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Here's some more interesting facts that you'll NEVER need to know:

1) Butterflies taste with their feet.

2) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

3) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
nuclear weapons combined.

4) On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

5) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

7) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already
married.

8) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

9) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

10) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

11) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

12) It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

13) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because
when it built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books
that would occupy the building.

14) A snail can sleep for three years.

15) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." or "orange"

16) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

17) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing. - SCARY!!!

18) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

19) All polar bears are left handed.

20) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes.

21) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

22) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.

23) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

24) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
stand seven feet, two inches tall.

25) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

26) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

27) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

28) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow
 
Aaaah! Can't...reach...elbow! :D
4) On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
How do you choke on a ballpoint pen? You'd have to be extremely stupid.
 
Regulus said:
How do you choke on a ballpoint pen? You'd have to be extremely stupid.
Personally, I was surprised it was just 100 a year. There's a lot of stupid people in this world. :confused:
 
Maybe that's why all of George W's pens are felt-tip or ink-well? Otherwise, apparently, he'd assassinate himself...
 
ahh thats funny before i got to the bottom of the list i tried to lick my elbow. lol

I thought that i'd add this just saw it on modern marvels: The average female rat has sex 22 times a day! Awesome
 
ShoobieRat said:
Maybe that's why all of George W's pens are felt-tip or ink-well? Otherwise, apparently, he'd assassinate himself...

That's funny. And for the love of God, no pretzels!:)
 
...i dont mean to insult any women here... but the choking on the pen i do wonder how many were female... (again no offense) but it seems like alot of girls like to see how far they can put things in their mouth..
 
Also can't rhyme with orange or purple! Wheres those at huh!?!

The word: Subcontinental has all of the vowels listed backwards :)
 
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