[1] FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
[2] POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
[3] MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
[4] BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
[5] DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people
withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
[6] NEWS refers to information from Four directions
N, E, W, and S.
[7] AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
[8] QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people
as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
[9] JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during
each Day's business.
[10] TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get
Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins
in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave
rise to the custom of Tips.
[11] JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during
World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle
(GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
[12] Coca-Cola was originally green.
[13] The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
[14] The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with Asia, America, Australia, Europe
[15] The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
[16] TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
[17] Women BLINK nearly twice as much as men!!
[18] You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
[19] It is impossible to lick your elbow.
[20] Wearing HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
[21] It is physically impossible for PIGS to look up into the sky.
[22] The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
