Things you probably didn't know...

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

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

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

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

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

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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

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

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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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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.

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

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18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey

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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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20. A snail can sleep for three years.

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21. All polar bears are left handed.

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

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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

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

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27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

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

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

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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

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

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

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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

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37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow ;-)