General Facts

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General Knowledge

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

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

*3. The name of the entire continents end with the same letter that they start with.*
 

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

*5. Most lipstick contains fish scales.*
 

*6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on one row of the keyboard.*
 
*7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!*
 
*8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.*
 
*9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.*
 

*10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a millisecond. *
 
*11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.*
 

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

*13. 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.*
 

*14. 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.
 

*15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321 (count out the answer)*
 

*16. 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. *
 

*17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?Answer - All invented by women.*
 

*18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?Answer - Honey*
 
*19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.*
 
*20. A snail can sleep for three years.*
 
*21. All polar bears are left handed.*
 

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

*23. Butterflies taste with their feet.*
 

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

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

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

*27. Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.*
 

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

*29. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. *
 

*30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.*
 
*31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps o squirtblood 30 feet.*
 

*32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could haveover a million descendants. *
 

*33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria inyour ear by 700 times.*

 


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