General Knowledge - Did you know?

ANIMALS

Butterflies

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Crocodile

Crocodiles can not stick out their tongue.

Duck

A duck’s quack has no echoes, and nobody knows why.

Elephant

Elephants are the only animal which can not jump.

Polar Bears

All polar bears are left handed.

Spider

Peoples are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying.

Starfish

Starfish have no brain.

HUMAN BEINGS

Fear

Thomas Edison was afraid of darkness, he was American inventor, he developed many devices including, phonograph, the motion picture camera and a long lasting, electric light bulb.      

Sneezing

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Tongue

The body’s strongest muscle is our tongue. 

WORDS AND NUMBERS

Cemetery

The word cemetery comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory.

Kangaroo

When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that could jumped extremely high and far.  They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with “Kan Ghu Ru” the English then adopted the word “Kangaroo”. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was we don’t understand you “Kan Ghu Ru”.

Multiplying

Multiplying 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345, 678, 987, 654, 321

OK

During the historic civil wars, when troops returned back without any casualties, writing was put up so all can see which read “0 Killed” from here we get the expression “OK” which means all is good.  

MISCELLANEOUS

Playing Cards “Kings”

Each King on playing cards represents a King in real history,

Clubs: Alexander the Great

Diamonds: Julius Cesar

Hearts: Charlemagne

Spades: Kind David

Statues

A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with its two feet in the air means the soldier died in combat.

If the horse has only one foot in the air, means that the soldier died of injuries from combat.

If the horse has all four feet on the ground, means that the soldier died of natural causes.