Friday, May 1, 2009

weird facts

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a 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.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

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.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint 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.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCA RY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.

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.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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Almost everyone who reads this message will try to lick his elbow.

So, did you try to lick your elbow?