Secrets you need to know!

1. The most common name in the world is Muhammad.


2. Coca-Cola was originally green.


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


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


5. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!


6. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.


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


8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.


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


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


11. 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.


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


13. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


14. Each King on playing cards represent a great King from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; Diamonds - Julius Caesar.


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


16. A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with its two front legs in the air means the soldier died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the soldier died of injuries from battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes.


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


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


19. Question - If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? Ans. - One thousand.


20. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


21. A snail can sleep for three years.


22. All polar bears are left handed.


23. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.


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


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


26. Butterflies taste with their feet.


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


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


29. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the "honeymoon".


30. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.


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


32. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump".


33. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight!".


34. Thomas Edison who invented electricity was afraid of the dark.


35. In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".


36. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.


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


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


39. Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.


40. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


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


42. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.


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


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


45. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


46. Most lipstick contains fish scales.


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


48. During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read "0 Killed". From here we get the expression "O.K." which means all is good.


49. The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek "koimetirion" which means dormitory.


50. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.


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


52. When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with "Kan Ghu Ru", the English then adopted the word "kangaroo". What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was "we don't understand you", "kan ghu ru".


53. A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. It only dies because it cannot eat.


54. A duck's quack has no echoe, and nobody knows why.


55. Starfish have no brains.


56. Mosquitoes have teeth.


57. Humans and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.


58. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow...