Monday, March 19, 2012

KNOWLEDGE IS AMUSING

[1] FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).

[2]
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. 


[3]
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. 


[4]
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. 


[5]
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped.. 


[6]
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W, and S. 


[7]
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'. 


[8]
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.


[9]
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business. 


[10]
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. 


[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]
Coca-Cola was originally green. 


[13] The most common name in the world is
Mohammed..  


[14] The name of all the 
continents end with the same letter that they start with Asia, America, Australia, Europe 


[15] The strongest muscle in the body is the
TONGUE. 


[16]
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 


[17] Women 
BLINK nearly twice as much as men!! 


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


[19] It is impossible to 
lick your elbow


[20] Wearing 
HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 


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


[22] The "
Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. 


[23] Each 
KING in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David 
Clubs - Alexander the Great, 
Hearts - Charlemagne 
Diamonds - Julius Caesar. 


[24] What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? 

Ans. - All invented by women


[25]
A CROCODILE cannot stick its tongue out. 


[26]
A SNAIL can sleep for three years. 


[27]
All POLAR BEARS are left handed. 


[28]
BUTTERFLIES taste with their feet. 


[29]
ELEPHANTS are the only animals that can't jump. 


[30] In the last 4000 years, no new 
ANIMALS have been domesticated. 


[31]
STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 


[32]  The human 
HEART creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 


[33]
RATS multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.


[34] People say 
"BLESS YOU" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. 


[35] 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