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i dont know if anyone saw this topic on sunday league (or if anyone plays it), but this was a topic on there and here are the results.

I've had these in my email for years.

1) Coca-Cola was originally green.
2) The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
6) Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
7) You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Cool It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9) People say 'Bless you' when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
10) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
11) The 'sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
12) 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.
13) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

i) Spades - King David

ii) Clubs - Alexander the Great,

iii) Hearts - Charlemagne

iv) Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
14) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
15) 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.
16) What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.
17) Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?

Ans. - Honey
1Cool A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
19) A snail can sleep for three years.
20) All polar bears are left handed.
21) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
22) Butterflies taste with their feet.
23) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
24) In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
25) On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
26) Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
27) Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
2Cool The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
29) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
30) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
31) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
32) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
33) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
34) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
35) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
36) And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

feel free to add your own...

Actually I disagree with one of your facts. Number 23 states that the elephant is the only animal that can't jump. I'm not sure that's true. Try to picture a snail jumping.

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


only the first 107 times I read that :p

Actually I disagree with one of your facts. Number 23 states that the elephant is the only animal that can't jump. I'm not sure that's true. Try to picture a snail jumping.
oh Snails can jump they just choose not too *nods*

i dont believe number 12 for a second

oh Snails can jump they just choose not too *nods*
No, they can fly, not jump.

i dont know if anyone saw this topic on sunday league (or if anyone plays it), but this was a topic on there and here are the results.

I've had these in my email for years.

1) Coca-Cola was originally green.
2) The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3) The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

Oceania?

4) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
6) Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
7) You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Cool It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9) People say 'Bless you' when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

It is from the black plague surely. When sneezing was one of the first symptoms of the plague, or illness in general. Bless you, meaning "I hope you don't die."

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

hmm.

11) The 'sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
12) 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.
13) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

i) Spades - King David

ii) Clubs - Alexander the Great,

iii) Hearts - Charlemagne

iv) Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
14) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
15) 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.

Wrong. This is covered somewhere on Snopes.

16) What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.
17) Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?

Ans. - Honey

Salt?

1Cool A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
19) A snail can sleep for three years.
20) All polar bears are left handed.
21) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
22) Butterflies taste with their feet.
23) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
24) In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

This is wrong.

25) On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
26) Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
27) Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
2Cool The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
29) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
30) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
31) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
32) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
33) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
34) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
35) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
36) And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.


:D

Oceania?
not a continent (arguable)


15 is definately wrong.

not a continent (arguable)

It is in the British school system (or my school anyway).

i dont believe number 12 for a second
You should, I have indeed cracked a rib from sneezing
ofcourse that rib was weak from being previously cracked

Salt?


Salt is a mineral, so I guess it doesnt count

No, they can fly, not jump.
Only when thrown

YAY for #4!!!

*Drools*

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


:eek: *Confesses*

I really did try just now....

YAY for #4!!!

*Drools*
Do you need a little extra proof? ;)

I heard that the 'bless you' thing started because people used to think you lost a bit of your soul ach time you sneezed and that you needed a blessing to get it back.

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


:eek: *Confesses*

I really did try just now....
any luck?

Do you need a little extra proof? ;)


*nods like crazy*
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (in Scooby Doo voice)

any luck?


No unfortunately......*curses*

In 49 states (In the U.S.) 84% of people say 'Oh Sh!t' before getting into an accedent. In Texas 98% say 'Hold my beer. Watch this!' :D

Einstein's brain was slightly smaller than average.

Some cool little facts in there. However:
4) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.That should be for its size, I'm sure. It also heals really quickly, but I don't have any stats on that, just observation.
16) What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.Ehh, not that impressive a fact -- I'm sure there are indeed many things invented by women. This "fact" suggests that everything but those 4 were invented by men.
23) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.See previous commentators. The only mammal that can't jump, perhaps, or the only land mammal that can't jump (sure dolphins can, but a manatee?)
25) On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.I strongly suspect that this is simply a case of manipulating survey information. When asked about their biggest phobias, most people probably won't jump straight to "Death", or even consider it a "phobia" at all. Ask people if they'd rather you dropped a spider on them or shot them in the head, I think most would go for the spider.
36) And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.Well, I don't want to be left out....

*nods like crazy*
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (in Scooby Doo voice)
*lifts a can of paint with his tongue and makes his tongue do curl ups with it...*

ith thith wath you wanthed? :p

The strongest muscle in your body is probably in your heart or in the muscles working the lungs. Try moving your tongue as much as your heart beats...

The strongest muscle in your body is probably in your heart or in the muscles working the lungs. Try moving your tongue as much as your heart beats...
*Homer Simpson enters the room*

Homer: What about the human wang? I saw a guy lift a can of paint with his once!

I heard that the 'bless you' thing started because people used to think you lost a bit of your soul ach time you sneezed and that you needed a blessing to get it back.
I'm pretty sure it was because it signalled the onset of disease, so saying bless you was like saying get better (with the lords health).

In German, it is gesundheit. Which I believe mean 'good health.' Same thing, wishing the person to get better after showing an obvious symptom for a propably terminal disease.

*lifts a can of paint with his tongue and makes his tongue do curl ups with it...*

ith thith wath you wanthed? :p


(no thats not what i had in mind ;) )

but *faints* anyway

The strongest muscle in your body is probably in your heart or in the muscles working the lungs. Try moving your tongue as much as your heart beats...

Isn't tongue working all the time? Isn't it possible that you
can choke on your tongue if unconcious? It "relaxes"?

No unfortunately......*curses*
well keep at it

36) And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.While I did not on this occasion, I have been known to try, and I get much closer (within around 10mm, on a good day) to touching the [extreme point/tip of the] 'outside knob' of the elbow (which I assume you mean, given touching the inside of the elbow isn't difficult) by twisting the arm in the opposite direction to that which most people try... Someone with a slightly longer tongue (or a Martin Riggs-style dislocation of shoulder) might easily manage this...

Regarding the posture of the horse, whether it was originally a standard or not, I have correlated a significant number of statues to this fact, so it may have become a standard, though never universally applied.

Also, I can type 'antidisestablishmentarianism' with my left hand, though I suspect you mean "using 'best typing practice' method of hand placement..." :)
(I can also type Llanfairpwchgwynygychgogerychwyrndrbwllllantysiliogogogoch with my left hand, and just have done [despite the risks of an induced typo by doing so], but to announce the fact would be showing off... :)

As for the "things invented by women", it's true women have invented other things, the question (immediately answerd, of course) was looking for the commonality between them, not what was special about those four things amongst the whole of human invention. (Like "Q: What have 2, 5, 11 and 53 got in common?" "A: They are all primes". Doesn't disallow 3 being a prime.)