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beargonewild -> 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 11:26:43 AM)
1.) A shrimp's heart is in its head. 2.) The 'sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. 3.) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. 4.) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 5.) 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? 6.) In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. 7.) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 8.) 23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. 9.) Most lipstick contains fish scales 10.) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. 11.) 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. 12.) 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. 13.) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 14.) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. 15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 16.) Horses can't vomit. 17.) Butterflies taste with their feet. 18.) In 10 minutes, a category three hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. 19.) On average 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 20.) On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 21.) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. 22.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 24.) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 25.) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs. 26.) Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 27.) It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. 28.) 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. 29.) A snail can sleep for three years. 30.) No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.' 31.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 32.) The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 33.) All polar bears are left handed. 34.) In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 35.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 36.) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 37.) 'Go,' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 38.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall. 39.) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 40.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 41.) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 42.) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.

darchChylde -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 11:38:11 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: beargonewild 7.) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. When examined by an audio-expert, it was found that the echo was "swallowed" by the original quack, due to the very similar acoustic structure between the quack and the echo. Because of this, it may be difficult to tell where the quack ends and the echo begins. Normally, a sound and its own echo have very different waveforms on an oscilloscope. As it turns out, a duck's quack and its echo have a very similar waveform. Oscilloscope analysis of a duck's quack/echo could lead someone to not "see" the echo waveform on the display, only the source waveform. In the same way, human hearing may not perceive the difference between a duck's quack and its echo due to the similarities.

lonelyblueboi -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 12:28:58 PM)
Thank Y/you darchChylde! Apparently whoever made the list isn't a Mythbusters fan! Also, I'm pretty sure the size of the eyeball does change. I doubt newborns and adults have the same size eyes! Ears, although they change in size, stay proportionate throughout life, almost like a fingerprint!

LivingInSin -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 3:37:47 PM)
woo hoo! I didn't try to lick my elbow! I thought about it though :)

StrongSpirit -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 4:11:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: beargonewild 5.) 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? Extrarrestial is specifically defined as any object or person that has had contact with an extraterrestrial object. That is, any astronaut that lands on the moon counts as an extraterrestrial, and so do their vehicles. I won't deal with the duck quak, it has already be debunked above. quote: 11.) 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. Again, Mythbusters proved the eye thing wrong, which makes me doubt the rib or blood vessel thing as well. quote: 15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Twenty years ago this was true. I bet Japans effort to sell cellphones throught Asia, filling India and China with cell towers means this statistic is no longer true. quote: 21.) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. I bet this one requires a very liberal defintion of the word "recent". Contrary to popular belief, you need to have an american license, which takes time to get. NYC is not conductive to getting a license, as it is not easy to learn to drive here. More importantly there are FAR more jobs that are easier to get, require no license, require no fluency in English, require no skill in a fairly small distance around NYC. quote: 22.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. Again, #22 sounds like a very out-dated stat. Probably true before the emergence of eharmony and match.com, but I doubt it's so anymore. quote: 23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Define jump. Then think about snakes. quote: 28.) 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. Another myth busted - this time by snopes. quote: 38.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall. # 38 is blatantly stupid. Life sized means you make her whatever size you want. You can either use an average height and get her bust/waist/hips measurement or you can set her height to be something stupid and get wierd bust/height/hips. quote: 40.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Outright false. LIghter came in 1823, first match sold in 16th century. The matches that are strike anywhere were invented in 1805.

darchChylde -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 4:11:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LivingInSin woo hoo! I didn't try to lick my elbow! I thought about it though :) Same here, i actually didn't even try to lick my elbow. But i did so the first few times i've seen one of these.

HypnoticDan -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 5:05:24 PM)
There's nothing that rhymes with orange, either. Cats get a really funny look when you hit them with a shovel.

camille65 -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 5:35:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: HypnoticDan Cats get a really funny look when you hit them with a shovel. Wow! They really do! Neat thing is that you can use the shovel later to get rid of the evidence.....

darchChylde -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 5:43:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: HypnoticDan There's nothing that rhymes with orange, either. That's the first thing i thought of when the one about month was mentioned. I remember the old "nothing rhymes with orange" line since i was a kid, and i always thought "there's another word in Crayola's box of 8 basic crayons that got no credit for the same distinction... purple." And no, not being an actual word in the english language; "nurple doesn't count".

GreedyTop -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 6:22:35 PM)
burble :)

darchChylde -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 6:32:27 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: GreedyTop burble :) Apparently i was wrong.

VadFarkas -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/21/2008 6:38:13 PM)
I always remember Maple Slurple... damn I need help... I read every post in this thread. And it severely impaired my spelling abilities!

Sindel -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (8/22/2008 5:29:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: StrongSpirit quote: ORIGINAL: beargonewild 15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Twenty years ago this was true. I bet Japans effort to sell cellphones throught Asia, filling India and China with cell towers means this statistic is no longer true. Take into consideration the infants and small children, poor, Amish, Bushmen/ other religious or lifestyle choices that would prevent a person from doing that quote: 23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Define jump. Then think about snakes. And snakes can jump. They coil up and spring into the air.

MadAxeman -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/11/2008 7:51:01 PM)
Doorhinge

MarksFantasyGirl -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/11/2008 10:28:56 PM)
Three Truths in Life: 1) You can't touch all your teeth with your tongue. 2) You're a moron because you just tried. 3) Now you're smiling because you're a moron! HAHAHA!

GreedyTop -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/11/2008 11:18:02 PM)
quote: 9.) Most lipstick contains fish scales I just caught that one... goes to throw out my lipstick

hopelessfool -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/11/2008 11:28:01 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MarksFantasyGirl Three Truths in Life: 1) You can't touch all your teeth with your tongue. 2) You're a moron because you just tried. 3) Now you're smiling because you're a moron! HAHAHA! Actually you can. even the wisdom teeth ^_^

persephonee -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/12/2008 6:07:05 AM)
i think i have a hootchie tongue cuz i can lick my elbow and touch all my teeth....and type.

SomethingCatchy -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/12/2008 8:16:44 AM)
I can't lick my elbow [:(] yes... I tried.

DesFIP -> RE: 42- Weird Things You Would Never Know!! (9/12/2008 5:23:31 PM)
Not only can horses not vomit, they also can't burb. Thus making the song "Beer For My Horses" wrong. In actuality, a horse with colic should be given a fifth of whiskey and a gallon of corn oil and then walked around until they start pooping. Although they will drink soda, it shouldn't be given to them.

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