Do You Really Care?

TwinMom7

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From the "Do You Really Care" catalog:

1. Butterflies taste with their feet.

2. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

3. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

4. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

5. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

6. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

7. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

8. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

9. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

10. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

11. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

13. 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.

14. A snail can sleep for three years.

15. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

16. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

17. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

18. A dentist invented the electric chair.

19. All polar bears are left-handed.

20. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

21. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

22. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

23. "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

24. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

25. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

26. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

27. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick his or her elbow.


You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you? ;)
 
Ok, I admit I THOUGHT about trying to lick my elbow. And I'll still take a hurricane over nuclear weapons any day of the week!

Deb
 
OK, OK I admit trying to lick my elbow!:o :o

And after living through several hurricanes in FL and LA, I'm not too sure I would take another hurricane over nuclear weapons. :p
 

Originally posted by TwinMom7
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick his or her elbow.

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you? ;)

Nope!! Not even a thought about doing that. I knew I wouldn't succeed. I'm not that coordinated. But, I will test DS8 when he gets home from school!;)
 
2. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
False See:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Biology/0205/b01035d.html

13. 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.
False See:
http://www.snopes.com/college/halls/sinking.htm

Nope, I didn't try to lick my elbow. (I tried it too many times as a child without success.)

Bev
 


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