless you're prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico.
Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Don't trust reality. After all, it's only a collective hunch.
Drive defensively - buy a tank.
Drugs cause amnesia and other things I can't remember.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
Earn cash in your spare time. Blackmail your friends.
Earth first! (We'll strip-mine the other planets later).
Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun.
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance.
Elevators smell different to midgets.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Even at a Mensa convention someone is the dumbest person in the room.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
Everyone is beautiful if you squint a bit.
Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
Excuse me, is there an airport nearby large enough for a private jet to land?
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
Failure is not an option - it's a lifestyle.
Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.
Failure teaches success.
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
First rule of acting: whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
For a good time, call (415) 642-9483.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen.
Friendly fire - isn't.
Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Frog blast the vent core!
Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in kansas anymore.
Getting screwed while everybody else is getting laid.
Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God made us brothers, but prozac made us friends.
God will forgive me. That's his job, after all.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
Help wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
Hey, you want to go out for pizza and some sex? What, you don't like pizza?
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
I am not single, I'm romantically challenged.
I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
I can't spell and beer doesn't help.
I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
I don't mind coming to work, but that eight hour wait to go home is a bitch!
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I doubt, therefore I might be.
I drink to make other people interesting.
I have a strong will but a weak won't.
I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
I prefer old age to the alternative.
I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better.
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
I'd buy you a drink, but i'd be jealous of the straw.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I'm perfect.
I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
I'm not paranoid, they really are after me.
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far.
If a man tells a woman she's beautiful she'll overlook most of his other lies.
If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them.
If all the girls in Australia were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?
If everything seems to be going right, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
If god is inside us, then I hope he likes Fajita's, cause that's what he's getting.
If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work 'gay'?
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
If life gives you lemons, stick them down your shirt and make your boobs look bigger.
If oranges smell like chicken, why are tomatoes blue? Think about it!
If the early bird catches the worm, what about the worm?
If the opposite of pro is con, then what must be the opposite of progress?
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance.
If you are not committing any sins, you are probably not having a lot of fun.
If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
If you can see this, you're not blind, which is a very good start.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed towards you.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you try and don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
If you're happy, you're successful.
If you're not having fun, then you're not doing it right.
Illegal drugs are the chlorine in the gene pool.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?
In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man.
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove any lingering doubt.
It's like deja vu all over again.
It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
It's people that give drinking a bad name.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
Learn from my parent's mistake. Don't have kids!
Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control.
Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Life exists for no known purpose.
Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don't complain about the draught.
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
Life's a bitch, and then you're reincarnated.
Life's a bleach and then you dye.
Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Love is atemporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
Lunix... Because i'm better than you.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
Marriage. An expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.
Married men live longer than single men, but they're a lot more willing to die.
Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. 'No' is the answer.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Money should be utilized as a tool. You just gotta know which nuts to screw.
Most people don't act stupid - it's the real thing.
Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.
Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.
Never buy a car you can't push.
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
Never eat yellow snow.
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Never, ever make absolute, unconditional statements.
No good deed goes unpunished.
No-one suspects the butterfly!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Not all men are fools... Some are bachelors.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
Old age is nothing to worry about, except if you're a cheese.
Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
Pretend to spank me - I'm a pseudo-masochist!
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Quando omni flunkus moritati - when all else fails, play dead.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Reality is a nice place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
Rehab is for quitters.
Religion cannot be without morality, but morality may arrive without religion.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
Save water - take a bath with your neighbor's daughter.
Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
Sex on tv can't hurt unless you fall off.
Sleep: a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.
Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Smith & wesson: the original point and click interface.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.
Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.
Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
Spelling is a lossed art.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
Support your local Search and Rescue unit. Get lost.
Sure, when... - oink flap oink flap - well I'll be darned!
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Take it easy, and if you get it easy take it twice.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
The Killer Ducks are coming!
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The best things in life aren't things.
The chance of a piece of bread falling the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
The only certain thing in life is death.
The only job you start at the top is digging a hole.
The only really decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
The revolution will not be televised.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
The web isn't better than sex, but sliced bread is in serious trouble.
There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
There is no time like the pleasant.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
There's too much blood in my alcohol system.
They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
Think much, Speak little, Write less.
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
This website may not be idiot proof, but at least it's dimwit resistant.
This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
To err is human, to forgive highly unlikely.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Today is the first day of the rest of this mess.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Today's children would be less spoiled if we could spank grandparents!
Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Too much of everything is just enough.
Tracers work both ways.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Veni, vedi, visa. I came. I saw. I did a little shopping.
Viewer discretion may be advised, but it's never really expected.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
Wasting time is an important part of living.
We all can't be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.
We found Jesus - he was behind the sofa all along.
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
Welcome what you can't avoid.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.
When I was young I was told that anyone could be president. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
When all else fails, admit i'm right and kiss my ass.
When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
When in doubt empty the magazine.
When in doubt, do what the President does. Guess.
When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
When someone points skyward, it's the fool that looks at the finger.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. grenade is not our friend.
When vultures fly, are they allowed carrion luggage?
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Who are these kids and why are they calling me mom?
Why buy shampoo when real poo is still free.
Why do they use sterile needles for lethal injections?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.
With a rubber duck, you're never alone.
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
You don't have to explain something you never said.
You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.
You're just jealous because the little voices only talk to me.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

Which Bird are you??
Find your birth, find your Bird and then scroll down……

21 Jan – 17 Feb Robin

18 Feb – 17 March Gold Finch

18 March – 14 April Hawk

15 April – 12 May Albatross

13 May – 8 June Dove

10 June – 7 July Eagle

8 July – 4 Aug Nightingale

5 Aug – 1 Sept King Fisher

2 Sept – 29 Sept Swan

30 Sept – 27 Oct Woodpecker

28 Oct – 24 Nov Kestrel

25 Nov – 23 Dec Raven

24 Dec – 0 Jan Heron

Robin

A cool exterior disguises a fiery temper and is very opinionated although those options are not always shared by everyone. They are proud and particularly home-loving, although have a tendency to be quarrelsome.

Gold Finch

Gold finch people are colourful characters who are sensitive and always alert. They are gregarious by nature and love being in groups of people, which offers them security. They need to find an outlet for their imaginative abilities or they are sometimes in danger or becoming nervous and irritable.

Hawk

A powerful individual who displays courage and sometimes ruthless determination. Avoids problematic obstacles with skill, although must be fully targeted so as not to waste energy in fruitless chases for the impossible.

Albatross

Has a tendency to have a mind that wanders, but when in search of a particular goal, will travel great lengths to achieve it. Occasionally, the albatross may become caught up in things it shouldn’t when not seeing clearly enough.

Dove

Peace-loving by nature, doves will bill and coo about things close to their heart. They enjoy a fulfilling love-life and rarely fail to satisfy. They are also patient, adaptable and personable. Their lack of aggression sometimes makes them the victim of predating characteristics.

Eagle

A well-respected figure which has excellent visionary qualities. Eagles will talk no nonsense and will fix the opponents with a powerful stare. They have the power to rise above the trivial aspects of humanity and are highly talented.

Nightingale

More heard before being seen, nightingales always have something to say for themselves. They are however very much in tune with their partners. Their unimpressive exterior hides a personality that is just waiting to burst out.

King Fisher

Another flamboyant and colourful character that is always exciting to encounter. They rush around at great speed and have a sharp and perceptive head in them but can make them impetuous enough to drive in where others would fear to go.

Swan

The swan is a complex character. While appearing on the surface as a calm and relaxed individual, underneath they are working hard to keep up with the pace of modern life. If provoked their natural graceful demeanour can give way to a violent temper which puts them in a flap. They are definitely someone to have on your side.

Woodpecker

A tough, hard-working character with plenty of stamina. Hs no problem drumming support for their ideas, matter how wacky they seem. With a lateral thinking mind they are skilled at dissecting problems and seeing the wood for the trees. However, with their noisy and exuberant lifestyle, you might not want to have one as a neighbour.

Kestrel

A sharp brain helps kestrel people hover from one subject to another without losing concentration. They focus on their life’s goal with a single-minded focus, not flustered by what is going on around them. A confidence in their own ability helps them to soar to heights others may only dream of.

Raven

Always impressive, raven people are a tower of strength. They are more intelligent than their peer and are adept problem-solvers. They enjoy challenges and are stimulated by wild and exposed places.

Heron

Heron people are deceptive. Although they may be solitary individuals for much of the time, they nevertheless have a need to settle in busy communities where they know everyone else. They may get bogged down as they wade the course of life, but have broad enough shoulders to cope with weighty issues. But their insecure nature often leads them to fish for complements.

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INCIDENCE OR COINCIDENCE

The names of Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both presidents were shot dead on Friday.
Both were shot on their head.
Both their wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both presidents were assassinated by a Southerner.
Both presidents were warned by their secretaries, not to go to the Theatre and to Dallas respectively.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Booth ran from a theatre and was cornered in a ware hose.
Oswald ran from a ware hose and was cornered in a theatre.
Both assassins were known by their three names- both names have 15 letters.

To crown it all, Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trails.

Your blood Group? Know who you are!

Blood Group ‘O’

cannot stand people who hide the truth
makes objectives clear
possess great deal of confidence
honest, optimistic and energetic
strength and endurance depends on their aim
give up easily if they find the job meaningless
positive about the past life
sensitive towards sincerity
give frank, direct opinion
ability to concentrate varies from time to time
mostly prefer to lead
usually stable to clam

2. Blood Group ‘AB’

§ pessimistic and too sensitive

§ careful about decision making

§ care too much about social rules and standards

§ high tolerate for physical and repetitive work

§ cannot take changed easily

§ lose interest in a hobby easily

§ try hard to forget the past

§ pessimistic about the future

§ able to display cool look even though angry

§ take longer to deal a broken heart

§ perfectionist

§ highly responsible

§ handle one thing at a time

§ tend to choose hobbies that help them release stress

Blood Group ‘A’

§ cannot take orders easily

§ make decisions fast

§ can be flexible

§ do not care about rules and regulations

§ respect scientific and practical findings

§ maintain the longest interest is what they do

§ seem impatient

§ dislikes repetitious works

§ expressive, cool and objective

§ although joke a lot, could actually be very shy

§ creative and possess new ideas

§ cannot stop complaining when they are upset

Blood Group ‘B’

§ romantic and sentimental

§ extremely practical

§ excellent in analysis

§ cannot decide when it comes to important issues

§ try to be hard working

§ sentimental about the past

§ more concerned about the immediate problems than anything else

§ usually cool and steady, but can get upset easily with an immediate unsolved problem

§ can get moody easily

§ able to handle wide scope of jobs

§ value hard work

§ quick in understanding

§ not highly responsible

tend to be artistic in approach

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Fun Quiz - interesting tricky quiz

(Answers are below)

1.) There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

(2.) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

(3.) Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

(4.) At noon and midnight the hour and minute hands are exactly coincident with each other. How many other times between noon and midnight do the hour and minute hands cross?

(5.) What is the only sport in which the ball is always in the possession of the team on defense, and the offensive team can score without touching the ball?

(6.) What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

(7.) In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

(8.) Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw." They are all common. Name two of them.

(9.) There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name half of them?

(10.) Where are the lakes that are referred to in the "Los Angeles Lakers"?

(11.) There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls -- a walk -- is one way. Name the other six.

(12.) It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?

(13.) How is it possible for a pitcher to make four or more strikeouts in one inning?

(14.) Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet, that begin with the letter "s."

See answers below to see how well you did...

ANSWERS TO QUIZ

(1.) Boxing.
(2.) Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
(3.) Asparagus and rhubarb.
(4.) Ten times (not eleven, as most people seem to think).
(5.) Baseball.
(6.) Strawberry.
(7.) The pear grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
(8.) Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
(9.) Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis,
braces, and ellipses.
(10.) The lakes are in Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers, and kept the name when they moved west.
(11.) Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
(12.) Lettuce.
(13.) If the catcher drops a called third strike, and doesn't throw the batter out at first base, the runner is safe.
(14.) Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings, and so on.

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There are very many things in among us what we think them are not what actually they are.

¨ A guinea pig in not a pig and it does not come from, Guinea. It is a rodent and comes from the western coast of South America.

¨ A blindworm is neither blind nor is it a worm. It is a lizard and has two noticeable eyes.

¨ The coffee berry is not a berry. It is a seed.

¨ There is no soda in soda water. It is water charged with carbonic acid gas.

Panama

hats are not made in Panama, but in Ecuador.

¨ The Hundred Years War last for 116 years.

¨ We get catgut from the animals sheep and horses.

¨ Russians celebrate the October Revolution in the month of November.

¨ Camel’s hair brush is made of squirrel’s fur.

¨ The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after dogs.

¨ King George VI's first name was Albert.

¨ Purple finch is of crimson.

¨ Chinese gooseberries from New Zealand.

¨ The colour of the black box in a commercial airplane is of orange colour.

¨ Flying foxes are not foxes. They are large bats.

¨ There is no camelhair in a camelhair brush. The brush is made of squirrel's hair.

¨ Mustard gas is not a gas. It is also not mustard. It is liquid, which changes quickly to vapour.

¨ Peanuts are not nuts. They are beans.

¨ Sealing wax does not contain any wax. It is made of Venice turpentine and cinnabar.

¨ The blackbird hen is brown.

¨ The blackboards can be blue or green.

¨ Blackberries are green and then red before they are ripe.

¨ There is no butter in buttermilk.

¨ There is no egg in eggplant.

¨ There is neither pine nor apple in pineapple.

¨ There is no ham in hamburger.

¨ Muffins weren't invented in England, French fries in France and Danish pastries in Denmark.

¨ Sweetmeat is made from fruit while sweetbread, which isn't sweet, is made from meat.

¨ The so-called flying snakes of Asia do not actually fly; they glide.

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Know-how of Gold

All that glitters is not gold—a cliché. But prove it wrong! Keep these basics in mind to make sure that what glitters is always gold.

Know your karat

When speaking of jewelleries you must have heard of karat or carat. So what is it and is there a difference between karat and carat? Carat is the word for a unit of weight sued to measure the weight of precious stones; karat is the pureness of gold. 24 kt gold is the purest form of gold and is too soft for making jewellery. To harden it certain metals such as lead and copper are added as alloys. 22kt gold (91.4% of gold) is the next best option. However, even this is too soft for making jewellery with stone settings. In fact it’s often impossible to fashion jewellery in more than 18 kt gold.

What lies in between?

Whenever you remould a gold ornament, the jeweller says that you have lost a large part of the precious metal—common experience—but ever wondered why that happens? Parts of a gold ornament are soldered (joined together) with an alloy of copper and lead. When you melt the ornament, a part of gold dissolves in this alloy and is thus lost. However, these days cadmium is often used in place of copper and lead. Whenever the heated cadmium evaporates, the gold remains behind. Cadmium soldered gold ornaments are generally more expensive than the rest.

What’s your colour?

Bored of the regular golden gold? It’s not necessary that you need to stick to the yellow hue. Add a little colour to it. You can have gold ornaments in white, pink or green. Gold is alloyed with metals such as palladium, silver, and copper to get desired colours.

White gold: It is an alloy of gold and metals such as silver and palladium. White gold can be 18kt, 14kt, 9 kt or any karat. For instance, 18kt yellow gold is made by mixing 75% gold (750 parts per 1000) with 25% (250 parts per 10000) other metals such as copper and zinc.

Rose gold: It is similar to white gold but this is an alloy of gold with silver and copper. Some jewellers also call it pink or red gold, depending on the shade of the ornament.

Green gold: It is another alloy made by leaving the copper put of the alloy mixture, and just having gold and silver. In most cases, it is more of a greenish yellow, rather than green.

Go ahead, grab your choice of the golden treasure trove and reflect the confidence of a woman who knows that she’s at her bejewelled best.

Some Interesting lines

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Ever wondered why the gold effect is the hottest trend this season? We spoke to some of the country’s leading fashion designers for their take on just why it’s suddenly become a golden world. Read on and satisfy your curiosity.

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Celebrities have their own take when it comes to the burnished hue. We caught up with some of our brightest stars to figure our what is it about gold that gets that gleam in their eyes. Read on to find out.

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