Cheer of the Day - 16

Random - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. California has issued driving licenses to six people named Jesus Christ.

2. I’ve read a statement somewhere saying that hot water is heavier than cold water. At first it sounds true because you imagine that when the water is heated it expands and therefore accordingly becomes larger, hence, heavier. However, it is not true.
Why? I won’t go into scientific details but have you ever seen an ice cube floating on top of water? Of course you have, what does that tell you?

3. Apparently, radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner miles away on a live radio than at the back of the room in which it originated.

4. This might be obvious to some of you but it’s always good to refresh one’s memory. Paper was invented in 2^nd Century BC in China.

5. I was reading a book about anagrams and couldn’t help but to share the anagrams of celebrities with you, here it goes:

Lewis Hamilton – Well I am so thin
Cristiano Ronaldo – Snail coordinator
Robin Williams – I warm billions
Paris Hilton – In posh trial
Eddie Murphy – Rude? I’m hyped!

Joke:  

I don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.

Riddle:

Two in a corner,
One in a room,
Zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

Cheer of the Day - 15

Way we live - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. It’s funny how ignorant British people may be. Now if we think widely enough, we can consider that loads, and I mean loads of people speak at least 1 more language in addition to their native linguistics. Excogitating this, the first fact that I’m about to deliver is strictly about the attitude of Britons about learning a different language. I mean, ok, English is the most widely used language in the world, but just as a matter of curiosity, can’t you study another language? I am saying this because 62% of British people speak no other language than English.

2. Basically, it’s not a joke when they say it’s bad to eat after 6pm (7, or 8, whatever) as it appears to be, because recently I have found out that people who work at nigh tend to weigh more than people who work during the day.

3. An average person drinks 70,000 cups of coffee in a lifetime. It is also interesting to know that a French philosopher, Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, most commonly known as simply Voltaire, is reported to have drunk 50 cups of coffee a day!

4. It is said that after a three-week holiday your IQ can drop by as much as 20%, so don’t forget your book!

5. Every year the average person eats 428 bugs by mistake. So don’t complain when you see one, and definitely don’t try to find the remaining 427.

Joke:  

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Riddle:

I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?

Cheer of the Day - 14

The World - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. Apparently, there is a town in Canada called Churchill and it has a 20-cell prison specially built for polar bears that cause trouble. If a local sees and reports a polar bear scavenging in the town’s rubbish bins, they imprison the bear for a certain amount of time. When the bear is released from the prison, a green button is tagged behind its ear. If the same bear, wearing the green tag, returns to the town, it is jailed again and this time they put a red button when releasing.
If the red-buttoned bear attempts to come back, it’s shot on sight.

2. If you fly from Tokyo to Honolulu at 7 in the morning, you will arrive at your destination at 4.30p.m., the previous day.

3. In the 2001 official census, initiated for residents of a number of English-speaking countries, 390,000 partakers claimed to be Jedis – the fictional religion in Star Wars. This contrasts with just 250,000 Jews.

4. According to a legend, tea was first discovered by the Chinese emperor and inventor Shennong in 2737 BCE. Apparently, the emperor liked to drink his water clean and boiling was his way of sterilizing it.

One day when a servant started to boil some water for his master, a wild tea leaf from a nearby bush fell into the pot and gave it a brownish color. The color wasn’t noticed as it was delivered to the emperor, when he drank it, he found it very refreshing, and that’s how Cha (Tea) came to being! (According to the Legend)

5. When the railway was invented, some people believed that anyone travelling faster than 

12mph would face mental problems. This kind of naivety still exists among us, wake up!

Joke:  

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" Father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."

Riddle:

What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?

Cheer of the Day - 13

Words - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. It’s fascinating to know that the word ‘she’ didn't exist before around 10^th century. It was approximately in the 12^th century that it began to take form. The word ‘she’ probably derived from the old versions of ‘that one’ words like ‘seo’ or ‘hio’. It's not certain if anyone surely knows where the etymology came from. I think it’s funny to imagine English language without the usage of the most feminine word though.

2. The modern Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters. Have you heard of any Hawaiian writers? Me neither.

3. "Therein" contains ten words without rearranging any of the letters: there, in, the, he, her, here, ere, therein, herein, rein.

4. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language!

5. I came across this the other day when chatting to a friend – if you examine all the continent names, there’s something odd about their first & last letters.

Joke:  

One Liner Jokes

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Riddle:

Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.

Cheer of the Day - 12

Human health - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. We all have muscles that enable us to move our ears, but we can no longer make them work since we never thought of actually using them for moving around.

2. Male human brains are about 10 per cent heavier than female brains.

3. Human bones can withstand being squeezed twice as hard as granite can. Also, our bones can apparently stand being stretched four times as hard as concrete can.

4. Apparently, apples are more effective at

 keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine. I should try that tomorrow morning!

5. It takes about 200,000 frowns to make a permanent wrinkle to your skin, so consider this on 199,999^th cheer of the day and don’t be surprised.

Joke:  

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Riddle:

You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.

Cheer of the Day - 11

First things - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. Did you know that the first mobile phone text message was sent in December 1992? You might know, but you might not, I didn’t know and I just found out.

2. 1911, Bobby Leach, a British-born circus star, became the first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
However, he ended up in hospital for 23 weeks for that stunt and fifteen years later, he died after slipping on a piece of orange peel in New Zealand…

3. Also in year 1911, was introduced Britain’s first tube (subway) escalator at Earls Court.

4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, is credited with being the first person to introduce skiing to Switzerland.

5. Rap artist Sean P. Daddy Combs had his first job at age two, when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.

Joke:  

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

Riddle:

Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.

Cheer of the Day - 10

Unusual deaths - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. In 207 BC, there was a philosopher called Chrysippus. He is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey to try to eat figs.

2. William Huskisson, a politician, became the first person to be killed by a train. The accident happened when he was attending the opening of Liverpool-Manchester railway.
As he stepped onto the track to meet the Duke of Wellington, Stephenson’s Rocket hit him.

3. King Alexander I of Greece died from blood poisoning after being bitten by his gardener’s pet monkey.

4. Garry Hoy, a lawyer, died after throwing himself through the glass window on the 24^th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre to prove that the glass was unbreakable, it was in fact, breakable.

5. Isadora Duncan, a dancer, was strangled to death when her scarf was caught in the spokes of a car’s wheel.

Joke:  

Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?

Riddle:

My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.

Cheer of the Day - 9

Pure Trivia - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. In a religion called Toda which is in southern India, people are forbidden to cross any kind of bridge, according to their rules, rivers must be crossed on foot or swimming.

2. Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.. Yeah, it’s true.

3. Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse was
afraid of mice.

4. It is said that Mel Blanc, the voice over actor of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. Apparently, this isn't true and according to his interview he said himself that he simply couldn't tolerate the taste of it and that it would become difficult for him to deliver a line after he had swallowed a crunch of a carrot.
The sound of Bugs chomping on a carrot while delivering a wisecrack was a key element from the beginning, but a technical problem soon became apparent: after taking a noisy bite of carrot, Blanc would have to chew for a while before he could swallow enough of it to deliver his next line. Other crunchy but more easily chewed foods (apples, celery) were tried, but the resulting sounds were less carrotlike. The simplest and best solution, it turned out, was for Blanc to briefly chew on an actual carrot, then spit it out and go on with the voiceover.

5. Hugo Boss Company designed Nazi uniforms. After World War II, Boss was fined for his support of Nazism and was not allowed to vote.  He died of a tooth abscess in 1948.

Joke:  

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.

Riddle:

Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.

Cheer of the Day - 8

Random - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. Ever wondered when did people thought it would be a good idea to record 2 men beating up each other with their knuckles (I mean boxing) and then show it as a film? It was in 1894, so boxing is considered to be the first sport ever filmed.

2. You know it needs us around 1 year to learn how to walk, and then around 1 more year to learn a couple of basic words right? Well bees are born fully grown.

3. In the year 1987, American Airlines saved 

$40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class… And then you come to think this luxury, is it necessary at all?

4. If Minnie Driver married Alice Cooper, her name would be Minnie Cooper.
[I saw one today actually, when I was walking back home from my work, and since I like tight pants and tight stuff I thought I should have a tight car, as I’m 6,3 It’d be spot on.]

5. Frank Hayes was a jockey. In 1923, he died from a heart attack during a race. His horse went on to finish first, making him the only dead jockey to win a race.

Joke:  

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

Riddle:

All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
What am I?

Cheer of the Day - 7

Animals - The following information is checked and confirmed by reliable sources.

Did you know?

1. Cats need to consume a substance called tryptophan, which is found in milk, eggs and poultry, in order to sleep well. Without it, they can become insomniacs.

2. During the Second World War an amazing cat named Oscar served on the German battleship Bismarck. When the Bismarck was torpedoed, Oscar was rescued by a British sailor from HMS Cossack. Five months later HMS Cossack was sunk but Oscar was rescued by HMS Ark Royal. Just three weeks later a German U-boat destroyed the Ark Royal and Oscar was rescued again. Back to Germans, Oscar was then left to live on land and died peacefully many years later. [Read the full, detailed story at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam ]

3. Apparently, snakes don’t wee (pee). They secrete and excrete uric acid, which is a solid and chalky, usually
white substance.

4. The longest time a mammal will be pregnant is two years, and that is the African Elephant.

5. Giraffes are funny animals, they are the only ones who are born with horns and they have no vocal chords.

Joke:

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

Riddle:

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?