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| jploveparade |
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti
especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta
swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
Rats and horse can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die, if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14,Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The average person is half an inch taller upon rising in the morning.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
If you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for weeks.
The world population of chickens is about equal to people.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the english language
No president of the United States was an only child.
TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the
letters only one row of the keyboard.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of
1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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| biznology |
| if you stand on the equator you will be moving at over 24 miles per second| |
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| TranceSeeker |
Here another one:
Did you know
A pigs orgasm lasts for half an hour :eyes: |
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| dj_nomiz |
| quote: | Originally posted by jploveparade
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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i found those pretty interesting... i gotta watch seinfeld to see if that is rite... do u mean, there will be some guy dressed in superman gear randomly every episode? |
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| eLe_vatE |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
if you stand on the equator you will be moving at over 24 miles per second| |
cheers mate, you've just answered the first question on my physics homework :D |
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| .-WooDY-. |
| quote: | Originally posted by jploveparade
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.. |
ARGH!!! Cough...couggh....ill never sleep again!!! |
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| Linx_da_cat |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_nomiz
i found those pretty interesting... i gotta watch seinfeld to see if that is rite... do u mean, there will be some guy dressed in superman gear randomly every episode? |
not a guy dressed up in a superman costume. there's just superman imagery in every episode. |
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| jploveparade |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_nomiz
i found those pretty interesting... i gotta watch seinfeld to see if that is rite... do u mean, there will be some guy dressed in superman gear randomly every episode? |
http://www.eeggs.com/items/1139.html
hummm this fact appears to be partly true. "Out of 180 episodes, there are 24 that include a verbal reference. The final count is 124 episodes with a Superman reference of some sort and 52 with no Superman."
Still, I never noticed Superman in the series! |
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| Jason R |
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. [/QUOTE]
I'll neva eat chocolate again!!!!!!where does the rest of the body go? |
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| caroline |
| No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." |
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| Maaz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jason R
I'll neva eat chocolate again!!!!!!where does the rest of the body go? |
You don't wanna know, believe me :D |
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