Wednesday, July 30, 2003

AND U THOT U KNEW EVERYTHING.........

>*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
>mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
>
>*Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet
>away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the
flush.
>
>*The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
>plasma.
>
>*No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
>
>*Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
>
>*You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
>
>*Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or
>older.
>
>*The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
>
>*The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
>
>*A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first
>flight.
>
>*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from
>each salad served in first-class.
>
>*Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
>
>*Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
>morning.
>
>*The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
>
>*Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
>
>*The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
>
>*Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike
>factory workers in Malaysia combined.
>
>*Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
>
>*All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
>wearing them in public.
>
>*Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
>
>*Pearls melt in vinegar.
>
>*Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
>already married.
>
>*The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and
>Budweiser, in that order.
>
>*It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
>
>*A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
>
>*The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the
>engines were pulled by horses. The horses where stabled on the ground
>floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
>
>*Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains
>all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William
>Jefferson Clinton.
>
>*Turtles can breathe through their butts
>
>*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 ball-point pens every year
>
>*On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
>
>*Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
>
>*Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. *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."
>
>*Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
>
>*Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
>never stop growing. SCARY!!!
>
>*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
>
>*All polar bears are left handed.
>
>*In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
>including their eyebrows and eyelashes.(Including their private parts?)
>
>*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. Barbie's full name is Barbara
>Millicent Roberts.
>
>*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.
>
>*Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
>
>*Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know. They
>will get a kick out of it !!
>
>P.S. So, did you try to lick your elbow????
>
>Ha ha!c",)