bonegolem
04-09-2002, 05:02 PM
Ok, I copied this from an email so if it looks screwed up...well...that's why.
Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
>
> 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 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
>
> 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 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.