Re: Useless trivia but something to pass the time

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I think that reading this is wonderful therapy!!! LOL Thank you very much.Ila <sewcraftyila@...> wrote: Did you know... It is impossible to lick your elbow.A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.A shrimp's heart is in its head.In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the

sand. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.Horses can't vomit.The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with

extraterrestrials or their vehicles? I really want someone to explain this to me.In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.Most lipstick contains fish scales.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. Donkeys kill

more people annually than plane crashes. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the brother's first flight.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. The reason

firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was Jefferson Clinton.Turtles can breathe through their butts. 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 ball-point pens every year.On average people fear spiders more than death.Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.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. SCARY!!!The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 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. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent .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.The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched.""Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" Almonds are members of the peach family. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." Update from : - UNDERFUND also begins and ends in UND. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural:pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinadelos Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of itssize,L.A. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. (so didShakespeare) Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no

two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there,he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. *comment below* writes: "Scientists have long since proven that goldfish have quite long memories. They are capable of learning to use lever systems to release food into the tank, and remember the exact procedure after not having used it for several days. This myth is brought about by the belief that goldfish will eat until they die. In actual fact, what kills the goldfish is excess food rotting in the tank / bowl, which releases toxic ammonia." Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be

dribbled like a basketball. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." If you

yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas s produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet... (O.M.G.!) A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the......?!") The flea can jump

350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??) The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....) A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like

that.) Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.) Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer...) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig??) Comment by Dave :Bonobo chimpanzees are also known to have sex for pleasure. Humans and Bonobos are, however, the only two species of primates (out of 180 ) that have sex facing each other. It's noteworthy that we also share over 98% of our genes with Bonobos. Ila in Maine mailto:sewcraftyilametrocast (DOT) netOwner:JEFLOVERS/ MOD:sewmurkot/ "Life's a journey, not a destination" Tyler (Aerosmith)

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