 - 01 —MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
- 02. —POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
- 03. —BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
- 04. —FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
- 05. —DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
- 06. —NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
- 07. —AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
- 08. —JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
- 09. —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..
- 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.
- 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. —People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
- 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. 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 cards represents a great king from history.
- —Spades - King David
- —Clubs - Alexander the Great,
- —Hearts – Charlemagne
- —Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
- 24. —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.
- 25. —What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
- 26. —A crocodile cannot stick its tongue 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 that can't jump.
- 31. —In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- 32. —On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- 33. —Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- 34. —Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- 35. —The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- 36. —The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- 37. —The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
- 38. —Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants
- 39. —Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- 40. —The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- 41. —Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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