1. MOPED is the short term for 'MotorizedPedaling'. 2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
3. BUS isthe short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHTcomes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
5. DRAWING ROOM wasactually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Laterthe prefix 'with' was
dropped..
6. NEWS refers to information fromFour directions N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some productsbear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diarythat tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9.QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people aswaiting to see the Queen. Someone made the
comment Queen's Quest..
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to getPrompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used
to drop coins ina Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise tothe custom of Tips.
11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system.It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named
'GeneralPurpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
12. Coca-Colawas originally green.
13. The most common name in the world isMohammed..
14. The name of all the continents end with the sameletter that they start with.
15. The strongest muscle in the body isthe tongue.
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be madeusing the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! You know why !!!!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19.It is impossible to lickyour elbow.
20.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because whenyou sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
21.It isphysically 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. * If you sneeze too hard,you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you canrupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
23.Eachking in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
o Spades - King David
o Clubs - Alexander the Great,
oHearts – Charlemagne
o Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
24.Horse Statue in a Park…
· If a statue of a person in the parkon 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 aresult of wounds received in battle
· If the horse has all fourlegs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
25.Whatdo bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women..
26.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
27.A snail can sleep for three years.Nice animal, I like it very much………..
28.All polar bears are left handed.
29.Butterflies taste with their feet.
30.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
31.In the last 4000years, no new animals have been domesticated.
32.On average, people fearspiders more than they do death.
33.Shakespeare invented the word'assassination' and 'bump'.
34.Stewardesses is the longest word typed withonly the left hand.
35.The ant always falls over on its right side whenintoxicated.
36.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
37.Thehuman heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
38.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,two rats could have over million descendants.
39.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
40.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
41.Most lipstick contains fish scales..
42.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
3. BUS isthe short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHTcomes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
5. DRAWING ROOM wasactually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Laterthe prefix 'with' was
dropped..
6. NEWS refers to information fromFour directions N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some productsbear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diarythat tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9.QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people aswaiting to see the Queen. Someone made the
comment Queen's Quest..
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to getPrompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used
to drop coins ina Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise tothe custom of Tips.
11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system.It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named
'GeneralPurpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
12. Coca-Colawas originally green.
13. The most common name in the world isMohammed..
14. The name of all the continents end with the sameletter that they start with.
15. The strongest muscle in the body isthe tongue.
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be madeusing the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! You know why !!!!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19.It is impossible to lickyour elbow.
20.People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because whenyou sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
21.It isphysically 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. * If you sneeze too hard,you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you canrupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
23.Eachking in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
o Spades - King David
o Clubs - Alexander the Great,
oHearts – Charlemagne
o Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
24.Horse Statue in a Park…
· If a statue of a person in the parkon 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 aresult of wounds received in battle
· If the horse has all fourlegs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
25.Whatdo bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women..
26.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
27.A snail can sleep for three years.Nice animal, I like it very much………..
28.All polar bears are left handed.
29.Butterflies taste with their feet.
30.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
31.In the last 4000years, no new animals have been domesticated.
32.On average, people fearspiders more than they do death.
33.Shakespeare invented the word'assassination' and 'bump'.
34.Stewardesses is the longest word typed withonly the left hand.
35.The ant always falls over on its right side whenintoxicated.
36.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
37.Thehuman heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
38.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,two rats could have over million descendants.
39.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
40.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
41.Most lipstick contains fish scales..
42.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
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