42 wierd things.. did you know ?

1.) A shrimp's heart is in its head.



2.) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the

toughest tongue twister in the English language.



3.) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have

over a million descendants.



4.) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria

in your ear by 700 times.



5.) 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?



6.) In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.



7.) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.



8.) 23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people

sitting on them and photocopying their butts.



9.) Most lipstick contains fish scales



10.) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.



11.) 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. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.





12.) 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.



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



14.) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.



15.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or

received a telephone call.



16.) Horses can't vomit.



17.) Butterflies taste with their feet.



18.) In 10 minutes, a category three hurricane releases more energy

than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.



19.) On average 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every

year.



20.) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.



21.) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived

immigrants.



22.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for

dating are already married.



23.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.



24.) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.



25.) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.



26.) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



27.) It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.



28.) 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.



29.) A snail can sleep for three years.



30.) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."



31.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and

ears never stop growing.



32.) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.



33.) All polar bears are left handed.



34.) In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from their

bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.



35.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



36.) TYPEWRITER is the lon gest word that can be made using the

letters on only one row of the keyboard.



37.) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English

language.



38.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.

She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall.



39.) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



40.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.



41.) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.



42.) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their

elbow. (who licked their elbow??)
42 wierd things.. did you know ?
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Reply:glad I'm not the only Mythbuster's fan in the crowd lol



FYI for #30 there is no exact rhyme for ORANGE or SILVER either.



Oh! I didn't try to lick my elbow due to a prior experiment ;) lmao it gets nearly everyone (gonna use it on the kids this evening tyvm)
Reply:Pretty good
Reply:Myth Busters disproved two items, #7 and #11. They were able to record an echo from a duck's quack and they held their eyes open while sneezing. Nobody's eye popped out.



Other items were quite interesting.
Reply:dude i tried to lick my elbow

it is impossible

Dammit

now im a dumbass
Reply:Of everything listed here, I totally get the spider thing!!
Reply:truthfully i did not try.......ive tried to many times before lol
Reply:AHAHAHAHA...

ima such an IDIOT

i actually tried desperately to lick my elbow...



omg, photocopying butts...

ima SOOO gonna try that
Reply:I've heard the echo of a duck quack.



try going to a farm.
Reply:I LICKED my elbow
Reply:THANKS FOR SHARING BABE BUT I CAN LICK THE BACK OF MY NECK!
Reply:That is Hilarious!!!! Also if barbie was a real person, she would be so skinny she wouldnt PMS. ~xox lol and i tried to lick my elbow!
Reply:These are really awesome! Where did you find them?
Reply:oh they are amazing they would help me a lot for my assemblies

thanks a lot for sharing

but i never licked my elbow as my routine for the day was already over!
Reply:35.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.



Just like George Bush.



Hey, you were right! I did try to lick my elbow before I got to number 42. :-)