For those who think they know everything

[binny]

Please note number 19



And You Thought You Knew EVERYTHING...
>>
>>1) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks
>>the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
>>
>>2) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6
>>feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from
>>the flush.
>>3) The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for
>>blood plasma.
>>
>>4) No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
>>
>>5) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
>>
>>6) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
>>
>>7) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of
>>age or older.
>>
>>8) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
>>
>>9) The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
>>
>>10) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's
>>first flight.
>>
>>11) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive
>>from each salad served in first-class.
>>
>>12) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
>>
>>13) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
>>the morning.
>>
>>14) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
>>
>>15) Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
>>
>>16) The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
>>
>>17) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of
>>the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
>>
>>18) Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
>>
>>19) Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
>>
>>20) Pearls melt in vinegar.
>>
>>21) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for
>>dating are already married.
>>
>>22) The three most valuable brand names on earth:
>>Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
>>
>>23) It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
>>
>>24) A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
>>
>>25) Turtles can breathe through their butts
>>
>>26) Butterflies taste with their feet.
>>
>>27) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the
>>world's nuclear weapons combined.
>>28) On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every
>>year.
>>29) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
>>30) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
>>31) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
>>32) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>>33) It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
>>34) A snail can sleep for three years.
>>35) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
>>36) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
>>ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
>>37) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
>>38) All polar bears are left-handed.
>>39) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
>>including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
>>40) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>>41) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
>>letters only on one row of the keyboard.
>>42) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English
>>language.
>>43) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
>>She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is
>>Barbara Millicent Roberts.
>>
44) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
>>
45) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
>>
46) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their
>>elbow.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

While I appreciate the list, I am not sure I believe all of them. We have an oak tree in our yard that we planted about 14 years ago, and it has had acorns on it. (See #7)

 

[Felicia]

2) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

This is gross! Our toothbrushes are in a holder on our sink and that is only 3 feet away! Now what am I gonna do!!!

 

[apnic]

Call me a freak of nature, but I can indeed lick my elbow.
-AP

 

[Chattyaholic]

I needed something like that today, really enjoyed reading it.
And yes, I certainly did try to lick my elbow...couldn't do it!

 

[Princess_Aurora]

I knew quite a bit of those. DH told me about the eye thing, but when you look at a newborn baby I swear their eyes are so much smaller than an adult's eye. I just don't think I can believe that a person's eye is always the same size.

And about folding the paper...DH told me that one too and I spent forever trying to prove him wrong. I thought for sure if you could just get a really big piece of paper then for sure you could fold it in half more than 7 times...it just didn't work though.

 

[tigercat]

Felicia make sure the lid to the toilet is closed everytime it is used. I have now trained everyone in the house to keep the lid down at all times and to make sure it is closed before flushing. I also take the toothbrushes out of the bathroom when I clean it so that I know that nothing from the cleaning supplies are going to get to the toothbrushes.
tigercat

 

[ILUVDXL]

Hummmm! Wonder where I read these before?