OT: Humour - Things you Wish You Never Knew!

["LaBarbera, William" <asagiri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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  Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
>
> * Butterflies taste with their feet.
>
> * 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.  

--And what were they doing to end up choking to death on a ballpoint pen? 
>
> * On average people fear spiders more than they do death.  

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

Like that's a news flash if you live or work in NYC, hehehehe! 
>
> *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!!!
>
> * A dentist invented the electric chair.  

And they wonder why people never like going to see the dentist! <G>
>  

> * All polar bears are left-handed.  

Like they could really do a study on that? It's not like you can go and ask them, "Gee Mr.. Polar Bear, are you left-pawed or right-pawed?" 
>
> * In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
> including their eyebrows and eyelashes.  

That had to hurt! 
>
> * An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.  

Which says a lot about how dumb they really are! heheheheh 
>
> * 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?!!!!  

 

--Bill Gopher 

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