Comments on: Common Things – Unknown Facts http://www.fwdemails.com/2009/08/13/common-things-unknown-facts/ A collection of funny, cool & intersting forwarded emails Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:19:48 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: me http://www.fwdemails.com/2009/08/13/common-things-unknown-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-5172 me Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:41:23 +0000 http://www.fwdemails.com/?p=1038#comment-5172 "People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond." - Untrue. It's stupid say that your heart stops, as it is a fluctuation - a beat. a sneeze causes a brief arrhythmia. Since your heart is a pump, it's just the off-beat that's prolonged briefly. It's not a stop. People say "Bless you," because they are religious dolts. "If a statue of a warrior on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes." - This is not true, although it was at one point. The most obvious issue is that people do not only make statues of dead people. "Honey – This is the only food that doesn’t spoil." - May herbs do not spoil; tea leaves, for example. If you are talking about loss of flavor, honey does indeed lose flavor in the same manner. "Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump." - Have you ever seen a whale jump? A slug? There are numerous animals that have no legs or simply do not have the musculature to jump. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. - The word "assassination" comes from the Old Urdu word "hashsashin." I'm going to stop here even though there are probably others that are blatantly wrong - these are just off the top of my head. Maybe you should google this stuff. “People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you
Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.” – Untrue. It’s stupid say that your heart stops, as it is a fluctuation – a beat. a sneeze causes a brief arrhythmia. Since your heart is a pump, it’s just the off-beat that’s prolonged briefly. It’s not a stop. People say “Bless you,” because they are religious dolts.

“If a statue of a warrior on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.” – This is not true, although it was at one point. The most obvious issue is that people do not only make statues of dead people.

“Honey – This is the only food that doesn’t spoil.” – May herbs do not spoil; tea leaves, for example. If you are talking about loss of flavor, honey does indeed lose flavor in the same manner.

“Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.” – Have you ever seen a whale jump? A slug? There are numerous animals that have no legs or simply do not have the musculature to jump.

Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’. – The word “assassination” comes from the Old Urdu word “hashsashin.”

I’m going to stop here even though there are probably others that are blatantly wrong – these are just off the top of my head. Maybe you should google this stuff.

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