Weird Things That You Would Never Know

Im not sure if I put this in the right catagory, but I thought it fit here.

* 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 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.

* 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 email will try to

lick their elbow.



You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

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