Members pappyld04 Posted August 10, 2008 Members Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 BELIEVE IT OR NOT A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A snail can sleep for three years. All Polar bears are left-handed. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. Cat's urine glows under a black light. China has more English speakers than the United States. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. I am. 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 and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. No word in the English language rhymes with month. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Starfish haven't got brains. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world. - Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts. - It is impossible to lick your elbow. - A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. - A shrimp's heart is in their head. - People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second. - 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 (or attempted to do so). - It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. - A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. - Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas. - By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school. - On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime. - More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. - Rats and horses can't vomit. - The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. - 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. - Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. - Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. - 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? - In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. - The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. - Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. - A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why. - 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks. - In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. - Most lipstick contains fish scales. - Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. - If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out. 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Members mystofpric Posted August 10, 2008 Members Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 hmmmm, something to think about for sure...... anyone else notice that at one point it says that you eat 8 spiders in a lifetime and at the end it says 10? hmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pappyld04 Posted August 10, 2008 Author Members Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Good catch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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