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weird facts
« on: July 11, 2007, 03:06:00 PM »


>             Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (But do now!)
>
>     A shrimp's heart is in its head.
>
>     The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
 toughest
>     tongue twister in the English language.
>
>     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.
>
>    A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
>
>    23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people
 sitting
>    on them and photocopying their butts.
>
>    Most lipstick contains fish scales.
>
>    Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
>
>    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.
>
>    If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
>
>    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.
>
>    It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
>
>    A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
>
>    More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or
 received a
>    telephone call.
>
>    Horses can't vomit.
>
>    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.
>
>    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."
>
>    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.
>
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