interesting facts

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by Eric Schmelzer, Jan 5, 2003.

  1. Eric Schmelzer

    Eric Schmelzer Well-Known Member

    Weird Things You Would Never Know!!

    Butterflies taste with their feet.


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

    In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
    all 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.


    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.

    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.

    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.
     
  2. GSXMEN

    GSXMEN Got Jesus?


    Alright...THAT'S gotta hurt!!!:eek2:
     
  3. yuk

    yuk Well-Known Member

    I find that PIZZA comment hard to swallow ...... especially with anchovies.:shock:
     
  4. 72 V Code

    72 V Code 71 72 GS GSX Fan

    Very Interesting

    OUCH-Can't imagine plucking my eyelids!:jd:
    Interesting stuff:beer
     
  5. Bruce Hunter

    Bruce Hunter Well-Known Member

    Iv'e never seen a hippo jump over anything?
    :puzzled: Bruce
     
  6. STAGE III

    STAGE III Lost Experimental 455-4 Bolt Main Block.

    Hard to swallow?

    I think I can swallow the pizza fact, but I'm having the toughest darn time with this ballpoint pen!:laugh:

    Must need beer!:Brow:

    John
     
  7. Greg Schmelzer

    Greg Schmelzer What are you looking at?!

    Hard to swallow?

    John, you are using a computer. Try the keyboard and wipe all the white out off of your screen.:moonu: :laugh: :TU: :beer
     

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