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• Coca-cola was originally green.
• Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than for US treasury.
• If the word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?
• If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
• Is there another word for a synonym?
• The word “verb” is a “noun“.
• The original story from “tales of 1001 Arabian nights” begins, “Aladdin was a little Chinese boy”.
• They have square watermelons in Japan… they stack better.
• Why can’t you make another word using all the letters in “anagram“?
• Your nose & ears never stop growing.
• Women invented all bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers.
• Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.
• The monarch butterfly’s sense of taste is about 12,000 times more sensitive than a human’s.
• Cinderella got to wear glass slippers thanks to a lousy translator. In the original version, she wore squirrel fur slippers, but the translator goofed
• The dot over the letter ‘I‘ is called a tittle.
• The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• Membership in the rose family (Rosaceae) is not limited to roses. It also includes almonds, apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries and strawberries.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
• Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
• Elephants can’t jump. Every other mammal can.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
• The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

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• Go to http://moon.google.com/
• Now push the zoom-in slider to the limit
• Enjoy your result and tell your friends 🙂

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?

4. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

5. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

6. This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.

+ Locate the answers in the first comment.