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Interesting Facts

Posted: February 12, 2003, 11:14 pm
by Brotha
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 ballpoint 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 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 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 will try to lick their elbow.

Posted: February 12, 2003, 11:54 pm
by Kguku
There is no proof about Polar Bears being all left handed, just speculation.

A ducks quack does echo.

The pipe lighter (not as we know it today) was invented before the match, however the cigarette lighter, as we know it today, was not.

Now i have to get back to work!

Posted: February 13, 2003, 12:04 am
by Aslanna

Posted: February 13, 2003, 12:06 am
by Forthe
I did in fact try to lick my elbow. Oh the shame. :oops:

Posted: February 13, 2003, 12:09 am
by Rivera Bladestrike
Bah, I tried to lick my elbow.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 12:19 am
by Knibble
I can definatly lick my elbow. :wink:
and I done this long before ever seeing this post,although I did do it to see if I still could. :wink:

My eyes and ears are the same size they been for 10 years ya crazy thing.

I will find a word that rymes with Month.. give me a night to think on this. :wink:

Posted: February 13, 2003, 12:29 am
by Bojangels
Snails can jump?

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:11 am
by Sparck
A snail isn't an animal, but a hippopotamus is and I seriously doubt that they can jump.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:19 am
by Bojangels
Sparck wrote:A snail isn't an animal, but a hippopotamus is and I seriously doubt that they can jump.
:o What's a snail then? Sorry hehe :b

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:22 am
by kyoukan
a whale is an animal and although some can jump a little out of the drink not many can.

most of these lists are BS that people have added to over the years.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:24 am
by Dregor Thule
It's an animal, that list should read 'mammal', not 'animal'.

Some of those sound like old wives' tales to me, but we'll see! Gonna go find a word that rhymes with month.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:25 am
by Asheran Mojomaster
It is possible to lick your elbow if you have a long enough tongue...like that girl from Germany with like a 7 inch tongue.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:59 am
by Legenae
Asheran Mojomaster wrote:It is possible to lick your elbow if you have a long enough tongue...like that girl from Germany with like a 7 inch tongue.
It says her tongue is 7 centimetres... which would only be 2.7 inches.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 3:21 am
by Braxter
coral can't jump.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 3:22 am
by Denadeb
Braxter Can't jump

Posted: February 13, 2003, 3:28 am
by kyoukan
is braxter white or coral?

Posted: February 13, 2003, 3:32 am
by Kguku
white men can't jump

Posted: February 13, 2003, 4:00 am
by Laliana
I tried to lick my elbow. :oops:

Posted: February 13, 2003, 9:57 am
by Neost
I was sitting here reading some of these off to my 2 daughters.

I turned around to see both of them trying like hell to lick their elbow.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 10:45 am
by Cartalas
Neost wrote:I was sitting here reading some of these off to my 2 daughters.

I turned around to see both of them trying like hell to lick their elbow.
My Wife was reading this with Me I immediately placed her Elbow in my crotch :twisted:

Posted: February 13, 2003, 10:48 am
by Aabidano
Knibble wrote:I can definatly lick my elbow. :wink:
/cheer

I can't, got a weird look from the lady that sits across from me too :)

Posted: February 13, 2003, 10:51 am
by Canelek
Robbie the Retard can lick his elbow..

Posted: February 13, 2003, 11:51 am
by masteen
You should also try to find words that rhyme with orange and silver.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 11:55 am
by Braxter
kyoukan type-R wrote:is braxter white or coral?
both rawr!

err I mean blubblubblub

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Posted: February 13, 2003, 12:31 pm
by Kilmoll the Sexy
If I remember correctly, elephants can't jump because of the design of their legs and not because of their size.

Posted: February 13, 2003, 1:06 pm
by Pyronius Flamebringer
Snails can jump......

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Posted: February 13, 2003, 7:20 pm
by Dregor Thule
I saw that article on the german girl, and I'm sorry, her tongue is not only 7 centimeters long. Hell, I should have my own article too then in that case. If you saw the picture, and knew just how small a centimeter was, you wouldn't ever believe that. Not that I believe 7 inches tho...