Friday, June 28, 2013

Did you Know....???!!!

  • Dinosaurs sometimes had accidents!
    Quite a few fossil bones have been found with factures in them.
  • Did you know that the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." contains all of the letters of the alphabet
  •  During the Secession War, when troops returned to their cartels without casualties, they would write “0 Killed” on a big plate. That’s the origin of the expression OK.
  • Mosquitoes have teeth.
  • An average person laughs 15 times a day.
  • Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump...luckily :)
  • Cockroaches can live for nine days after loosing their head, and then die from starvation.
  • Right-handed people live 9 years longer than left-handed people, in average.
  • It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
  • Pentagon has two times the number of toilets it needs. When it was built, the law required separate toilets for black and white people.
  • The name Jeep comes the American military abbreviation G.P. - General Purpose vehicle
  • If a statue of a horseman has both horse's legs in the air, the person died in a battle. If only one leg is up, the person died of the wounds from the battle. If all four legs are down, the person died by natural death.
  • Multiply 111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 12 345 678 987 654 321
  • Every king in cards represents one of the great kings: spades – King David, clubs – Alexander the Great, hearts – Carlo the Great, diamonds – Julius Cesar.
  • Duck’s sounds don’t produce echo and nobody knows why.
  • American Airlines saved 40 000 in 1987 by taking out one olive from the salad that was served in first class.
  • Coca Cola was originally green.
  • You cannot suck on your own elbow.
  • Quarter of all the storks in the world live in Poland.
  • In spite of the belief, donkeys are one of the most intelligent Equidae. For example, they use the hair on their chin to see if a fence is electrocuted and they won’t step onto a dangerous place, unless their master steps on it first.
  • The oldest city in France is Marseilles. It was founded by the Greeks in 600 B.C.
  • In Oregon, the law forbids tracking horse races or symphony concerts.
  • In Norfolk, no woman was allowed to go out on the street without a corset. There was a special corset inspector.
  • In Finland, Donald Duck cartoons were forbidden for a long time, because he never wore any underpants.


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