Yet another post of Useless information

-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 ball-point 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.

-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

-All polar bears are left-handed.

-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.

-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 will try to lick their elbow.

True? I don’t know. Thought you might enjoy it though
-JonnyD

(You tried to lick your elbow, didn’t you?)

ps I have a friend who seriously can lick his elbow. . . it’s wierd, but he really can do it

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The other 10% have lived there for a month already

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Aaaargh! AAaaaargh! Make it stop! Ducks’ quacks do indeed echo… there are hundreds of them round here, they’re loud little creatures!

Phil

Re: Yet another post of Useless information

All of these (in the same sequence) and more were posted by Spickydoo on 1 May, and have already found their way into my sig line generator.

Klaas Bil

[no sig line for forum posts]

I’ll add one I heard today.
Everyday in the city of chicago there are 300,000 lightbulbs that need to be changed.

…and your source would be, what, some chain email?

This reads like more urban legend. I’m sure some of the facts are true, but it’s highly likely there’s some fiction in there as well.

The Internet ™ : spreading misinformation at The Speed Of Light!

I would have never guessed a Duck Quack doesn’t Echo. No one has ever mentioned it here before.

no there is just one really loud one

Can a worm jump?

futher more , can a whale jump

i want to see a turtle jump…

Dude! That’s just what I was thinking!

I think i whale could if you put it on land. It would probably flop around like any other fish and might be able to jump.

7’2"!!!

This explains why all her cars are convertibles!

Can fat people jump?

Are you a moron? What would make you think they couldn’t?

They’re to heavy

:angry: Don’t criticize fat people. Maybe someday you’ll understand why :angry:

BTW they can jump.

Haha, nice one, hazmat ; )

Lay off dem Twinkies Austin!!!

EDIT: I would also like to add that human beings are not animals…

Yeah we are.