DID YOU KNOW? - SERIES 13

- From Dr.DD’s News Granary 

Some surprising facts you may not have known!








1). The muscles in your heart have the strength to shoot your blood 10 meters in the air.












2). The body's strongest muscle is the tongue.











3). Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying.












4). Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue.











5). Butterflies taste with their feet.













6). A cockroach can live 9 days without it's head. It only dies because it cannot eat.











7). Each King on playing cards represent a king in real history.

Spades: King David
Clubs: Alexander the Great.
Hearts: Charlemagne
Diamonds: Julius Caesar.











8). Starfish have no brains.













9). A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with it's 2 feet in the air means the soldier died in
combat. If the horse has only 1 foot in the air, the soldier died of injuries from combat. If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes.















10). Mosquitoes have teeth.













11). Thomas Alva Edison was afraid of dark.











12). During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties a writing was put up so all can see, which can read "0 Killed". From here we get the expression "O.K.", which means all is good.