General Awareness 2

1. Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
2. The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
3. A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
4. Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
5. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
6. Ants can live up to 16 years.
7. In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
8. The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
9. Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
10. Coca-Cola was originally green.

11. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
13. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
15. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
16. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
17. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
18. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
19. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
20. People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
    
    
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs -Alexander the Great, Hearts ,Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
24. 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.
25. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
26. The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.
27. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
28. A snail can sleep for three years.
29. All polar bears are left handed.
30. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
    
    
31. Butterflies taste with their feet.
32. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
33. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
34. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
35. The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
38. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
39. A baby bat is called a pup.
40. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
    
    
41. A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
42. It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .