undeniable facts!

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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

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

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 fr! acture a rib. If you try to suppress a
sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history:

Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

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

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.

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

Answer - All invented by women.

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

Answer - Honey

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

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

Shakespeare invented th! e word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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

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

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

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like Chocolate

Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue

Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck

















And finally 99% of people who read this would try to lick their elbow now.

Forget something?

The first programmer ever was a woman.

Fugu is deadly and peopel die from it every year, the poinson of a Puffer fish, is mainly from it's organs, the amount needed to kill you would fit on a pin head.

The constitution of the US, is written on hemp paper.

The inventor of the Telephone was a heavy cocain user.

Budweiser is NOt the largest beer maker. (A Blgian company is)

Roaches use their poop as a map.

Brazil is the only place on the planet where Portugese (SP?) is spoken natively.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos

You spelled MUhammed wrong

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half


Can't come up wth anymore right now.

heh, i feel special. I did not at any point in reading this thread attempt to lick my elbow.

Howdy.

And if you navigate to the bottom of this page you'll see that er0k made a similar thread containing a few more of these undeniable facts.

i was amazed to find that these are all true. i googled a few of them because i didn't think that they were right, but hmm you do learn something knew every day. ;)

cheers
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... when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.

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I don't think this is true. There was a rumor that if you did a lot of things with your body while sneezing that you could die. I never found any evidence supporting that or that your heart stops when you sneeze.

Here's a good article about sneezing:

http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH...=dmtHMSContent

I've never seen a hippo jump :D

Hey Hey,

I didn't finish reading the list.... I saw three in the first 20 or so that aren't completely true. A few others that are too self-assured... because their are flaws with them.

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

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Norther America and South American don't start and end with the same letter... The best you could do is refer to them as the Americas, then they still don't end with the same letter.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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I know a few double jointed people that can do this... so the word impossible doesn't fit.. Yes it's difficult even for them, but they can do it.

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

Answer - Honey

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Honey develops an awful crust if left for long enough, it's hard and chunky and definately not very tasty... To me that is the same as spoiling...

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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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The strongest muscle is the masseter muscle (back of the jaw). The tongue is made up of four muscles.... I've provided one link but google will show you plenty of others.
http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/hpe/sp...a/masseter.htm

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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

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While technically true... it would be true if it said "You can't kill yourself by holding your breath". The idea I've heard is that you'll black out and start breathing again. What you do is hold your breath in a bathtub/pool.. when you black out you'll find yourself under water, your body takes that first involuntary breath and you're on your way to drowning... holding your breath was the catalyst to death.

This list is from email spam, that has slowly had items removed from it.... (things like barbie's actual dimensions and a ducks quack don't echo.. both of which were also not true)..

Very few of the items in the list are true... as Eg said.. he's never said a hippo jump.. but for example a snail...it doesn't jump... As for Giraffe's (which is spelled wrong in the CnP) and Human's having the same number of neck bones... so.. the giraffe has bigger ones.. most vertibrates have 7 neck bones... In 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.. maybe not on a large scale, but something tells me people didn't keep pet tigers and bob cats back them.. Yet there's a guy outside the city... now it's a one time thing.. but still.. it's kept domesticated..

Peace,
HT

PS: So I read the rest of the list as I typed this just to disprove more of them.

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Matches: China, Sixth Century AD. The first version of the match was invented in 577 AD by impoverished court ladies during a military siege. Hard pressed for tinder during the siege, they could otherwise not start fires for cooking, heating, etc. The matches consisted of little sticks of pinewood impregnated with sulfur. There is no evidence of matches in Europe before 1530.

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http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/sum-inst/links/invent.htm

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At first, tobacco was produced mainly for pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff. Cigars didn't become popular until the early 1800s. Cigarettes, which had been around in crude form since the early 1600s, didn't become widely popular in the United States until after the Civil War

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http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynami...ory/index.html

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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.

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What does it mean if all four legs are off the ground? :what:

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Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue

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I know some people that should have this ability. :george:

Stephanie Kwolek created for DuPont a revolutionary material that is used in bullet-proof vests - a material that it is over 5 times as strong as the same thickness of steel. This exciting product was created in the late 1960's,first marketed in 1971 and originated from a little experimentation and original thinking by Kwolek.

http://www.design-technology.info/inventors/page20.htm



The bulletproof vest was an invention of the Rev. Casimir Zeglen of Chicago, IL developed a bullet proof vest made of silk fabric at the end of the 19th century.

Undeniable, eh?

Gore, he spelled Mohammed right because it can be spelled more than one way like Ashley, Ashleigh, Ashlee, Ashly....

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

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I once read that it came from ancient times. When a person sneezed, they
believed that they were releasing an evil spirit from them. "God Blessed You!"

I once read that if you sneeze at 60mph, you travel 44 feet with your eyes closed, which is quite scary

Also read in New Scientist recently that there are 400 times more bacteria on the average office desk than the seat of a public toilet. Yuck. :mad:

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

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I'm quite skeptical on this one. Systolic blood pressure is usually below 150mm Hg. This is no where near enough pressure to project blood 30 feet...unless one is standing atop a 30 foot building

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Originally posted here by Digoy
Coca-Cola was originally green.

First one on the list is the first one shot down... clicky

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

Proprietory, protereotype, and rupturewort are all real words and can be typed from a single line on a keyboard... and they are longer :)

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

Unless you are using an original Pentium :)

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.

This is absolutely not true. See Snopes for more details on that one... linky here

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

Answer - All invented by women.

Err, Gary Starkweather invented laser printing by adapting Xerox technology with a laser beam... Kevlar was invented by a woman, but the bullet proof vest was invented by other people. She didn't have a clue that Kevlar would be used for that purpose. The windshield wiper patent goes to Mary Anderson 1905. The fire escape ladder was invented by Joseph Winters in 1878.


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

Answer - Honey

Beer doesn't spoil if properly sealed. They have discovered 3000 year old beer in burial chambers in Egypt.


Most lipstick contains fish scales

Only some of them, not most... the ones that have pearlescence or pearl essence listed as an ingredient.

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There are plenty of others on that list that I could pick apart, but I don't have the time or the inclination to bother with it. Just goes to show that you shouldn't believe stuff that comes to you in email ;)

I don't have a link right now... but

the strongest muscle isn't tounge ... but jaw muscles!

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

Answer - Honey

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Neither does white granular sugar. I could continue with others, but I am working on a paper about truth in advertising...
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cheers

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Originally posted here by Digoy

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

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Well i think Vinegar would fit in if you take it as a food...

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Norther America and South American don't start and end with the same letter... The best you could do is refer to them as the Americas, then they still don't end with the same letter.

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Actually, before they decided to name them North and South America, it was just AmericA.



It depends what you define as a continent as there are numerous definitions these days. According to Wikipedia, if you assume there are either 4 or 6 continents then it can be correct that they all start and end with the same letter. Of course not everyone agrees that there are 4 or 6 continents, I always thought there were 5, hence the 5 Olympic rings

7: Antarctica South America North America Europe Asia Africa Australia
6 continents: Antarctica America Europe Asia Africa Australia
6 continents: Antarctica Sth America North America Eurasia Africa Australia
5 continents: Antarctica America Eurasia Africa Australia
5 continents: Antarctica South America Laurasia Africa Australia
4 continents: Antarctica America Africa-Eurasia Australia

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Originally posted here by Digoy
I always thought there were 5, hence the 5 Olympic rings

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I have always been taught that the flags of the countries of the world will have at least one of the olympic rings colours.... whether that is correct or not... I'm not sure.

Hi HT

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In 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.. maybe not on a large scale, but something tells me people didn't keep pet tigers and bob cats back them.. Yet there's a guy outside the city... now it's a one time thing.. but still.. it's kept domesticated..

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Yes, it depends on what they are really trying to say. Certainly things like parrots, budgerigars etc have been domesticated. Snakes, tortoises, turtles, aligators...............are all house pets (Latin: "domus" = "home") and some are pretty common............hell, we have even had to pass laws to protect tortoises!

Even if they are talking about farmed animals, you have ostriches, mink, sable, coypu, kangaroo. Stuff we used to hunt back then, but now farm.

Still, I wish someone would convince my wife that it were true. :D

As for honey, the "crust" you refer to is made up of minute particles of beeswax that gets into the honey during the extraction process. If you remove and discard it, the honey underneath is perfectly OK. ;)

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What does it mean if all four legs are off the ground?

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Old joke - the horse is dead (on it's back with all 4 in the air due to rigor).

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Most lipstick contains fish scales

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So? Some perfumes are made from whale puke. Your point?

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Certainly things like parrots, budgerigars etc have been domesticated. Snakes, tortoises, turtles, aligators...............are all house pets

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Yes, but is an alligator truly domesticated? Can you teach it not to eat its owner, or to fetch a stick?

And hate to tell y'all, but over time honey converts chemically to sugar. The process is very slow, but it occurs. The crust that first forms is the beeswax remnant, true, but later it's just plain crystalline sugar, not honey.

Hi Iceman ,

I don't see your point about honey. It is sugar OK a rather complex cocktail, but still sugar.

As I recall from my beekeeping days, the only real threat was fermentation as it contains wild yeast spores.

As for crystalisation, that will happen with temperature. Stick a jar in the fridge for a couple of days. In fact some honey is processed to make it crystalise.



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Originally posted here by Digoy
Actually, before they decided to name them North and South America, it was just AmericA.



It depends what you define as a continent as there are numerous definitions these days. According to Wikipedia, if you assume there are either 4 or 6 continents then it can be correct that they all start and end with the same letter. Of course not everyone agrees that there are 4 or 6 continents, I always thought there were 5, hence the 5 Olympic rings

7: Antarctica South America North America Europe Asia Africa Australia
6 continents: Antarctica America Europe Asia Africa Australia
6 continents: Antarctica Sth America North America Eurasia Africa Australia
5 continents: Antarctica America Eurasia Africa Australia
5 continents: Antarctica South America Laurasia Africa Australia
4 continents: Antarctica America Africa-Eurasia Australia

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Hey Hey,

There's really no debate... There are 7 continents. Just because People in Europe (according to about.com) are taught that it's simply America... they don't live here... I do.. It's North America and South America.. 7 Continents... not all of them starting and ending with the same letter... very simple..

Peace,
HT

Actually HTRegz, i had geography back in 7th grade in Croatia and we were thought that there is a South and North America (Sjeverna and Južna Amerika)....

I know you said according to about.com, i'm just saying though....

Actually you saying "God bless you" when people sneeze comes from the time of the black death. sneezing was one of the symptoms of the plague. The religious leaders at the time decided that when people would sneeze you should ask God to protect them. Also the childrens nusery rythme "ring-a-ring a rosey" is a direct referance to the black death.

ring-a-ring a rosey (the red rashes that formed on a persons skin)
a pocket full of poseys (It was though that the scent of the posey would protect people from the plauge)
Atishoo-atishoo we all fall down. (sneezeing was the last stage before death).

Yeah that is true, a college teacher told us that once in Literature class...