Topic: weird facts
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Sun 10/14/07 09:54 AM
1.) A shrimp's heart is in its head.
2.) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.
3.) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
a million descendants.
4.) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
5.) 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. citi zens to have any contact with
extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
6.) In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
7.) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
8.) 23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting
on them and photocopying their butts.
9.) Most lipstick contains fish scales
10.) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
11.) 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. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.
12.) 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.
13.) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
14.) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or rec eived
a telephone call.
16.) Horses can't vomit.
17.) Butterflies taste with their feet.
18.) In 10 minutes, a category three hurricane releases more energy than
all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
19.) On average 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
20.) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
21.) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.
22.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already marrie d.
23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
24.) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
25.) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
26.) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
27.) It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
28.) 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.
29.) A snail can sleep for three years.
30.) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
31.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
32.) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
33.) All polar bears are left handed.
34.) In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
35.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
36.) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
only one row of the keyboard.
37.) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
38.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall.
39.) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
40.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
41.) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
42.) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.


MsTeddyBear2u's photo
Sun 10/14/07 09:58 AM
ew lick their elbow? sick



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TheShadow's photo
Sun 10/14/07 10:09 AM
laugh like the last one

wouldee's photo
Sun 10/14/07 10:13 AM
43.) see 38.)

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Sun 10/14/07 10:14 AM
I read these to my 14 yr old son...and he tried a good half hr. to lick his elbow before he agreed it is impossible. KIDS!!!

wouldee's photo
Sun 10/14/07 10:16 AM
6.) re. seinfeld....anyone ever notice that the bicycle on the wall in Jerry's apartment changes colors from time to time? Or is it just me?

wouldee's photo
Sun 10/14/07 10:24 AM
44.) like fingerprints, no two leaves are identical.Every thing in creation is unique... and yet, we get upset because we expect every car to be identical. Why is that? What are the automakers thinking? Or Mc D. or?????????

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Sun 10/14/07 10:28 AM
"If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out. "

This disproved this on Myth Busters.

eileena9's photo
Sun 10/14/07 12:26 PM
My daughters and I joke around all the time, and when we want to call the other a twit.....we just say "pregnant goldfish!!"
Makes people just look at us like we are weird!! laugh laugh laugh

ujGearhead's photo
Sun 10/14/07 12:30 PM
They had a thing about a duck's quack on mythbuster too. That myth was BUSTED!