KNOWLEDGE IS AMUSING

[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 North, East, West, and South.


[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  sneezing person