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interesting yet useless facts


1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3. The names of continents start and end in each case with the same letter.

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

7. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

9. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

10. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

11. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents on of history's greatkings:
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

12. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

13. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

14. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
All were invented by women.

15. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
Answer: Honey

16. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

17. A snail can sleep for three years.

18. All polar bears are left-handed.

19. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

20. Butterflies taste with their feet.

21. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

22. No new animals have been domesticated in the past 4000 years.

23. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

24. Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

25. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

26. An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

27. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Tell the dentist next time you're in one)

28. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

29. Rats multiply so quickly that two rats could have more than a million descendants in 18 months.

30. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase bacteria in your ear 700 times.

31. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

32. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

33. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

34. Ninety-nine percent of people who read this email will try to lick their elbow.
...........................I didnt try to lick my elbow but I did check the calculation :)

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Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 8:46pm)
that is soo cool!!! I'll have to try that when I'm really bored one day...

Now does that also work for non-dairy creamer? I'm lactose intolerant.....
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 6:59pm)
did u know that powder dairy creamer is flamable
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 3:55pm)
However, when you survey people and have them rank experiences that would happen to themselves that are frightening - public speaking ranks higher than death...
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 3:54pm)
That would be in the face of death, the human body would get such an adrenaline rush that would make people do things they normally aren't physically capable of doing...

Two example come to mind:
When my great uncle was in WW 2, he and another soldier were in a jeep driving back to base... the jeep tipped over and his friend was pinned under it... he was able to lift the jeep long enough for the other soldier to wiggle out...

Same story - different people: a young boy in our neighborhood was outside playing in the front lawn. His toy went in the street so he ran to retrieve it. The boy was hit by a car, the mother was walked outside as the boy was being hit by the car and had the strength to lift the car with one arm and pull her child out with the other... Normally she didn't have that kind of strength....
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 3:48pm)
huh? i dont think so pez...sometimes the fear of death can make people do things they never thought they could !
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 3:10pm)
actually people fear public speaking more than they do death...
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 2:37pm)
heres another one:

humans and dolphins are the only species which have sex for pleasure (H)
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 9:17am)
hmm... all of mine are about sexual stuff... lol... but don't read in. ;)
 
Login to find out (April 21, 2006 at 9:16am)
wow! cool...

i know a few:
a pig can orgasm for 30 minutes
blue whales have the largest penis bone on earth
David's (the statue) penis is literally the size of the average forearm
 
Login to find out (April 19, 2006 at 9:33am)
maybe american airlines should re-invest that money into some proper food..take away all alives and get something edible for their passengers
 
Login to find out (April 19, 2006 at 8:29am)
LOL!!!! This is awesome..... olives elimination!!!
 
Login to find out (April 19, 2006 at 8:24am)
wow i've turned into a business guru {wannabe} .. makes a change from a techie.. as i found this fascinating/ hilarious: American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.