Did U ever knew this ?

• MOPED is the short term for ‘Motorized Pedaling’.
• POP MUSIC is ‘Popular Music’ shortened.
• BUS is the short term for ‘Omnibus’ that means everybody.
• FORTNIGHT comes from ‘Fourteen Nights’ (Two Weeks).
• DRAWING ROOM was actually a ‘withdrawing room’ where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix ‘with’ was dropped..
• NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
• AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from ‘Agricultural Marketing’.
• JOURNAL is a diary that tells about ‘Journey for a day’ during each Day’s business.
• 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..
• 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.
• 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.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on 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.
• 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.

• Horse Statue in a Park…

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? Ans. – All invented by women.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• 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 the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
• Stewardesses is 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.
• 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.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the matchbox.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales