Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Believe It Or Not!

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before
it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an
hour.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have
about ten.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he
doesn't wear pants.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not
to have a full moon.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure.

I am. 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 and have a neck
twice the length of a normal human's neck.

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

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough
gas
is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually
turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would
have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their
bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are
killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they
saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or
older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never stop growing.

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