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  • GreenBeingNancy
    GreenBeingNancy said 2 months Edit Delete

    I received the same presentation today but mine ended at Slide 24 with message that 80% of people who read this will try to suck heir elbow. Why try to suck elbow? It is the most likely place to have food stuck on while eating with them on table?

  • sitinorihan
    sitinorihan said 2 months Edit Delete

    THANKS 4 SHARING THE INFO....

  • guestb1f625
    guestb1f625 said 3 months Edit Delete

    There's a lot of bullshit in this 'Did you know?' quiz. Some 'facts' are proven wrong and some are just unverified.



    2. There are thousands of animals that cannot jump: worms, snakes, fish, etc. etc. Maybe the only 4-legged mammal (dolphins are mammals too but cannot jump, per se) but I wouldn't be too sure about that either.

    3. The tongue has 16 muscles, none of which is the body's strongest.

    5. 'Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying'? Did the statistician only interview arachnophobics? Even then, I find it very unlikely!

    10. If 'Humans and Dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure' then how come pigs have 30 minutes orgasms? (Boy, I wish I was a pig! J )

    11. A duck's quack has no echoe? Debatable: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3086890.stm

    12. 'Each King on playing cards represents a King in real history'. Assigning identities to cards was a practice unique to French for a while in a distant past, had nothing to do with David, Alexander the Great or Julius Cesar (who was a Roman Dictator, not a king) and was discontinued in the 18th century. The figures on modern playing cards are not any more real than the kings and queens in the chess set.

    13. Closing your eyes when you sneeze comes naturally and everybody follows the natural reflex but it's not impossible to sneeze with your eyes open if you really put your mind to it.

    16. The thing with the 'number of horse legs in the air' code in statues is false. There are lots and lots of statues that don't follow the rule out there. Besides, there are more ways heroes can die than horses have legs, even assuming they can have 3 or 4 of them legs in the air. Romanian hero Mihai Viteazul was assasinated, which doesn't qualify as combat, injury from combat or natural cause. (His statue horse has 1 leg in the air)

    20. The origin of the F word as 'Fornication Under Consent of the King' is false. The very thought of people asking the King's permission to f..k is hilarious!

    21. Same for 'kangaroo'.

    23. Same for 'OK'

    22. There are a lot of your body parts that you cannot suck. Why does the elbow qualify as such an interesting fact?

  • grahairs
    grahairs said 6 months Edit Delete

    Fascinating pps - thanks for sharing it with us! Best wishes, Graham

  • balazs1987
    balazs1987 said 2 years Edit Delete

    It was very interesting I had to read it many times because I did not want to believe few things. These facts can be very useful in a dialogue when you want to say something interesting.

  • dlivingstone
    dlivingstone said 2 years Edit Delete

    This is a nice story but totally untrue... read the wikipedia entry for this word for a whole load of other supposed (and untrue) origins of the word.

  • pureclone
    pureclone said 2 years Edit Delete

    Cool Facts.
    I think you should also quote the source of these facts, this would make it more authentic.

  • YolandaCrisostomo
    YolandaCrisostomo said 2 years Edit Delete

    I like your slideshow. So interesting to know how things come about. Thanks!

  • YolandaCrisostomo
    YolandaCrisostomo said 2 years Edit Delete

    I read Whoopi Goldberg book and she says it means 'Fornication under (or with) carnal knowledge' and people would be put in this contraption with their head and hands sticking out with the sign on them in the public square...if I remember correctly. I'm sure there's all kinds of history behind that word.

  • YolandaCrisostomo
    YolandaCrisostomo said 2 years Edit Delete

    Crazy how that happens. Just like the Native Americans were called Indians when really they aren't Indians. Funny how even though the word is wrong it carries on because people just get used to it.

  • dinnyes
    dinnyes said 2 years Edit Delete

    Very, very nice!

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    1. Slide 1: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… The muscles in your heart have the strength to shoot your blood 10 meters in the air?
    2. Slide 2: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
    3. Slide 3: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… The body’s strongest muscle is our tongue
    4. Slide 4: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying
    5. Slide 5: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… All polar bears are left handed
    6. Slide 6: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue
    7. Slide 7: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Butterflies taste with their feet
    8. Slide 8: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… A cockroach can live 9 days without it’s head. It only dies because it cannot eat.
    9. Slide 9: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… A duck’s quack has no echoe, and nobody knows why
    10. Slide 10: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Each King on playing cards represent a King in real history: Spades: King David. Clubs: Alexander The Great. Hearts: Charlemagne. Diamonds: Julius Cesar.
    11. Slide 11: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… It is impossible to sneeze with your eye’s open
    12. Slide 12: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Multiplying 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
    13. Slide 13: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Starfish have no brains
    14. Slide 14: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with it’s 2 feet in the air means the soldier died in combat. If the horse has only 1 foot in the air, the soldier died of injuries from combat. If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes.
    15. Slide 15: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Mosquitoes have teeth
    16. Slide 16: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
    17. Slide 17: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… The word \"cemetery\" comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory
    18. Slide 18: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… In ancient England, people could not have sex without consent from the King. When people wanted to have a child, they had to solicit a permission to the monarchy, in turn they would supply a plaque to hang on their door when they had sexual relations. The plaque read … \"Fornication Under Consent of the King\" (F.U.C.K.). This is the origin of the word.
    19. Slide 19: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that 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’’.
    20. Slide 20: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… It is impossible to suck your elbow.
    21. Slide 21: DID YOU KNOW ….. SABIAS QUE… During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read \"0 Killed\". From here we get the expression \"O.K.\" which means all is good.

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