Some facts...

• Fortnight comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks)...
• Pop Music is actually 'Popular Music' shortened...
• Moped is the short term for 'Motorised Pedalling'...
• Bus is actually 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 - North, East, West, and South...
• Ag-Mark, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'...
• Queue comes from 'Queen's Quest'... Long back a long row of people was waiting to see the Queen... Someone made the comment Queen's Quest...
• Journal is the 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, travellers 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) and was named 'General Purpose' (GP) Vehicle... GP was changed into Jeep later...
• Coca-Cola was originally green...
• The most common name in the world is Mohammad...
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with...
• The strongest muscle in the body is the Tongue...
• Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed 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 Sheikh'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 have in common - All of these were 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...
• Stewardesses 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...