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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

LITTLE KNOWN FACTS

  1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.

  2. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

  3. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

  4. A shrimp's heart is in their head.

  5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.

  6. 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 (or attempted to do so).

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

  8. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

  9. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

  10. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.

  11. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

  12. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

  13. Rats and horses can't vomit.

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

  15. 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.

  16. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

  17. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

  18. 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?

  19. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

  20. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

  21. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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

  23. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

  24. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

  25. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

  26. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

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

  28. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

No need to thank me...its my pleasure to bring you these facts
just keeping you informed!!!!

7 comments:

Sally's World said...

wow, i learned alot....but i'll never wear earphones again...yick!

RileyScott said...

maybe that's why I get so many ear infections. Honestly I doubt the validity of many of these statements. I am not saying in any way that Dena is trying to deceive, but the facts she received probably were false to begin with.

Example: A ducks quack DOES echo. This is from the mythbusters wikipedia page, and I also saw this episode.

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 mistake the echo waveform for part of the source waveform, due to the way in which they blend together. In the same way, human hearing may not perceive the difference between a duck's quack and its echo.

RileyScott said...

Oh, and I'm pretty sure all urine glows under blacklight, human included

~Tom~ said...

Yes, the average person will have sex over 3000 times....and then they get married!

Kathy B! said...

Is it wrong that I just spent a solid couple of minutes trying to lick my elbow?! And why is it that when someone says I can't it makes me try REALLy hard...?

Joyful said...

I'm a little freaked about the shrimp's heart being in its head. But I guess that makes sense.

And a pig can't look to the sky. hmmm.

Have a great day!

Lady of Perpetual Chaos said...

Interesting. The headphone one freaked me out a little. I have germ issues....