Weird
Things You Would Never Know
....But
Do Now
(Thanks
to Rob's Mom for sending these in)
A
shrimp's heart is in its head.
The
"sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue
twister in the English language.
Rats
multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Wearing
headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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?
In every
episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
A duck's
quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23%
of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and
photocopying their butts.
Most
lipstick contains fish scales.
Like
fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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.
In
a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single
case wher e an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically
impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A
pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
More
than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Horses
can't vomit.
Butterflies
taste with their feet.
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 ballpoint pens every year.
On average
people fear spiders more than they do death.
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."
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. (FIGURES)
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.