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Dopey Sharon
07-28-2002, 01:24 PM
FUN FACTS
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>*Butterflies taste with their feet.
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>*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.
>
>*Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.
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>*It's physically impossible for you to lick your own elbow.
>
>*The Main Library at Indiana University sins over an inch every year
>because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
>weight of all the books that woud occupy the building.
>
>*A snail can sleep for three years.
>
>*No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
>
>*The 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!!!
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>*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 it's 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 it's 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!!
>

olena
07-28-2002, 01:27 PM
Cool!


*It's physically impossible for you to lick your own elbow.

Even for Gene Simmons?

:teeth: :teeth: :teeth: :teeth: :teeth:

WDWfanatic288
07-28-2002, 02:41 PM
I didn't try it but I have many times!

one time in Spanish I told my friend and she told the whole class and we all tried to do it! lol

very interesting though!

thanks for the info! :)

Pooh93
07-28-2002, 02:48 PM
On average people fear spiders more than they do death Raises hand! This is me!!! However, I have to be a tad more brave now that I have kids!:D

Thirty-Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married http://www.plauder-smilies.de/eek.gif Yikes!!

Mickey's sunshine
07-28-2002, 03:22 PM
these were cool to read - thanks for posting them. :)

DaveH
07-28-2002, 03:25 PM
:)

BabyLove99
07-28-2002, 03:32 PM
These are cool! I think I'm gonna stop chewing on pens in school though lol :jester:

nativetxn
07-28-2002, 03:34 PM
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Interesting :)

Micca
07-28-2002, 03:36 PM
I can't lick my elbow. I'm pretty handy with a Dairy Queen treat though:D

shep
07-28-2002, 03:38 PM
Originally posted by Dopey Sharon
FUN FACTS
>

>
>*ALMOST EVERYONE WHO READS THIS EMAIL WILL TRY TO LICK THEIR ELBOW!!
>

:o :o

missymouse3367
07-28-2002, 09:15 PM
thanks for the info!!:D

cotye
07-29-2002, 09:39 AM
INteresting.

missymouse3367
07-29-2002, 12:29 PM
:D

JerseyJanice
07-29-2002, 12:45 PM
Fun post! Thanks!