ifics 0 #1 October 22, 2003 wierd Facts: Did you know... 1. It is impossible to lick your elbow. 2. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. 3. A shrimp's heart is in its head. 4. 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. 5. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 6. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 7. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 8. Horses can't vomit. 9. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. 10. 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. 11. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. 12. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 13. 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? 14. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. 15. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 16. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. 17. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 18. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. 19. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. A snail can sleep for 3 years. China has more English speakers than the United States. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. Cat's urine glows under a black light. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. Polar bears are left-handed. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish haven't got brains. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Almonds are members of the peach family. There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz." The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. 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. The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet,two inches tall. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Goerge Washington isn't the first president. He was the first elected president. Men are 6 times more likley to be struck by lightning than women. It is estamated that millions of trees in the world are accidently planted by squirrles who bury nuts and forget where they hid them. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel,"Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words--none of them with the letter "E". Of all the words in the english laguage, the word set has the most definitions. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A mole can dig 300 feet in just one night. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. A hippo can open it's mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. A quarter has 119 grooves on it's edge, a dime has one less groove. A humming bird weighs less than a penny. Until 1796 there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee. The earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000.000.000 tons. The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E", and "Q" is the least used. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year. The original name for the "butterfly" "Flutterby". Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed...or is that paws. ? The opposite side of cubed dice always add up to seven. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, Just like humans use fingerprints. Bulls are color blind, therefore will usually charge at a matadore's waving cape no matter what color it is --be it red or bright yellow. Apples are more efficent than caffine in kepping people awake in the mornings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
softnotes 0 #2 October 22, 2003 Yikes! You must have been seriously bored. Or you are very efficient at cutting and pasting. Oh, and the fact about the snail occurs twice.Blue Skies SoftNotes "That's not flying.... that's falling with style!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamT 0 #3 October 22, 2003 Quote Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Anyone ever see a tortois jump? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casie 0 #4 October 22, 2003 19. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. LMFAO! How'd you know! Men are 6 times more likley to be struck by lightning than women. Hhhuuummm, my mom's been struck by lightning twice! A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. EEEEWWWWW, that's just gross!~Porn Kitty WARNING: Goldschlager causes extreme emotional outbursts! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBKid 0 #5 October 22, 2003 QuoteIn England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak Not true. Sorry to be an arsehole! Nick --------------------------- "I've pierced my foot on a spike!!!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feuergnom 29 #6 October 22, 2003 some themes re-appear like the tides, the birds in winter, the seasons... allthough the last time i saw the list it wasn't that longThe universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #7 October 22, 2003 been posted before. many are untrue, like: "A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why." http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=134813#134813it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #8 October 22, 2003 I think you should ask Wingnut.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
