1 – It is impossible to lick your elbow.
2 – The Coca Cola was originally green.
3 – You can make a cow up stairs but not the lower.
4 – American Airlines saved $ S 40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
5 – The percentage of territory in Africa that is wilderness: 28%.
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
6 – The quack of a duck (quack, quack) does not echo and nobody knows why.
7 – Each king of cards represents a great king from history:
- Spades: King David.
- Clubs: Alexander the Great.
- Hearts: Charlemagne.
- Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
8 – Multiplying 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
9 – If a statue in the park of a person 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 of wounds received in combat, if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
10 – Under the law, interstate highways in the United States requires that one mile in every five is straight. These sections are useful as airstrips in emergencies and war.
11 – The name Jeep comes from the abbreviation of the U.S. military to “General Purpose” Vehicle, or “GP” pronounced in English.
12 – The Pentagon has twice the necessary baths. When built, the law required a dark bathroom and one for whites.
13 – It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
14 – Right-handers on average live nine years longer than lefties.
15 – The average person laughs about 15 times a day (we should improve that.)
16 – Mosquitoes have teeth.
17 – Thomas Alva Edison was afraid of the dark.
18 – Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare are considered the greatest exponents of Spanish and English literature respectively, both died on April 23, 1616 …
19 – It took 22 centuries to calculate the distance between Earth and the Sun (149.4 million km). What if we had known long before someone would have thought 1,000,000,000 multiplied by the height of the pyramid of Cheops at Giza, built 30 centuries before Christ.
20 – The word “cemetery” comes from Greek meaning koimetirion: bedroom.
21 – In ancient England people could not have sex without the consent of the King (unless you were a member of the royal family). When people wanted to have a child should apply for a permit to the monarch, who gave them a plaque to be hung outside his door while relaciones.La board had said “Fornication Under Consent of the King” (FUCK). That is the origin of such famous little word.
22 – During the Civil War, when troops returned to barracks without any casualties, put in a great slate “0 Killed” (zero deaths). From this comes the expression “OK” to say everything is fine.
23 – In the monasteries, while reading the Scriptures in referring to St. Joseph, always said “Pater Putatibus” and simplify “PP.” Thus was born the call “Pepe” to Joseph.
24 – In the New Testament book of Matthew says that “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” The little problem is that St. Jerome, translator of the text, interpreted the word “Kamel” as a camel, when in fact the Greek “Kamel” is one thick rope with which vessels are moored to the docks. Ultimately the meaning of the phrase is the same but what seems more consistent?
25- When the English conquerors arrived in Australia, they were amazed to see some strange animals that gave incredible jumps.
Immediately called a native (indigenous Australians were extremely peaceful) and I tried to ask by signs. Noting that the Indian always said “Kan Chu Ru” adopted the English word “kangaroo” (kangaroo). The linguists determined after meaning, which was very clear, the Indians wanted to say “I do not understand.”
26 – The area known as Mexico’s Yucatan comes from the Spanish conquest when one asked a native as they called there. The Indian said: “Yucatán.” What the Spanish did not know was that he was answering: “I’m not here.”