Fun Facts...some things to ponder!

[Dopey Sharon]

FUN FACTS
>
>*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.
>
>*Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.
>
>*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!!!
>
>*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]

Cool!

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

Even for Gene Simmons?

 

[WDWfanatic288]

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]

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!

Thirty-Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

Yikes!!

 

[Mickey's sunshine]

these were cool to read - thanks for posting them.

 

[DaveH]

 

[BabyLove99]

These are cool! I think I'm gonna stop chewing on pens in school though lol

 

[nativetxn]

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

Interesting

 

[Micca]

I can't lick my elbow. I'm pretty handy with a Dairy Queen treat though

 

[shep]

Originally posted by Dopey Sharon
FUN FACTS
>

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

 

[missymouse3367]

thanks for the info!!

 

[cotye]

INteresting.

 

[missymouse3367]

 

[JerseyJanice]

Fun post! Thanks!