Did You Know... Facts You Should Know

Did You Know... Facts You Should Know

There was a rumour that Stephen Hawking would run over the toes of people he didn't like, he denied this rumour by stating, "It is a malicious rumour". Then he added "and I'll run over anyone who repeats it".

Some farmers in Bangdalesh have switched from raising fowls to raising ducks. Why? If a catastrophic flood comes, ducks float! 

The Hindus of India once believed that the Earth was a huge bowl (to keep the oceans from falling off) held up by giant elephants standing on long pillars. No one back then ever thought to ask what the pillars were standing on!

The Egyptians thought the world was in the shape of a rectangle and that the heavans were held up by four giant pillars? They also warned sailors not to go to far away or you just might row off the giant rectangle called Earth. When the Queen of England heard this she sent 4 ships south, north, east and west to search for these "pillars". When they didn't find any (because the world is in the shape of a sphere) they questioned the Eygptians and they told her the pillars must have been farther than they predicted! Clever weren't they?

Sir Edmund was the first to ever climb Mt. Everest and return. 

Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!

In 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon, hired a Hitman to kill his 51year old wife. His wife ended up killing the assassin with her bare hands! When Susan Kuhnhausen had her hands on his neck she asked him, "Tell me who sent you here and I will call you the f*cking ambulance!"

The sentence: "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog", uses every letter in
the English language.
"I Am" is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

 The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.

There are only two words in the English
language that have all five vowels in order:
"abstemious" and "facetious."T

The name of all the continents end with

the same letter that they start with.

There are two credit cards for every
person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can
be made using the letters only on one row
of the keyboard.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being  the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades- King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great;
Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

Have you noticed that, of the statues of great people in history sitting on a horse, some horses have both front limbs in the air, some have one front limb in the air, and other horses have all their hoofs on the ground. You haven't? Think about it now.
If the 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 a all four legs on the ground, the person died of a natural cause.
That's their meaning.

In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Just one olive each!

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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