22 Brain Teaser : Worth Reading :) [1] Fortnight Comes From 'fourteen

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[left][url="http://www.alldayjokes.com/2012/07/22-brain-teaser-worth-reading.html"][font=Georgia,][color=#222222][1] FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).[/color]

[color=#222222][2] POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.[/color]

[color=#222222][3] MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.[/color]

[color=#222222][4] BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.[/color]

[color=#222222][5] DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people[/color]
[color=#222222]withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..[/color]

[color=#222222][6] NEWS refers to information from Four directions[/color]
[color=#222222]N, E, W, and S.[/color]

[color=#222222][7] AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.[/color]

[color=#222222][8] QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people[/color]
[color=#222222]as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..[/color]


[color=#222222][9] JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during[/color]
[color=#222222]each Day's business.[/color]

[color=#222222][10] TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get[/color]
[color=#222222]Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins[/color]
[color=#222222]in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave[/color]
[color=#222222]rise to the custom of Tips.[/color]

[color=#222222][11] JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during[/color]
[color=#222222]World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle[/color]
[color=#222222](GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.[/color]

[color=#222222][12] Coca-Cola was originally green.[/color]

[color=#222222][13] The most common name in the world is Mohammed..[/color]

[color=#222222][14] The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they[/color]
[color=#222222]start with Asia, America, Australia, Europe[/color]

[color=#222222][15] The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.[/color]

[size=1][color=#222222][16] TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters[/color]
[color=#222222]only on one row of the keyboard.[/color]

[color=#222222][17] Women BLINK nearly twice as much as men!![/color]

[color=#222222][18] You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.[/color]

[color=#222222][19] It is impossible to lick your elbow.[/color][/size]


[color=#222222][20] Wearing HEADPHONES for just an hour will increase the bacteria in[/color]
[color=#222222]your ear by 700 times.[/color]

[color=#222222][21] It is physically impossible for PIGS to look up into the sky.[/color]

[color=#222222][22] The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the[/color]
[color=#222222]toughest tongue twister in the English language.[/color][/font][/url][/left]

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