Amazing but useless facts

[dimpy.handa]

1. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

2. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

3. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

4. What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

5 ."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

6. "Rhythms" is the longest English word without a vowel.

7. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

8. A cockroach can live 9 days with its head cut off!

9. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

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

 

[vardhanvishnug]

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

 

[Hiral.s]

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

A snail can sleep for three years

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

If you hold your breath, you will not die. You will faint and start breathing again.

The average person laughs 10 times a day.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

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

 

[Hiral.s]

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

 

[sandy1207]

Accenture – from "Accent on the future". The
name Accenture was proposed by a company
employee in Norway as part of an internal name
finding process (BrandStorming). Before January
1, 2001, the company was called Andersen
Consulting.
 Acer – Born as Multitech International in 1976, the
company changed its name to Acer in 1987. The
Latin word for “sharp, acute, able and facile”
 Adidas – from the name of the founder Adolf
(Adi) Dassler.
 Adobe Systems – from the Adobe Creek that ran
behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.
 Akai – named for its founder, Masukichi Akai.
 Akamai – from the Hawaiian word akamai
meaning smart or clever; the company defines it as
"intelligent, clever and cool".

 

[Paramjeet_1988]

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( We know you gonna try this !!! )

A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz ?