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* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
* A shrimp's heart is in their head.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
* 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 (or attempted to do so -
apart from Bones ).
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the
sky.
* A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
* More than 50% of the people in the world have never
made or received a telephone call.
* Rats and horses can't vomit
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to
be the toughest tongue twister in the English
language.
* 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 when you
sneeze, they can pop out.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
could have over million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase
the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
* If the U.S. 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?
* In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman
somewhere.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads for dating are already married.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows
why.
* 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by
people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
* In the course of an average lifetime you will, while
sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy that
all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point
pens every year.
* On average people fear spiders more than they do
death.
* Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently
arrived immigrants.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or
older.
* It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.
*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.
*No word in the English language rhymes with
"MONTH".
*Average life span of a major league baseball:
7pitches.
*Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never stop growing.
*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
*All polar bears are left handed.
*In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from
their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
*TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters on one row of the keyboard.
*"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their
elbow.
I don't know if any of these are true but they are definitely interesting.

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*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Not true. It was invented by Edison. Actually, Edison himself probably didn't invent it, it was probably his crew in his lab, but it's his name on the patent.
Edison wanted to prove the evils of AC current, his brand was DC. Edison toured the country doing demostrations of how "dangerous" AC was by hooking it up to and killing dogs, horses and even elephants.. Finally, he invented the electric chair. Certainly if the electric chair that ran on AC killed people, then most people wouldn't want AC in their houses.
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Harold P. Brown and Dr. Fred Peterson invented it for Edison. One of them HAD to be a dentist. Dentists love inflicting pain! :D
Reminds me of the show 'Little Shop of Horrors' where Bill Murray loved going to the dentist and refused the pain killers. Classic. :D

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* If the U.S. 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?

It says nothing of the sort!
14 CFR 1211 is a reserved number and has NOT been used for ANYTHING.
See; THIS
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* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
False. I've seen a photo.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
False.
* A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
False. Check the Straight Dope archives.
* If the U.S. 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?
Quade took this one.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows
why.
All sound echoes, that's just the way it is.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Some, not most.
* Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
So does my urine, but you wouldn't wave a blacklight over that.
* Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently
arrived immigrants.
What is recently? 5 years? 1 year?
*All polar bears are left handed.
Polar bears don't have hands.
*"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.
If you allow a lone imperative to be considered a comlete sentence, then many sentences tie for the honor of shortest. "Halt." "March."
Check out http://snopes.com for info about a bunch of these.
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Brian

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