Amazing Facts
Here are some of the amazing facts that I read around in newspapers, magazines and on net. I read lot of them but remmembered only few.
Here are they….
- You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
Aren’t they amazing?
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Regarding the sneezing and “bless you”. The heart thing is one of the possible histories of the practise, but it is at least as old as 77 AD (first recorded written reference), and most probably much older. How would they figure out if your heart had stopped beating for such a short period of time? Not that it actually does mind you, but assume it does… doesn’t really strike me as a good explaination. Some others:
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/blessyou.htm
So galazy, the link you provided do have the same concept in the third point of the common explanation para…….I think that is one kind of the explanation for what happens while sneezing. It can be the fact….right..
Nice Facts dude , keep em coming .
I was always taught that it was belived that the devil was forcing his way into your body when you let down your guard during a sneeze and the bless you was to protect the sneezer.
“taught” what you say is the explanation for the sneeze, but in real the heart stops for a second.
these facts are wrong! i have seen someone lick their elbow! you are a LIER!!!!!!!
Dear Prince,
Atleast, I have seen no one licking there elbow, and even if someone is licking, he or she may be gifted with some different kind of body figure
princess you cant even spell
ok why is it saying 9.12 its quarter past 4 !
it is not impossable to lick your elbow someone in labrador west,Newfoundland can lick there elbow so you should take that fact off it is not true her name is danielle Brown she is 15
You say bless you to a sneeze because people thought your soul was going to get out. Similar to crossing yourself when you yawn (not really done anymore) to keep demons out.
I have a friend that can lick his elbow, but then again, he can pop his shoulders out. Great facts!
very nice how much
There is actually studies that say your heart does not stop while sneezing but if you sneeze too many times, your heart can become out of rhythm for a short time. It’s wrong plain and simple.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-03/890925984.An.r.html
um actually, people say bless you because back in the day they used to believe that your sould was leaving your body when you sneezed. and they said god bless you so it would stay… ur an idiot…
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umm no, people say “bless you” because back in the great depression people that sneazed often got a disease that was in the air and died
i dunno ’bout al dis shit as to wot happens wen a person sneezes.but i do sneeze a lot and try to control it too many times..
if your double jointed on your elbow, you can like you elbow
I also like my elbow
Saying “bless you” to a person who has sneezed was coined originally in 14th centaury England as a consequence of the arrival of ‘The Plague’ of 1448 to 1450. Over the 2 year period the ‘black death’ killed up to 40% of the population of the Country now known as Great Britain (This, obviously, excludes Northern Ireland).
The endemic spread of this ‘Black Death’ saw many people buried without the sacramental rites issued by the clergy, who were also dying in vast quantities, or being able to confess.
Pope Clement VI granted a “remission of sins” to those who were overcome by plague. In the circumstance the Pope deemed it appropriate to decree that people can confess their sins to one another, or “even to a woman”. This was groundbreaking stuff for the time!
Now in exercise of their newly granted privilege to hear confession a customary ‘blessing’ would be given to those who happened to sneeze, which was an early symptom of the plague. “Bless you” was, therefore, a simple prayer for your recovery or speedy death.
Interestingly, it is around this time that the children’s poem ‘Ring-a-ring-a-roses’ is thought to have emerged. You will, no doubt, judge for yourself how the line “Attishu! Attishu! We all fall down” fits appropriately for the occasion.
Playing Cards as Kings David etc.. –why in that case aren’t the queens their wives since it is supposed to be a family? Maybe this has to be filed under “trivial nonsense” and we can have a current reassignment eg Princess Diana as queen of hearts, Donald Trump as Knave of Spades etc.
I remember from my childhood a story that used to come on the radio whereby a soldier was hauled before the judge for playing cards in church. He mounted an elaborate defense which always struck me as being up there in the awards for the cleverest lawyer and involved 4 suits being the 4 seasons, 52 cards = 52 weeks in a year, 13 cards in a suit = Jesus and His Apostles, trinity is represented by the King, Queen, and Jack of each suit.
“Sir, I have been on the march for about six days. I have neither a Bible nor a prayer book, but I hope to satisfy you, Sir, with the purity of my intentions.” And with that, the boy started his story:
“You see Sir, when I look at the Ace, it reminds me that there is but one God. And the Deuce reminds me that the Bible is divided into two parts, the Old and the New Testaments. When I see the Trey, I think of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And when I see the Four, I think of the four Evangelists who preached the Gospel; there was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And when I see the Five, it reminds me of the five wise virgins who trimmed their lamps; there were ten of them: five were wise and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out. When I see the Six, it reminds me that in six days, God made this great heaven and earth. When I see the Seven, it reminds me that on the seventh day, God rested from His great work. And when I see the Eight, I think of the eight righteous persons God saved when He destroyed this earth; there was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives. And when I see the Nine, I think of the lepers our Savior cleansed, and nine out of the ten didn’t even thank Him.
When I see the Ten, I think of the Ten Commandments God handed down to Moses on a table of stone. When I see the King, it reminds me that there is but one King of Heaven, God Almighty. And when I see the Queen, I think of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is Queen of Heaven. And the Jack or Knave is the Devil. When I count the number of spots on a deck of cards, I find 365, the number of days in a year. There are 52 cards, the number of weeks in a year. There are 4 suits, the number of weeks in a month. There are 12 picture cards, the number of months in a year. There are 13 tricks, the number of weeks in a quarter. So you see, Sir, my pack of cards serves me as a Bible, an Almanac and a Prayer Book.”
phenominal these facts are.
yes i can kill myself holding my breath..underwater!..i almost did XD
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