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Whoami

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've seen some of these before. The others are either new, or I forgot about them!

Things You Did Not Know And Probably Don't Need to Know...

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until
the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he
doesn't wear any pants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not
to have a full moon.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Starfish haven't got brains.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that
they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

And finally...
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by
a poisonous spider,

Sia

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Whoami! Just another reason why I prefer cats to dogs; I've always said that my cat could talk WITH me (whereas, dogs are limited in speech and brains, LOL)!!

Bob2112

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoami, great list! I was almost banned in Finland for the same reason.

Oh, Marilyn only had 5 toes. Urban Legend
But, who was looking at her toes?

Weinermr

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Toe DiMaggio and Archur Miller

Theowl

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My dogs have alot more than 10 vocal sounds!!! They are hound dogs!!!!!

Bob2112

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weinermr, that must be the other toe! Good thinking. I knew I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet. Extra arches too. Wow!

I feel like such a heel.

Weinermr

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A very soleful answer Bob, laced with contrition.

Kaili

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
South America and North America are technically the names of the two seperate continents, which would make that one wrong...but yeah, America fits the vowel thing.

Whoami

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 11:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea, I thought about that North America and South America thing too. But, I didnt' create the list, I just copy/pasted! Didn't think I should edit it out. Much more fun to discuss it and pick it apart!

Kaili

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 11:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I like the list though- weird interesting stuff. I love useless trivia. Did you know licking a stamp is one calorie?

Marysafan

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The eye grows. That is why so many kids get to be nearsighted. It does not stay the same size.

I can't imagne a giant tortoise jumping. I can't believe hippos can get much off the ground either.

Urgrace

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 09:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Marysafan, I saw a giant tortoise jump straight up so I know it is true.