Interesting Scientific and General Information

July 29, 2011 by Advanced Atlantic Consortium

  • Fortnight comes from ‘fourteen nights’ (two weeks).
  • Pop music is ‘popular music’ shortened.
  • Moped is the short term for ‘motorized pedaling’.
  • Bus is the short term for ‘omnibus’ that means everybody.
  • 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’.
  • 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.
  • Journal is a diary that tells about ‘journey for a day’ during each day’s business.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 asia, America, Australia, Europe
  • 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.
  • Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A stewardess is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  • 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.
  • People say “bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
  • 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

Comments are closed.