1 MOPED is the shortterm for 'Motorized
Pedaling'.
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music'shortened.
3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus'that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'FourteenNights' (Two Weeks).
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 Fourdirections N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some products bear,stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'.Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made thecomment Queen's Quest..
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure PromptService'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelersused 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 Gearsystem. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'GeneralPurpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
12. Coca-Cola was originally green.
13. The most common name in the world isMohammed..
14. The name of all the continentsend with the same letter that they start with.
15. The strongest muscle in the body isthe tongue.
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word thatcan be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much asmen!!
18. You can't kill yourself by holdingyour breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20.. People say "Bless you" when yousneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
21. It is physically impossible for pigsto look up into the sky.
22. The "sixth sick sheik's sixthsheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.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.
23. Each king in a deck of playing cardsrepresents a great king from history.
o Spades - King David
oClubs - Alexander the Great,
o Hearts – Charlemagne
oDiamonds - Julius Caesar.
24. Horse Statue in a Park…
If a statue of a person in the parkon a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg inthe air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
If the horse has all four legs onthe ground, the person died of natural causes.
25. What do bullet proof vests, fireescapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - Allinvented by women.
26. A crocodile cannot stick itstongue out.
27. A snail can sleep for three years.
28. All polar bears are left handed.
29. Butterflies taste with their feet.
30. Elephants are the only animals thatcan't jump.
31. In the last 4000 years, no newanimals have been domesticated.
32. On average, people fear spiders morethan they do death.
33. Shakespeare invented the word'assassination' and 'bump'.
34. Stewardesses is the longest wordtyped with only the left hand.
35. The ant always falls over on itsright side when intoxicated.
36. The electric chair was invented by adentist.
37. The human heart creates enoughpressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
38. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18months, two rats could have over million descendants.
39. Wearing headphones for just an hourwill increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
40. The cigarette lighter was inventedbefore the match.
41. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music'shortened.
3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus'that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'FourteenNights' (Two Weeks).
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 Fourdirections N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some products bear,stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'.Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made thecomment Queen's Quest..
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure PromptService'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelersused 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 Gearsystem. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'GeneralPurpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
12. Coca-Cola was originally green.
13. The most common name in the world isMohammed..
14. The name of all the continentsend with the same letter that they start with.
15. The strongest muscle in the body isthe tongue.
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word thatcan be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much asmen!!
18. You can't kill yourself by holdingyour breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20.. People say "Bless you" when yousneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
21. It is physically impossible for pigsto look up into the sky.
22. The "sixth sick sheik's sixthsheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.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.
23. Each king in a deck of playing cardsrepresents a great king from history.
o Spades - King David
oClubs - Alexander the Great,
o Hearts – Charlemagne
oDiamonds - Julius Caesar.
24. Horse Statue in a Park…
If a statue of a person in the parkon a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg inthe air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
If the horse has all four legs onthe ground, the person died of natural causes.
25. What do bullet proof vests, fireescapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - Allinvented by women.
26. A crocodile cannot stick itstongue out.
27. A snail can sleep for three years.
28. All polar bears are left handed.
29. Butterflies taste with their feet.
30. Elephants are the only animals thatcan't jump.
31. In the last 4000 years, no newanimals have been domesticated.
32. On average, people fear spiders morethan they do death.
33. Shakespeare invented the word'assassination' and 'bump'.
34. Stewardesses is the longest wordtyped with only the left hand.
35. The ant always falls over on itsright side when intoxicated.
36. The electric chair was invented by adentist.
37. The human heart creates enoughpressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
38. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18months, two rats could have over million descendants.
39. Wearing headphones for just an hourwill increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
40. The cigarette lighter was inventedbefore the match.
41. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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