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Raulandpinboy
01-21-2002, 09:38 AM
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 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.

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.

ScroogesNephew
01-21-2002, 01:36 PM
. . . that the engineer was a PURDUE graduate (re #12).

ScroogesNephew
01-21-2002, 01:40 PM
. . . ancient Egyptian priests were similar to many modern American women.

ScroogesNephew
01-21-2002, 01:42 PM
. . . that ALL Polar Bears are very intelligent.

ScroogesNephew
01-21-2002, 01:51 PM
. . . we STILL have to contend with south Florida, in SPITE of all that unleashed destructive power!

GotAnyPins
01-21-2002, 04:13 PM
Quick tell me so I can warn my friends and family!!!

DaisyCrazy
01-21-2002, 04:29 PM
....that in order to dig all this stuff up, *somebody* has an awful lot of time on their hands....:D :D;) ;)

Christy

ScroogesNephew
01-22-2002, 12:52 PM
Nah, just a decent search engine.

Parkhopper
01-22-2002, 02:36 PM
Fascinating facts! I enjoyed them very much!

wenabre
01-24-2002, 11:25 AM
Those were really cute.:)

pintrader
01-28-2002, 12:26 PM
he told me he was splitting all his spare time between fixing the house and working. That gal with the VS undies must have had a lot of useful information too didn't she or was it all just ... things that make ya go hmmmmmmm?

We're gonna hafta keep a closer eye on this guy honestly :wink, wink:

ScroogesNephew
12-28-2006, 10:52 PM
. . . things that make you go bump in the night?

daber
12-29-2006, 09:44 AM
Good to see Donna and Ed back on these boards!!!!

Michael623
12-29-2006, 11:27 AM
A duck's quack does echo. They tested it on Mythbusters.

sPaRkLeSpAz
12-29-2006, 12:39 PM
:goodvibes those were freaking awesome [=

-- they made my day =]