Trivia #01

Some are old, but still some are very informative and interesting..
Makes you feel a notch smarter than the one sitting beside you...

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =12,345,678,987,654,321

4. 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 all four legs on the ground,the person died of natural causes.

5. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the
letter "A"? Answer - One thousand; Note: One Hundred "And" One etc. cannot be
included because 'AND' is not a number.

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

7. Q. This is the only food that will not spoil even when not refrigerated. What is
this?...........Answer: Honey

8. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

9. A snail can sleep for three years.

10. All polar bears are left handed.

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

12. Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

15. Michael Jordan gets more money from Nike annually than ALL of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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

17. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

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

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

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

21. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

22. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

30. Nobody in recorded human history has ever succeeded in killing himself or herself by
trying to hold his or her breath.

31. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

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

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

35. If you sneeze hard, you may fracture a rib. If you suppress a sneeze, you may rupture a
blood vessel in your head or neck.

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

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

38. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

39. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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

And finally..about 90% of people who will read this through line 31 will try to lick their
elbow... have a nice day!