Weird Things You Would Never Know!!

(and might not ever care to know..)

 

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

BUSTED! Harvard University built a special studio specifically to study echoes

and proved once and for all, A DUCK'S QUACK DOES IN FACT ECHO!

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Sorry, but I'm not buying that either\ and who figured that out anyway?

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

 

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

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 longest one syllable word in the English language is “screeched”.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it 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, ORANGE, SILVER

or PURPLE."

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!!!

(I'm not buying that one either.)

 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

How did they come up with this one? Anyway it would be left pawed. The don't have hands.

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

STEWARDESSES” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

How about "stop"

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.

Almost everyone who reads this email 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 !!

 

PS... So, did you try to lick your elbow????... i bet you did!!!!

 

 

 

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