Some interesting facts….

* FORTNIGHT comes from ‘Fourteen Nights’ (Two Weeks).

* POP MUSIC is ‘Popular Music’ shortened.

* MOPED is the short term for ‘Motorized Pedaling’.

* BUS is the short term for ‘Omnibus’ that means everybody.

* 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’.

* 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..

* JOURNAL is a diary that tells about ‘Journey for a day’ during each Day’s business.

* 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 Asia, America, Australia, Europe

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

Answer: 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.

* STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

* 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.

* People say “BLESS YOU” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

* 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.

Source: email (dsj)