A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

Cats urine glows under a black light.

Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The average secretarys left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.

An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish havent got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

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

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be setin individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep
my toothbrush in the living room now.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood
plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747’s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.

American Airlines saved $$40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each
salad served in first class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first ‘Marlboro Man’.

Barbie’s full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like to be seen
wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines
were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and
figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

And the best for last…

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

A first-grade teacher, Ms Brooks was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked, “Harry what is your problem?”

Harry answered, “I’m too smart for the first-grade.

My sister is in the third -grade and I’m smarter than she is!

I think I should be in the third-grade too!”

Ms Brooks had enough.

She took Harry to the principal’s office.

While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was.

The principal told Ms Brooks he would give the boy a test and if he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to the first-grade and behave. She agreed. Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test.

Principal: “What is 3 x 3?”
Harry: “9″.

Principal: “What is 6 x 6?”
Harry: “36″.

And so it went with every question the principal thought a third-grade should know. The principal looks at Ms Brooks and tells her, “I think Harry can go to the third-grade.” Ms Brooks says to the principal, “Let me ask him some questions?” The principal and Harry both agree.

Ms Brooks asks, “What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?
“Harry, after a moment “Legs.”

Ms Brooks: “What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?”
Harry: “Pockets.”

Ms Brooks: “What does a dog do that a man steps into?”
Harry: “Pants”

Ms Brooks: What’s starts with a C and ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin whitish liquid?
Harry: Coconut

Ms Brooks: What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?
The principal’s eyes open really wide and before he could stop the
answer, Harry was taking charge.
Harry: Bubble gum

Ms Brooks: What does a man do standing up, a woman do sitting down and a dog do on three legs?
The principal’s eyes open really wide and before he could stop the answer.
Harry: Shake hands.

Ms Brooks: Now I will ask some “Who am I” sort of uestions, okay?
Harry: Yep.

Ms Brooks: You stick your poles inside me. You tie me down to get me up. I get wet before you do.
Harry: Tent

Ms Brooks: A finger goes in me. You fiddle with me when you’re bored. The best man always has me first.
The Principal was looking restless and a bit tense.
Harry: Wedding Ring

Ms Brooks: I come in many sizes. When I’m not well, I drip. When you blow me, you feel good.
Harry: Nose

Ms Brooks: I have a stiff shaft. My tip penetrates. I come with a quiver.
Harry: Arrow

Ms Brooks: What word starts with an ‘F’ and ends in ‘K’ that means a lot of heat and excitement?
Harry: Firetruck

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher,
“Put Harry in the fifth-grade, I got the last ten questions wrong
myself.”

A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a priest were out for a Sunday
afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane
developed engine trouble. In spite of the best efforts of the pilot the plane
started to go down. Finally the pilot grabbed a parachute, yelled to the
passengers that they had better jump, and bailed out. Unfortunately there were only
three parachutes remaining.

The doctor grabbed one and said “I’m a doctor, I
save lives, so I must live,” and jumped out.

The lawyer then said, “I’m the
smartest man in the world, I deserve to live!” He grabbed a parachute
and jumped.

The priest looked at the little boy and said, “My son, I’ve lived a
long and full life. You are young and have your whole life ahead of you.
Take the last parachute and live in peace”.

The little boy handed the
parachute back to the priest and said “Not to worry, Father. The
smartest man in the world just jumped out with my back pack.”

A turtle family decided to go on a picnic. Turtles,being naturally slow about things, took seven years to prepare for their outing. Finally the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place for their outing. During the second year of their journey they found a ! place id eal for them at last! For about six months they cleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket, and completed the arrangements. Then they discovered they had forgotten the salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the salt from home. Although he was the fastest of the slow moving turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he returned. The family consented and the little turtle left. Three years
passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five years… six years… then on the seventh year of his absence, the oldest turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was going to eat and begun to unwrap a sandwich. At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree shouting, “SEE! I knew you wouldn’t wait. Now I am not going to go get the salt.”

Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our
expectations. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we
don’t do anything ourselves.

A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise and yelled over to the boy, “Hey Willis, forget your troubles. Come in and visit with us. I’ll help you get the wagon up later.”

“That’s mighty nice of you,” Willis answered, “but I don’t think Pa would like me to.”

“Aw come on boy,” the farmer insisted.

“Well okay,” the boy finally agreed, and added, “but Pa won’t like it.”

After a hearty dinner, Willis thanked his host. “I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa is going to be real upset.”

“Don’t be foolish!” the neighbor said with a smile. “By the way, where is he?”

“Under the wagon.”

John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn’t help noticing how attractive and shapely the housekeeper was. Over the course of the evening, she started to wonder if there was more between John and the housekeeper than met the eye. Reading his mom’s thoughts, John volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, my relationship with my housekeeper is purely professional.”About a week later, the housekeeper came to John and said, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don’t suppose she took it, do you?” John said, “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll write her a letter just to be sure.”

So he sat down and wrote:

“Dear Mother, I’m not saying you ‘did’ take a gravy ladle from my house, and I’m not saying you ‘did not’ take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.” Several days later, John received a letter back from his mother:

Dear Son, I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with your housekeeper, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with your housekeeper. But the fact remains that if you were sleeping in your own bed, you would have found the gravy ladle by now.”

Love, Mom.

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waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht
frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be
a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we
do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as awlohe.”

A local business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window, stating the following: “HELP WANTED. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer and must be bilingual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.”

The dog looked at the manager calmly and said, “Meow!”

Once upon a time a big monk and a little monk were travelling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river. There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn’t cross the river. The big monk offered to carry the pretty lady across the river on his back. The lady accepted. The little monk was shocked by the move of the big monk.”How can big disciple brother carry a lady when we are
supposed to avoid all intimacy with females?” thought the little monk. But he kept quiet. The big monk carried the lady across the river and the small monk followed unhappily. When they crossed the river, the big monk let the lady down and they parted ways with her. All along the way for several miles, the little monk was making up all kinds of accusations about the big monk in his head. This got him madder and madder. But he still kept quiet. And the big monk had no inclination to explain his situation. Finally, at a rest point many hours later, the little monk could not stand it any further, he burst out angrily at the big monk. “How can you claim yourself a devout monk, when you seize the first opportunity to touch a female, especially when she is very pretty? All your teachings to me make you a big hypocrite.” The big monk looked surprised and said, “I had put down the pretty lady at the river bank many hours ago, how come you are still carrying her along?”

This very old Chinese zen story reflects the thinking of many people today. We encounter many unpleasant things in our life, they irritate us and they make us angry. Sometimes, they cause us a lot of hurt, sometimes they cause us to be bitter or jealous. But like the little monk, we are not willing to let them go away. We keep on carrying the baggage of the “pretty lady” with us. We let them keep on coming back to hurt us, make us angry, make us bitter and cause us a lot of agony. Why! ? Simply because we are not willing to put down or let go of the baggage of the “pretty lady”. We should let go of the pretty lady immediately after crossing the river,immediately after the unpleasant event is over. This will immediately remove all our agonies. There is no need to be further hurt by the unpleasant event after it is over. It is just that simple.

Three elderly men are at the doctor’s office for a memory test. The doctor asks the first man, “What is three times three?” “274,” came the reply.
The doctor rolls his eyes and looks up at the ceiling, and says to the second man, “It’s your turn. What is three times three?”

“Tuesday,” replies the second man. The doctor shakes his head sadly, then asks the third man, “Okay, your turn. What’s three times three?”

“Nine,” says the third man.

“That’s great!” says the doctor. “How did you get that?”

“Simple,” he says, “just subtract 274 from Tuesday.”

The problem in listening for love is that we don’t always understand the language of love which the other person is using. A girl may use tears or emotions to say what she wants to say, and her boyfriend may not understand her because he expects her to be talking his language.

Thus, we have to force ourselves to really listen for love.

The problem with our world is that people rarely listen to each other. They hear the words, but they don’t listen to the actions that accompany the words or the expression on the face. Or people listen only for rejection or misunderstanding. They do not see the love that is there just beneath the surface, even if the words are angry. We have to listen for love in those around us.

If we listen intently we will discover that we are a lot more love than we realize. Listen for love and we will find that the world is a very loving place, after all.

LOVE is a happy thing.
It makes us laugh.
It makes us sing.
It makes us sad.
It makes us cry.
It makes us seek the reason why.
It makes us take.
It makes us give.
Above all else it makes us LIVE.

It is not the presence or absence of people that makes the difference because a person need not be lonely even if he is alone. Sometimes it is good to be alone. But that does not make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present WITH someone. It is a matter of being present TO someone.

So remember … If you love someone, tell them. Remember always to say what you mean. Never be afraid to express yourself. Take this opportunity to tell someone what they mean to you.
Seize the day and have no regrets.

Most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today and are what it’s all about anyway.

There are times when we are timid and shy about expressing the love we feel. For fear of embarrassing the other person, or ourselves, we hesitate to say the actual words “I love you.” So we try to communicate the idea in other words.

We say I love you in many ways - with birthday gifts, and little notes, with smiles and sometimes with tears. Sometimes we show our love by just keeping quiet and not saying a word, at other times by speaking out, even brusquely. We show our love sometimes by impulsiveness. Many times we have to show our love by forgiving someone who has not listened to the love we have tried to express.

Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He’s got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, “What’s in the bags?”

Juan sips his beer and smiles. “Bicycles.”

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question.The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped centimetres from a shop window. For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, “Look mate, don’t ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!”

The passenger apologized and said, “I didn’t realize that a little tap would scare you so much.” The driver replied, “Sorry, it’s not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver - I’ve been driving a funeral van for the last 25 years.

Little Johnny: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn’t do?
Teacher: Of course not.
Little Johnny: Good, because I didn’t do my homework.

Think positive… look at the world as a huge chocolate cake. It wouldn’t be complete without a few sweets or nuts, sweets like me and nuts like you.

Do you take me to be your lawful sms mate? to have and to hold in rich quotes and jokes until poor reception, low battery and no credits do us part?

1. Get to the source
Most people deal with the symptoms and not the source. Once you have identified the cause, you can act to lessen or even get rid of the stress.

2. Plan your tasks
Don’t take on more than you can handle. When the task appears beyond you, break it up into manageable chunks.

3. Develop a winner’s attitude Be positive about yourself and your choices. Practise positive self-talk.

4. Determine your priorities
Do what is more important first, and tackle them one at a time.

5. Stay in control
Stay in charge of your affairs. When you feel in control, half of the stress is gone.

6. Reward yourself
Allow yourself a small reward for a job well done. Being self-motivated helps you deal with the stress better.

7. Set realistic goals
Do as much as you can, but don’t attempt the impossible. Take smaller steps and let yourself feel the satisfaction of success.

8. Don’t dwell on your mistakes
There’s no point crying over spilt milk. Learn from your mistakes and press on.

9. Put some fun in your day
Take time off to unwind and put some fun into your day. It refreshes you and prepares you for the next challenge.

10. Build a support base
Build a support network around yourself by finding people with whom you can share thoughts and feelings.