cool facts

[super gerbil]

some of these facts really suprised me. read them all

* 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 earsnever 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 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.


yeah wierd but true

[MD1032]

Originally posted by super gerbil
some of these facts really suprised me. read them all

> > Almost everyone who reads this email will try to
> > lick their elbow

OH NOES! I actually DID try to lick my elbow!!

Amazing and interesting facts.

[Knothead]

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow

LOL! I was gonna quote you on that, because the fact is, I did try it, and I CAN lick my elbow. I don't understand the assertion that it's impossible.

I canNOT touch my tongue to my nose, though.



GAH, I just had a vision of TechIMO-ers trying it just now.

[OuTpaTienT]

Originally posted by super gerbil
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

I've heard this before. Very bizarre...but there just has to be logical reason.

Originally posted by super gerbil
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

That's me. I HATE spiders. But death by spiders? That has got to be the most horrendous nightmare-ish scenario ever.

Originally posted by super gerbil
All polar bears are left-handed.

Wouldn't that be left-pawed? And do you know how they can tell the bears are lefties? ...because they hold their pen funny when they sign checks.

[Knothead]

Wouldn't that be left-pawed? And do you know how they can tell the bears are lefties? ...because they hold their pen funny when they sign checks.---OuTpaTienT

LOL OuT...so, you've noticed that too, eh?

[Epidemic]

hmmmm,

I think a sloth probably can not jump as well.

What about white men?

Gene simons can lick his elbow I bet.

[Knothead]

Gene Simmons can lick his elbow I bet.

Oooh, now I feel special.

A snail can sleep for three years.

And when it awakens it's a raisin.

[Knothead]

or at least, twitchin' a mite.