42 odd facts you may not know. (best, how much, phone, daughter)

[John1960]

Got this by e-mail..not sure if they are all true, but they are ALL interesting!

1.) A shrimp's heart is in its head.

2.) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.

3.) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

4.) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

5.) If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969 make it illegal for U. S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

6.) In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

7.) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

8.) 23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

9.) Most lipstick contains fish scales

10.) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

11.) If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.

12.) In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

13.) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

14.) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

16.) Horses can't vomit.

17.) Butterflies taste with their feet.

18.) In 10 minutes, a category three hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

19.) On average 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

20.) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

22.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

24.) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

25.) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.

26.) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

27.) It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

28.) 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.

29.) A snail can sleep for three years.

30.) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

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

32.) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

33.) All polar bears are left handed.

34.) In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

35.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

37.) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

38.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall.

39.) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

40.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

41.) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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

[dxiweodwo]

^^
haha you almost got me on the "lick elbow" part, but I didn't. so HA!! I beat the system


very Interesting John

[Bydand]

A lot of those "facts" are just urban legends though. Snopes.com is our friend when it comes to things like this.

[studedude]

Some additional facts.


1.) Most men have two heads and think with the wrong one.

9.) Consequently nobody knows how much fish weigh.

10/27.) Nobody has ever left a tongue print on their elbow.

12.) Several witnesses were found buried in the sand.

17.) Butterflies taste, like chicken.

32.) Accidently. The family members were awarded 1.2 mil

37.) "To your room" is the most added phrase on CDF

[Tek_Freek]

7.) Patently untrue. Who says so? Me. (See #37, below)

14.) A goldfish can't get pregnant, they're egg layers. An egg-laden goldfish is said to be ripe.

33.) Absolutely untrue! Polar bears have paws!

37.) "Me.", "Us.", "Up.", "In." There are more, I'm sure.

42.) I have more interesting things that I want to lick...

Thanks John, these are always fun.

[Tek_Freek]

And on that note and with no plan to verify any of it:

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

[ShinyHappyLucy]

My daughter can lick her elbow.

[grmngrl8203]

Heres some more -

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will
kill a small sized dog
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in
the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the
upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that st ored
the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time, hence, multi-tasking was invented.)
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know)
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a space suit damages it. I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.
George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. 'Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to jail.

[lionking]

LOL!!!! before I even got to 42 I tried to lick my elbow!!!!!

[kris_99]

wow thx