Wierd things you might not know

[talldude123]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Yea, i tried that too

 

[Waphlez]

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

No word in the English language rhymes with 'month'.

A US penny costs 2 cents to make yet it's only worth 1 cent.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used to subsitute blood plasma.

Donkeys kill more people per year then plane crashes.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

 

[Nubius]

actually I knew all of these since people post this stuff quite frequently.

Also:

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

Is a lie. They DO echo. It's a sound....it's impossible for a sound to be created and not have the ability to echo.

No word in the English language rhymes with 'month'.

or orange, or purple, or silver

 

[FrankieG]

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.


Interesting...

 

[Nubius]

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

Well duh.

 

[gaara]

this thing is four years old

 

[Nubius]

If I woulda paid attention and saw chopper and martin had posted I woulda known............bah........oh well

 

[Jam3s-Zer0]

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

Teetertotter - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/teetertotter

Perpetuity - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Perpetuity

Repertoire - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Repertoire

 

[iharthdarth]

I can lick my elbow....=/

 

[Apokalipse]

on average, people eat about 3 spiders per year
this is when you're sleeping. they just crawl onto your mouth looking for a warm place to sit.