Very Interesting Facts

**KunipshunFit** · 08-12-2003, 07:33 AM

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 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.

Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know.

They will get a kick out of it !!

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

**Juggernaut** · 08-12-2003, 08:49 AM

I thought "I am" was the shortest complete sentence. Or was that in Hebrew?

**Danielle** · 08-12-2003, 03:48 PM

"Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. "

are you sure its only 90%???????...........lol.........j/k.......now i can agree to that one...........and they can't drive either........

**symatech** · 08-12-2003, 05:12 PM

i tried to lick my elbow and failed

**TheDfromGC** · 08-12-2003, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by KunipshunFit

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

so close.........

**LittleNate** · 08-12-2003, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by Khull_Khuum

so close.........

same here...lol

**arthurb999** · 08-12-2003, 09:29 PM

I gave it a try too...

**KeyMastur** · 08-12-2003, 09:32 PM

these should be linked to the other thread of Useless Information.

**nj juice** · 08-12-2003, 09:44 PM

but what if your double-jointed? You know like those freaky people that can invert their limbs.

**clockworks** · 08-13-2003, 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by symatech

i tried to lick my elbow and failed

me too...=(

-- clocky baby

**righton** · 08-13-2003, 06:13 AM

Sorry....it is BELIEVED polar bears favor their left paw. Taken from Manitoba Wildlife Federation while doing studies in Churchill, Man ( polar bear capital of the world.)