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Nancy | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 06:03 am     Things You Would Never Know!! (and might not ever care to know...) * A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. * In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of 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. * Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. * 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. * It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. * 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: 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. * 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 only on one row of the keyboard. * "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. * If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. * A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. * The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. * Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. * Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow. |
Hillbilly | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 06:09 am     Go Barbie! |
Goddessatlaw | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 06:11 am     Nancy, I love this list - and I laughed out loud at the last entry. I didn't try to lick my elbow, but I was going to post that everyone who did needed to 'fess up. |
Lumbele | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 09:08 am     Fessing up, I just tried it, too and was actually surprised that I couldn't do it. |
Heyltslori | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 09:59 am     yeah, ok...I tried it too...sheesh! |
Sisalou | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 11:19 am     LOL Great List! I can't lick my elbow either. |
Grannyg | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 12:19 pm     After I tried to lick my elbow and couldn't, I thought "I bet I could have done it in my younger days when I was more fexible." hhhaaa |
Willsfan | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 04:18 pm     The distance between your elbow and your wrist is the same as your foot size. It's true, I tried it. LOL |
Hippyt | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 05:09 pm     Who are the people choking to death on ball point pens??? Great list! |
Abbynormal | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 05:51 pm     Great list! Also the distance from finger tip to finger tip with your arms spread wide is your height. No luck with the elbow here either. |
Joyful | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 07:06 pm     Um on Barbies measurements, Isn't that Ru Paul? And I didn't think polar bears had hands. Just teasing, interesting list! |
Bookworm | Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 07:40 pm     Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. 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. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. |
Nancy | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 05:23 am     THERE IS ENOUGH IRON IN A HUMAN BEING TO MAKE ONE SMALL NAIL THE WHITE PART OF YOUR FINGER NAIL IS CALLED THE LUNULA THE LIFESPAN OF A TASTEBUD IS TEN DAYS ANNE BOLEYN HAD SIX FIGERNAILS ON ONE HAND, BUT ONLY HAD FIVE FINGERS ON THAT HAND. SHE HAD A SMALL EXTRA NAIL COMING OUT OF THE SIDE OF HER FINGER. RITA MORENO IS THE FIRST AND ONLY ENTERTAINER TO HAVE RECEIVED ALL 4 OF AMERICA'S TOP ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AWARDS: THE OSCAR, THE EMMY, THE TONY, THE GRAMMY |
Nancy | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 05:25 am     PENGUINS HAVE AN ORGAN ON THEIR FOREHEAD BETWEEN THE EYES THAT DE-SALINIZES WATER. IT CAN BE SEEN ONLY AS A SMALL HOLE. The original game of "Monopoly" was circular. It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year. |
Nancy | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 05:26 am     Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. A snail can sleep for 3 years. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. |
Nancy | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 05:27 am     The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!) In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. |
Sia | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 09:20 am     Hey, T! GMTA! The first thing I thought was, "What FOOL is trying to eat a ball-point pen? Who would try to get the whole thing in his mouth? A side-show performer? Great, the shallow end of the gene-pool has too many in it anyway!!" Ha! ha! ha! |
Squaredsc | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 11:14 am     omg the elbow thing, couldn't do it at all. and im putting down my pen now, lol. |
Twinkie | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 11:45 am     I will now be sleeping with my mouth taped shut at night.......ughh spiders! |
Hermione69 | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 11:56 am     I tried to lick my elbow, too, before I saw that last statement. Thank heavens I don't have any students in the library right now! They would be looking at me like, "What is the matter with you?" How funny is that? More (I make no claims these are all true. I found them at a useless trivia site): •Every episode of "Seinfeld" contains at least one Superman. •Hummingbirds can't walk. •Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight. •There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible. •Halloween" took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates. •More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury. •There is a city called Rome on every continent. •Non-dairy creamer is flammable. •Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters. •Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead. •If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it. •Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day. •By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. •From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. •Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups. •Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. •The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever. •It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. •Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. •Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf. •On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan. •Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts. •The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself." •Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the statement "to get fired." •The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century. •A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. •In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott." •A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours. •It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. •.Human birth control pills work on gorillas. •During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. •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." •Crickets hear through their knees. •According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg. •A whale's penis is called a dork. •A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size. •Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises. •Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. •A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair. •The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." •Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors. •Pearls melt in vinegar. •In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it '.' •There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. •All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. •A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds •No president of the United States was an only child. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. •The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. |
Bookworm | Monday, November 04, 2002 - 07:25 pm     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. |
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