Butterflies taste with their feet.
There's no Betty Rubble in the
"Flintstones Chewables" Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped
fur.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
during a dance.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of
mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are
the same whether they are read left to right, or right to left
(palindromes).
There are only four words in the English
language that end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language
that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and
"facetious."
Elephants
are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116
or older.
There are 293 ways to make change for a
dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the
world.
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,
orange, silver, or
purple.'
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches
for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog" really does use every letter of the
alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara
Falls froze completely solid.
Average
life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
On
a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying
over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of
dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word
typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your
right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the
typing.
Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word
that ends in the letters "m t".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded
history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have
been domesticated.
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.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with
both eyes.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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.
A goldfish has a memory span of twenty-three
seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time
for 1/100th of a second.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
If the population of China walked past you, in
single file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole
life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes
open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one
syllable.
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.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
Almost
everyone who reads this list 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?
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