Pudlugger
09-16-2002, 08:28 PM
>*Butterflies taste with their feet.
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>* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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>* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
>nuclear weapons combined.
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>* On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
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>* On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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>* Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
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>* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
>already married.
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>* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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>* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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>* It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
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>* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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>* It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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>* 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.
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>* A snail can sleep for three years.
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>* No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
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>* Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
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>* 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.
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>* All polar bears are left handed.
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>* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
>their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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>* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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>* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be typed only on! one row of the
>keyboard.
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>* "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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>* If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
>stand seven feet, two inches tall.
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>* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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>* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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>* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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>* Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
>
>Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know. They will
>get a kick out of it!!
>
>YOU TRIED TO LICK YOUR ELBOW, DIDN'T YOU??????
>
>
>
>* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
>
>
>
>* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of 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.
>
>
>
>* It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
>
>
>
>* 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. 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 its brain.
>
>
>
>* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be typed 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.
>
>
>* Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
>
>Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know. They will
>get a kick out of it!!
>
>YOU TRIED TO LICK YOUR ELBOW, DIDN'T YOU??????
>
>