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DYK

gwapo ko...

[kit_kat]

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute. ---

[kit_kat]

DYK:

The seven wonders of the ancient world were: ... 1. Egyptian Pyramids at Giza ... 2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon ... 3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia ... 4. Colossus of Rhodes - or huge bronze statue near the Harbor of Rhodes that honored the sun god Helios ... 5. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus ... 6. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus ... 7. Lighthouse at Alexandria.

WHilE--

the new 7 Wonders of the World are:
1.The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá (before 800 A.D.) Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
2. Christ Redeemer (1931) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3. The Roman Colosseum (70 - 82 A.D.) Rome, Italy
4. The Great Wall of China (220 B.C and 1368 - 1644 A.D.) China
5. Machu Picchu (1460-1470), Peru
6. Petra (9 B.C. - 40 A.D.), Jordan
7. The Taj Mahal (1630 A.D.) Agra, India

[kit_kat]

DYK: The worldwide "Spanish Flu" epidemic which broke out in 1918 killed more than 30 million people in less than a year's time. ....

-makes you think twice about the aH1N1... hihihi

[acecrystal]

In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.

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Do you know that:

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They are all invented by women.
20. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? It is Honey.
21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
22. A snail can sleep for three years.
23. All polar bears are left handed.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
25. Butterflies taste with their feet.
26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like chocolate.
40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue.
41. Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck.

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Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.

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An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has 300.

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A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per hour.

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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

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You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

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Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.

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Your feet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.

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Theres more sweat glands on your feet than any other part of your body. An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.

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The human brain is 80% water.

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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

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Laugh and you’ll burn up three and a half calories, no joke.

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An eyelash lives about 5 months.

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Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

[j.alob]

grabeh daghana sad. gagmay gagmaya lang para makuha.. gamay raka ayo kug otok..

DYK

Albert Einstein - nahagbong sa entrance exam

[j.alob]

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

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