MARUISM

• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

• The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

• Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

• A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

• Mona Lisa had no eyebrows.

• When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

• “I Am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

• Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

More Interesting Facts:

• Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
• A rat last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise, it will digest itself.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• Forty percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• The “spot” on 7-Up comes fom its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
• On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are siblings.
• Chocolate kills dogs. True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces of chocolate is enough to kill a small-sized dog.
• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII if they should be captured, they could soak the cards in water and unfold these to reveal a map for escape.
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesnt wear pants.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars were given out during WWII were made of wood.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

DO YOU KNOW?

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed .
3. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
4. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
7. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
10. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
11. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
12. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a vessel in your head or neck and die.
13. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

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

14. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
15. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
16. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
17. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
18. Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans: - Honey
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out ..
20. A snail can sleep for three years .
21. All polar bears are left handed.
22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27.Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match ..
35. Most lipstick contains fish scales .
36. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.