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Laura48
08-07-2002, 3:37pm
Someone posted this on another board and I had to share ... Some are definately strange. :nervous:

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

* A snail can sleep for three years.

* Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.

* In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

* "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.

* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

* The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

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

* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

* If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself.

* Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live? That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life. (DO NOT DO THIS)

* The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

* The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"

* It's impossible to lick your elbow.

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

* Rats and 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...try it!

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

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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

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

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

* Cat's urine glows under a black light.

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

NOW DON'T YOU FEEL SMARTER?

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OK, Honestly did you try to lick your elbow? :p

Carol
08-07-2002, 5:31pm
Originally posted by Laura98

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OK, Honestly did you try to lick your elbow? :p

:funny: :funny: :funny: I was wondering how many people would try that! :p

~Carol~

aFinn
08-07-2002, 5:48pm
Originally posted by Laura98
* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.My cat uses about 99. :)

* "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.

* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

* The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard..Yeah, so who had time to figure these out? :huh:

* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itselfEEEW

* It's impossible to lick your elbow.Oh really? I better stop trying then....:rolleyes:

* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said
to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language...try it!No thanks :)

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

* In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.I so did not need to know that!

* Cat's urine glows under a black light.Right. :uhh:

Eilsel
08-07-2002, 6:37pm
Originally posted by Laura98

* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.


OK, 5 of them work that way but what about the other two?

Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia

North America, South America :confused:

aFinn
08-07-2002, 6:44pm
Originally posted by Eilsel


OK, 5 of them work that way but what about the other two?

Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia

North America, South America :confused: I guess the meaning here is only the word America. :)

Eilsel
08-07-2002, 6:56pm
Originally posted by aFinn
I guess the meaning here is only the word America. :)
That's what I thought, but still they're different. I don't like their reasoning.:p

joel
08-07-2002, 9:46pm
Originally posted by Laura98
OK, Honestly did you try to lick your elbow? :p

So close yet so far...but I'll keep trying :p lol

canoilers
08-08-2002, 2:58am
crocs don't really have tongue's it just for bloking water from getting into their throughts.:)

ShaniaLookAlike
08-08-2002, 3:11am
Cat's urine glows under a black light

Why in the world would somebody put cat urine under a black light? :uhh: :funny:

I conclude that they probably put other types of urine under a black light to see if they glowed also. . . therefore finding this little fact about cat urine. :really:

How would you like to have that job? :p

canoilers
08-08-2002, 3:19am
Man, I had a job where I had to clean up a sewer line burst. I think cat pee is no problem after that. so nasty. By the way that was the last time I worked for that company.

canoilers
08-11-2002, 5:43am
your foot and forearm are the same legnth.