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> Know some
> unknown history of words.................................
>
>
> MOPED is the short term for
> 'Motorized Pedaling'.
>
> POP MUSIC
> is 'Popular Music' shortened.
>
>
> BUS is the
> short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
>
>
> FORTNIGHT
> comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two
> Weeks).
>
> 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'..
>
> JOURNAL is a diary
> that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each
> Day's business.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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 thecustom 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.
>
>
>
> Interesting Facts
>
>
>
> * 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.
> * 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.
> *
> People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
> when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
>
> * 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. * 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.
>
> * 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.
>
> * 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.
>
> * What do
> bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and
> laser printers all have in common?
>
> Ans. - 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.
>
> * On average,
> people fear spiders more than they do
> death.
>
> * Shakespeare
> invented the word 'assassination' and
> 'bump'.
>
>
>
>
> *
> Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left
> hand.
>
> * The ant
> always falls over on its right side when
> intoxicated.
>
> *
> The electric chair was invented by a
> dentist.
>
> * 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.
>
> * Wearing
> headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
> your ear by 700 times.
>
> * The
> cigarette lighter was invented before the
> match.
>
> * Most lipstick
> contains fish scales.
>
> * Like fingerprints,
> everyone's tongue print is
> different
>
>
>
> Send
> this to as many people as you
> can so that you can waste their time. They will
> keep on reading this.
