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A long read, but quite informative:

1. *Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.*

2. *The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.*

3. *The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.*

4. *The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.*

5. *Ants never sleep!*

6. *“I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.*

7. *Coca-Cola was originally green.*

8. *The most common name in the world is Mohammed.*

9. *When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.*

10. *Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.*

11. *There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”*

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

13. *There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.*

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

15. *Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.*

16. *Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.*

17. *Women blink nearly twice as much as men!*

18. *You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.*

20. *The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.*

21. *People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.*

22. *It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky*

23. *The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.*

24. *“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.*

25. *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.*

26. *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.*

27. *It is impossible to lick your elbow.*

28. *111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321*

29. *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 a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.*

30. *What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?*

Ans. - *All invented by women.*

31.Question - *This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?*

 

Ans. - *Honey.*

32. *A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.*

33. *A snail can sleep for three years.*

34. *All polar bears are left handed.*

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

36. *Butterflies taste with their feet.*

37. *Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.*

38. *In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.*

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

40. *Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.*

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

42. *The electric chair was invented by a dentist.*

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

44. *Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.*

45. *Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times*

46. *The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.*

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

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