AMAZING FACTS:

AMAZING FACTS:

* The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.

* No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. 

* Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. 

* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

* Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

* The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

* The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE.

* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

* Apples, not caffeine,are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

*Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN.

* The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first ' Marlboro Man'.

* Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE.

* PEARLS DISSOLVE IN VINEGAR.

* The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola ,and Budweiser, in that order.

* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but, not downstairs.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo,and no one knows why.

* Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now !)

* Turtles can breathe through their butts.

*FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).

*POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.

*MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.

*BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.

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

*NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W, and S.

*AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.

*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.

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

*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.

*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.

*Coca-Cola was originally green.

*The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

*The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with Asia, America, Australia, Europe.

*The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

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

*Women BLINK nearly twice as much as men!

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

*It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

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

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