KNOWLEDGE IS AMUSING

[1] FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). 

[2] POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. 

[3] MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. 

[4] BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. 

[5] DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped.. 

[6] NEWS refers to information from Four directions

N, E, W, and S. 

[7] AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'. 

[8] 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.. 

[9] JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business. 

[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 Asia, America, Australia, Europe 

[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] Wearing HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 

[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. 

[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] What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? 

Ans. - All invented by women. 

[25] A CROCODILE cannot stick its tongue out. 

[26] A SNAIL can sleep for three years. 

[27] All POLAR BEARS are left handed. 

[28] BUTTERFLIES taste with their feet. 

[29] ELEPHANTS are the only animals that can't jump. 

[30] In the last 4000 years, no new ANIMALS have been domesticated. 

[31] STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 

[32] The human HEART creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 

[33] RATS multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. 

[34] People say "BLESS YOU" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. 

[35] 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. 

So good to bless sneezing person