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Chris
28-03-2003, 01:54 PM
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 ball-point 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 ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

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.

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?

swimmer
28-03-2003, 02:06 PM
hehe ok so yeh i did try to lick my elbow, and i can confirm that it doesn't work! lol!

Bazza
28-03-2003, 02:49 PM
I didn't try because I have heard that before (but yes the first time I did try!).

The thing about baseballs - I know on average they use something like 72 per game which is quite ridiculous!! I guess it's so they can get players to sign them and give them away! The reason mainly though is because whenever a ball is hit into the crowd the person it goes to gets to keep it, and when a ball is hit to one of the outfielders, they tend to give it to a kid in the crowd, which I think is a really nice touch actually and is probably why baseball is a popular game for all generations in the US.

GettingFaster
28-03-2003, 04:11 PM
I suppose trying to lick your elbow is a bit better than trying to lead a cow upstairs. Imagine how cross your mum would be!

And mascara probably has a lot to do with the blinking thing.

You can't type TYPEWRITER on the top row of a German keyboard layout.

If Barbie were scaled up a bit less so she was 5 ft 6 her other measurements would be proportionally smaller too.

(Sorry, I obviously have far too much time on my hands!)

Dreama
28-03-2003, 05:12 PM
i cant believe i did try ! what a fool i am!

super_fish88
28-03-2003, 06:03 PM
Lol, i tried licking my elbow too!! :P (I really should get out more, i've been trying for over 15 minutes now! It DEFINATELY doesn't work!)

A seven foot Barbie...very scary thought!

I was wondering why the TYPEWRITER thing doesn't work on my auntie's computer, it's German!

I wouldn't mind sleeping for 3 years like the snail! Maybe i should try...

otter cub
28-03-2003, 08:30 PM
You guys are all nuts and have far tooooo much time on your hands. And no i didn't try licking my elbow cos i've heard that one before. Where did u get some of those facts Chris??
I would agree with all of them because i don't know any better but how can anyone possibly know that all polar bears are left handed?

super_fish88
28-03-2003, 09:14 PM
They probably did some kind of fancy science experiments or something!

nsswimmer
28-03-2003, 10:21 PM
lOL but GettingFaster, if barbie was made to be 5 foot 6 then imagine how skinny her waist would be!!!!!!!!

23 inches is disgustingly skinny already~!

GettingFaster
28-03-2003, 11:30 PM
World record for skinniest waist is something obscene, like 13 inches, and my dad actually knows the woman. She looks like a wasp I'm told!

And there isn't a word in English that rhymes with "orange" either. (God, I'm sad!)

Meiri
29-03-2003, 08:27 AM
Hahaha... i also tried licking my elbow.. didn't work...
Where did you get all these facts from, Chris?

Bazza
29-03-2003, 11:47 AM
By the looks of things, Getting Faster wrote them!!

I also thought that about barbie - she would only be 7 foot 2 if you chose to increase her size by that amount, and obviously that would effect her 'vital statistics'!

super_fish88
29-03-2003, 08:10 PM
13 inches!!!! Wouldn't you just snap in half or something??!

swimchick152
29-03-2003, 09:28 PM
those were hilarious....:D that is freaky that a dentist invented the electric chair! i wonder what his intentions were!

GettingFaster
30-03-2003, 05:42 PM
Makes the idea of a local anaesthetic at the dentist quite appealing if you consider the alternative!

Bootie
31-03-2003, 07:55 AM
Yes, I tried to lick my elbow and aftre this weekends Gala, I think I may be an Egyptian Priest!

DangerMouse
31-03-2003, 09:43 AM
Originally posted by otter cub
You guys are all nuts and have far tooooo much time on your hands. And no i didn't try licking my elbow cos i've heard that one before. Where did u get some of those facts Chris??
I would agree with all of them because i don't know any better but how can anyone possibly know that all polar bears are left handed?

i reckon they came in one of those chain mail things as i've had it a few times!

yes i did try a lick my elbow!

Chris
31-03-2003, 04:39 PM
Originally posted by DangerMouse
i reckon they came in one of those chain mail things as i've had it a few times!

yes i did try a lick my elbow!

Yep. Someone has too much time on their hands :p

GettingFaster
31-03-2003, 05:21 PM
Maybe we can develop this elbow-licking thing into a new drill.

Would you be able to lead a cow downstairs if you pulled it by its tail and made it walk backwards?

super_fish88
31-03-2003, 08:10 PM
Lol, why don't you have a go and let us know how you get on! :P

GettingFaster
31-03-2003, 08:29 PM
EUGH! I can only *imagine* the mess if you pulled its tail too hard.

And I've resisted the temptation to try and lick my elbow since this thread started, but I finally sucumbed. Couldn't do it.

Can anyone think of a longer word than AFTERWARDS which is typed with one hand (if you touch-type you'll know what I mean).

super_fish88
31-03-2003, 08:38 PM
The longest words that i can think off that you can write by doing touch-type are LOLLIPOP and MONOPOLY, i think AFTERWARDS is the longest.

tinie
31-03-2003, 08:55 PM
lol my boyfrend snet me that and i tryed hehe

DangerMouse
31-03-2003, 09:12 PM
what to get a cow up the stairs tinie :D