QUEER FACTS TO KNOW DINESH VORA
[1]
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
[2]
40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of "Happy Meals".
[3]
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
[4]
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
[5]
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
[6]
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
[7]
Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
[8]
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
[9]
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
[10]
Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
[11]
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
[12]
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
[13]
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand.
[14]
Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
[15]
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
[16]
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
[17]
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
[18]
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
[19]
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
[20]
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
[21]
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its
eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
[22]
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
[23]
The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
[24]
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
[25]
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
[26]
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
[27]
Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".
[28]
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
[29]
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
[30]
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head..
[31]
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
[32]
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines
[33]
Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
[34]
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
[35]
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
[36]
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes"
in Sri Lanka
[37]
There are more chickens than people in the world.
[38]
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
[39]
There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. .
[40]
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
[41]
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
[42]
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the
Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
[43]
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
[44]
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
[45]
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
[46]
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses
and ears Never stop growing.
[47]
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
[48]
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
[49]
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
[50]
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
[51]
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
[52]
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
[53]
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a
Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
[54]
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
[55]
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
[56]
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
[57]
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three
consecutive Double letters.
[58]
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left
handed People do.
[59]
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
[60]
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line
Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
[61]
China has more English speakers than the United States
[62]
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
[63]
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood
vessels.
[64]
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
[65]
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
[66]
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
[67]
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
[68]
The longest place name still in use is:
"Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu"
a New Zealand hill.
[69]
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu
at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
[70]
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had
positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up
radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
[71]
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
[72]
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged
during a French kiss.
[73]
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
[74]
Coca-Cola was originally green.
[75]
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
[76]
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that
they start with.
[77]
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
[78]
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
[79]
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
[80]
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
[81]
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
[82]
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Also,it was believed in olden times that the sneeze expelled an evil spirit.
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