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1

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2

40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

7

Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8

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

9

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10

Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

12

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

13

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

14

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

15

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16

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

17

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

18

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

24

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

26

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

27

Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".

28

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

30

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

31

We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

32

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

33

Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.

34

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

35

Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

36

When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

37

There are more chickens than people in the world.

38

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

39

There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C..

40

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

41

The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.

42

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

43

The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer.

44

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

45

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

46

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.

47

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

48

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

49

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

50

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

52

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

53

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe, leaving her mentally retarded

54

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

55

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

56

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.

58

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

59

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.

60

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

61

China has more English speakers than the United States.

62

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

63

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

64

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

65

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

66

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

67

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

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The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.



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If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

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Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

71

Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.



72

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.



73

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

74

Coca-Cola was originally green.

75

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

76

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

77

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

78

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

79

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

80

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

81

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because, when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Also, it was believed in olden times that the sneeze expelled an evil spirit.

My mother told me this story in my childhood. It is the same as all mothers tell to their growing kids. These stories carried lot of value as I grew and dealt with others. It has immensely helped me and I am sure about you.

I grew up in Mulund, a last suburban station of Mumbai. I have wonderful memories of those first fifteen years, and many people in Mulund influenced my life in very positive ways. My mathematics teacher taught me the importance of understanding on the concept, discipline, and believing in myself. My Marathi teacher is still the funniest person I have ever met. He taught me that a sense of humour and especially laughing at self could be one of life's greatest blessings.

However, my mother was my hero. She taught me many things, but at the top of the list, she taught me to treat people with love and respect...to live the Golden Rule.

Venu, I remember one particular instance of her teaching this "life lesson" as if it were yesterday. Mom owned a small store, and I used to dust it every Saturday after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I observed my mother talking to all the customers as they came in...the hardware store owner, the banker, a farmer, a doctor. At the end of the day, just as Mother was closing, the garbage collector came in.

I was ready to go home, and I thought that surely, Mother wouldn't spend too much time with her but I was wrong. Mother greeted her at the door with a big hug and talked with her about her husband and son who had been in a car accident the month before. She empathized, she asked questions, she listened, and she listened some more. I kept looking at the clock, and when the woman finally left, I asked, "Mom, why did you spend so much time with her? She's just the garbage collector." Mom then looked at me, locked the front door to the store, and said, "Son, let's talk."

She said, "I'm your mother and I tell you lots of stuff as all mothers should, but if you remember nothing else I ever tell you, remember this...treat every human being just the way that you would want to be treated." She said, "I know this is not the first time you've heard it, but I want to make sure it's the first time you truly understand it, because if you had understood, you would never have said what you said." We sat there and talked for another hour about the meaning and the power of the Golden Rule. Mom said, "If you live the Golden Rule, everything else in life will usually work itself out, but if you don't, your life probably will be very unhappy and without meaning."

Friends, I recently heard someone say, "If you teach your child the Golden Rule, you will have left them an estate of incalculable value." Truer words were never spoken.

Let's All be Masters of our Mouths

Once upon a time an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief.
As a result, the young man was arrested.
Days later the young man was proven innocent.
After been released he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him.

In court the old man told the Judge: 'They were just comments, didn't harm anyone..'

The judge, before passing sentence on the case, told the old man:
'Write all the things you said about him on a piece of paper.
Cut them up and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out.
Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence.'

The next day, the judge told the old man: 'Before receiving the sentence,
you will have to go out and gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday.'

The old man said: 'I can't do that! The wind spread them and

I won't know where to find them.'

The judge then replied: 'The same way, simple comments may destroy
the honor of a man to such an extent that one is not able to fix it.
"If you can't speak well of someone, rather don't say anything"

'Let's all be masters of our mouths, so that we won't be slaves of our words.'

Workplace myths: 8 things you should never assume at work

Do you feel that all your colleagues are friends? Or that your life is all about your job? You could be wrong. We often make bad assumptions and then become disappointed when situations don't work out.

1. My job completes me:

It's not your whole life, avoid the Work, Sleep, Repeat cycle or else your sense of self will erode any time your job disappoints you. Your Money columnist Carolyn Kepcher, author of the best-selling book 'Carolyn 101,' tells you the top nine areas in which it's important to maintain a healthy sense of reality:

2. My boss reads my mind:

Lobby for your promotion and take the initiative of talking to your boss about it. Many workers make the mistake of not engaging in any self-promotion at all, and then suffer the crushing disappointment of not receiving a pay raise, or a promotion.

3. Co-workers are friends:

Although you may find friends at work, it's very important to draw boundaries. Unlike friendships or romances gone awry, you have no choice but to see your co-workers every single workday.

4. Salaries are set fairly:

It's your responsibility to negotiate for a higher salary. Employers will pay what they feel they need to pay to hire and keep an employee, and nothing more.

5. HR is here to help me:

They will help you, but their true job is to protect the organization. There are certain areas in which it may be best not to seek the HR department's assistance, such as using them as a shoulder to cry on for your every workplace woe.

6. You aren't indispensable:

Millions of workers learned that their jobs are not as secure as they once thought. Being valuable is realistic, feeling irreplaceable is not. My personal life is my business, only as long as something that reflects poorly upon your employer. For example, you're probably not free to bad-mouth them on Facebook. Even if you do not face disciplinary action, your future career will take a hit.

7. I'll sue:

Don't be naive. Filing a lawsuit alone takes a lot of money. Even if you are right, sometimes your only decision is whether to stay or to go. Righting wrongs can be a very costly mission.

8. My bosses are cool when I slack off:

Do not take your job for granted. While you're accepting their pay, it's important to honor your end of the bargain, or expect them to reward your poor attitude by bestowing your job to someone who actually wants it