DID YOU KNOW THAT -------

1. Neither letter 'b' nor 'c' appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999.

(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion.)

2. Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.

3.The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

4.There are 31 billion searches on Google every month.

5.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

6. The thing responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.

7.The " typewriter " is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

8. The Vatican is the world's smallest country, at 0.16 square miles.

9. Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.

10. All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

11 . Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

12. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.

Check These Facts Out...Very interesting.

[1] FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).

[2] POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.

[3] MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.

[4] BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.

[5] DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..

[6] NEWS refers to information from Four directions
N, E, W, and S.

[7] AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.

[8] QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..

[9] JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.

[10] TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.

[11] JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.

[12] Coca-Cola was originally green.

[13] The most common name in the world is Mohammed..

[14] The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with Asia, America, Australia, Europe

[15] The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

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

[17] Women BLINK nearly twice as much as men!!

[18] You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

[19] It is impossible to lick your elbow.

[20] Wearing HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

[21] It is physically 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.

[23] Each KING in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

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

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

Ans. - All invented by women.

[25] A CROCODILE cannot stick its tongue out.

[26] A SNAIL can sleep for three years.

[27] All POLAR BEARS are left handed.

[28] BUTTERFLIES taste with their feet.

[29] ELEPHANTS are the only animals that can't jump.

[30] In the last 4000 years, no new ANIMALS have been domesticated.

[31] STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

[32] The human HEART creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

[33] RATS multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

[34] People say "BLESS YOU" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

[35] 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. So good to bless the sneezing person.

10 Rules of Happy Marriage

10 Rules of Happy Marriage 1. Never both be angry at the same time. 2.Never yell at each other unless the house is on fire. 3. If one of you has to win an argument, let it be your mate. 4.If you must criticize, do it lovingly. 5. Never bring up mistakes of the past. 6. Neglect the whole world, rather than each other. 7. Never go to sleep with an argument unsettled. 8. At least once every day say a kind or complementary word to your life partner. 9. When you have done something wrong, admit it and ask forgiveness. 10. Remember it takes two to make a quarrel. Advice from a couple who reached their 50th Anniversary and successfully made their marriage a promise for life