Did you know...
It
is impossible to lick your elbow.(i bet you will try this later just because i said it!!)
A crocodile can't stick
its tongue out.(strange)
A shrimp's heart is in its head.(is this good or bad?)
In a study of 200,000
ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.(the cartoons
lied again!!)
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called
a twit.(thats funny)
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. (hard
to believe)
Horses can't vomit.(nasty!!)
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.(try it!!)
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.(painful!!)
If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two
rats could have over a million descendants.(scary thought)
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.(that will make you think twice)
If the government has no knowledge of aliens,
then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for
U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?(good question)
In every episode of
Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.(why?)
Most lipstick contains fish scales.(gross..)
Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.(i don't want to know)
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The
spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.(cool!)
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside
young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.(how do they know? Did Gilligan tell them?)
No piece
of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.(stupid donkeys!!)
You
burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty
years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is
the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American
Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.(that is an expensive olive)
Venus
is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.(i
will have to test this!!)
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles
in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.(not suprising)
Marilyn
Monroe had six toes.(weird but so is he!!) Walt Disney was afraid
of mice.(that's funny)
Pearls melt in vinegar.(i would like to know who tested this one)
Thirty-five
percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.(then where is the point in using the ads?) It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A duck's
quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains
all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.(funny...)
Turtles can breathe
through their butts.(weird)
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons
combined.(I think we need to improve on our weapons)
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every
year.(that would be from chewing on them)
On average people fear spiders more than death.
Ninety percent
of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.(wonder why..)
Elephants are the only animals that can't
jump.(gee i wonder why)
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was
built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail
can sleep for three years.(well it can never say its tierd)
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric chair
was invented by a dentist.(think about that 1)
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.(owwww) TYPEWRITER is the longest
word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average
eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
"Dreamt"
is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The
symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Ingrown
toenails are hereditary.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
"Underground"
is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
There are only four words
in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest place-name
still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated
to 3.63% of its size,L.A. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped
fur.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Telly
Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. (so did Shakespeare) The
muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay
as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully
ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.(nasty!!)
'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is
typed with only the left hand.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
Cats have
over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian
phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days
of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up
straight staircases.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough
gas would be produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's interesting!)
The human heart creates
enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet... (O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30
minutes. (Well I didn’t need to know that one)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death. (Creepy.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this
at home........ maybe at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like
a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty
on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (And I said Melanie had been around)
Butterflies
taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (I
wonder why.)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous,
do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good
thing....)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's
eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like
that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer?)
Humans and dolphins
are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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