Knowledge is Really Amusing

1) AG MARK, which some products bear, stems from “Agricultural Marketing”

2) BUS is the short term for “Omnibus” that means everybody.

3) COCA-COLA was originally green.

4) DRAWING ROOM was actually a ‘withdrawing room’ where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix ‘with’ was dropped.

5) Each KING in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: (a) Spades- King David (b) Clubs Alexander the Great (c) Heart Charlemagne and (d) Diamonds-Julius Caesar.

6) FORTNIGHT comes from ‘Fourteen Nights’ (Two Weeks)

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

8) The strongest mussel in the body is the tongue.

9) It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10) JOURNAL is a diary that tells about ‘Journey for a day’ during each Day’s business.

11) JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945. It was named ‘General Purpose Vehicle (GP)’. GP was changed into JEEP later.

12) MOPED is the short term for ‘Motorized Pedaling’.

13) NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S

14) QUEUE comes from ‘Queen’s Quest’. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen’s Quest.

15) RATES multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rates could have over million descendants.

16) STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand. Stewardesses.

17) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letter only on one row of the keyboard.

18) WOMEN blink nearly twice as much as men!!

19) YOU can’t kill yourself beholding your breath.

20) Wearing HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacterial in your ear by 700 times.

21) It is physically impossible for PIGS to look up into the sky.

22) A CROCODILE cannot stick its tongue out.

23) A SNAIL can sleep for three years

24) ALL POLAR BEARS are left-handed.

25) BUTTERFLIES taste with their feet.

26) ELEPHANTS are the only animals that can’t jump.

27) In the last 4000 years, no new ANIMALS have been domesticated.

28) The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

29) The most common name in the world is Mohammad.

30) What do Bullet Proof Vests, Fire Escapes, Windshield Wipers and Laser Printers all have in common? ANS: All invented by women.

31) The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (a) Asia (b) America (c) Australia (d) Europe

32) People say ‘BLESS YOU’ when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

33) 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. So good to bless the sneezing person.

34) TIPS come from “To Insure Prompt Service”. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written “To Insure Prompt Service”. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.