Something funny

(this may not have any scientific proof, but it's nice anyway, it provides some interesting answers to common questions)

Did you know...

1) ... that it's impossible to suck your elbow.
2) ... that Coke (Coca-Cola) was originally green.
3) ... that it's possible to have a cow walk up the stairs, but not to have a cow walk down the stairs.
4) ... that the quack quack of a duck does not produce echo and nobody knows why.
5) ... that every king represented in the cards stands for a great king in history: Spades: King David; Clubs: Alexander The Great; Hearts: Charles the Great; Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
6) ... that if you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 it equals 12,345,678,987,654,321.
7) ... that in the statue of a person on a horse, in a park, if the person has his legs in the air, he died in combat; if the horse had one of its front paws up, the person died due to the wounds received in combat; if the horse has all the four paws on the ground, the person died for natural causes.
8) ... that the name Jeep comes from the abbreviation given by the armed forces to vehicles for "Generic Purpose", that is, "G.P.".
9) ... that it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
10) ... that right-handed people live an average of nine years longer than left-handed people.
11) ... that a cockroach can live up to nine days without its head before he dies... of hunger.
12) ... that elephants are the only animals that can't jump (luckily...).
13) ... that a person laughs about 15 times a day.
14) ... that the word cemetery koimetirion which means "dormitory".
15) ... that in Old England people could not have sex without the King's consent (except for the members of the Royal family). When people wanted a child they had to ask permission to the King, who would give them a sign to hang out of the door while having intercourse. The sign read "Fornication Under Consent of the King", that is, F.U.C.K.
16) ... that during the war of secession, when the troops went back to their quarters, if they did not have any casualties they would write a sign reading "0 Killed"; from here comes the expression OK, meaning "all is well".
17) ... that when the English conquerors first arrived in Australia they got scared when they saw those strange animals performing incredible jumps. They called one of the Indigenous people and tried to ask questions with gestures. Hearing the person say "Kan Ghu Ru", the conquerors adopted the word "kangaroo". After long research, linguists determined that what the Indigenous people meant to say was "I don't understand you".
18) ... that 80% of the people who read this tried to suck their elbow!!!!!