just when you think you know everything

[Harkoliar]

Re: > > > Just when you thought you knew everything...
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The
Re: > > > spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't
Re: > > > know
Re: > > > you're there.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Dentists have recommended that toothbrush be kept at
Re: > > > least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne
Re: > > > particles resulting from the flush.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a
Re: > > > substitute for blood plasma.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7
Re: > > > times.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Donkeys kill more people annually than plane
Re: > > > crashes.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching
Re: > > > television.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty
Re: > > > years of age or older.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's
Re: > > > gum.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > The king of hearts is the only king without a
Re: > > > mustache
Re: > > >
Re: > > > American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
Re: > > > eliminating
Re: > > > 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking
Re: > > > you
Re: > > > up in the morning.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are
Re: > > > called
Re: > > > aglets.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Most dust particles in your house are made from dead
Re: > > > skin.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung
Re: > > > cancer.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually
Re: > > > than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia
Re: > > > combined.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just
Re: > > > didn't
Re: > > > like being seen wearing them in public.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Pearls melt in vinegar.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
Re: > > > ads
Re: > > > for dating are already married.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Re: > > > Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not
Re: > > > downstairs.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president
Re: > > > whose name contains all the letters from the word
Re: > > > "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
Re: > > >
Re: > > > And, the best for last. Turtles can breathe through
Re: > > > their butts
Re: > > >

> The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
> A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
> The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
> Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
> A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
> Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why
> Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
> Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
> donors.
> Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
> More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
> crashes.
> Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
> Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
> Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
> If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> Right handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left handed
> people do.
> The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
> letter in the English language.
> The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
> with.
> The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember
> the word you want.
> TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
> only one row of the keyboard.
> If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
> would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
> The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
> right or right to left.
> A snail can sleep for 3 years.
> American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
> each salad served in first-class.
> China has more English speakers than the United States.
> The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
> Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other
> people in the world.
> I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
> The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
> refers to a distinct part of DNA.
> Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
> never stop growing.
> In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
> If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would
> stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a
> normal human's neck.
> Feb. 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
> The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is
> necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still
> had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and
> whites.
> No word in the English language rhymes with month or orange.
> The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
> gallon of diesel that it burns.
> There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
> Cat's urine glows under a black light.
> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
> In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
> Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
> reaches 2-6 years of age.
> Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
> The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
> Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
> factory workers in Malaysia combined.
> One of the main reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
> growers
> in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition.
> They Still DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
> The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
> If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced
> enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
> The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
> squirt blood 30 feet.
> Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
> Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
> On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
> The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
> You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
> Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
> Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
> You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous
> spider
> In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
> including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
> The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
> Polar bears are left-handed.
> The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1
> for animal having the most taste buds.
> A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to
> death.
> The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
> its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
> Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (now THAT is a stud!!)
> Butterflies and flies taste with their feet.
> Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
> Starfish haven't got brains.
> A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (WoW)

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[johnny]

ROFL Is that really true about Donald Duck ? Man, that's really lame. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

[Harkoliar]

got me there Deathbringer

i also didnt know some like the longest word is 1900+ long and also "Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour" hehe

[adam warlock]

[img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] the last one in DB's post got me grinning

[WillowIX]

Originally posted by Harkoliar: And, the best for last. Turtles can breathe through their butts

This isn´t as species specific as it seems. Sometimes it seems that human males do exactly the same thing! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I´ll just add a LOL here! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[johnny]

Originally posted by WillowIX: quote: Originally posted by Harkoliar: And, the best for last. Turtles can breathe through their butts

This isn´t as species specific as it seems. Sometimes it seems that human males do exactly the same thing! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I´ll just add a LOL here! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]That's absolutely true. [img]graemlins/showoff.gif[/img]

[Megabot]

Puh i knove all that bwhahaha!

[purre]

Originally posted by johnny: ROFL Is that really true about Donald Duck ? Man, that's really lame. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

It isnt banned anymore. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 11-16-2002, 04:08 PM: Message edited by: purre ]

[SomeGuy]

I'm gonna go ahead and get this over with. "I wish I was a pig." [img]tongue.gif[/img]
OH and DB, the one about the continents is'nt true. "South America" Does not start and end with the same letter.

[ 11-16-2002, 04:16 PM: Message edited by: SomeGuy ]