Weird & interesting facts!

mfield · 09-08-2002 11:28am #1

This might sound crap but it gets good at the end so read on people

Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (and might
not ever care to
know...)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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
ballpoint 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.

Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to
everyone you know. They
will get a kick out of it !!

PS... So, did you try to lick your elbow????

Harmo · 09-08-2002 1:45pm

Originally posted by mfield

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Weird

irishman_abroad · 09-08-2002 1:46pm

interesting almost made my elbow too

BigCon · 09-08-2002 3:21pm

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH"

<no, that word doesn't rhyme with it and you know it>

tman · 09-08-2002 4:46pm

Butterflies taste with their feet.

???
they could do with elaborating a bit there

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements
would be 39-23-33. She
would
stand seven feet, two inches
tall.

i dont quite get that, surely they could've worked that one out using an average height?
/edit
unless they worked that out in proportion to the playhouses & stuff you get to go with barbie dolls (not that i'd know about that sort of thing)

BKtje · 09-08-2002 6:38pm

bleh i couldnt even get close to my elbow

sceptre · 09-08-2002 8:04pm

Originally posted by B-K-DzR
bleh i couldnt even get close to my elbow

Try it overarm rather than underarm. Makes a big difference:o

Mercury_Tilt · 09-08-2002 8:10pm

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phreak · 10-08-2002 2:17am

i can do it! i can lick my elbow.

mmmm, salty

Qualm · 10-08-2002 11:20am

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches
tall.

She, supposedly, also fall over due to her improportioned size (ie: the weight of those boobies couldny be supported on those toothpick legs, why do you think she always came with a stand!) Read that in another on of those "believe it if u want" emails.

Also, no other words in the english language will rhyme with the words "Orange" or "Silver"

(blancmange and Sylvia both come kinda close tho)