And You Thought You Knew Everything!

dmcowen674

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A little humor to break up some of the early Election monotony.

This came in from the guy from on here that sends me E-mails like "Walmart is hiring, get your lazy butt stocking those shelves":

And You Thought You 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.

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 were stabled on the ground loor 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.

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

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.

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 tand 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 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????

 

Witling

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Well, I did know most of it. But I thought Marilyn Monroe had extra toes. "Marilyn Monroe had six toes." Man, she was really running short (no pun intended).
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Whitling
Well, I did know most of it. But I thought Marilyn Monroe had extra toes. "Marilyn Monroe had six toes." Man, she was really running short (no pun intended).

I think that is worded wrong, I believe she had an extra toe on each foot or at least one.

I knew most of them too except about the Nose and Ears keep growing, ewwwww, explains why people seem to grow out of their ears and men get big noses looking like they are drunk and haven't had a drink.

Also about all Polar Bears being left handed, guess they are only "right" brained.




 

nodak8

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"Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise."

Clockwise? Typical northern hemisphere bias!

Sure, Earth and every planet but Venus rotate counter-clockwise when looking at the north pole, but what about when you look at the south pole? Huh? That's what I thought! Clockwise!
 

Witling

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Curiosly enough, this planet rotation is interesting. I thought there was one of the outer planets that had it's poles tipped very near the plane of its orbit. Which way is north? Obviously the observation about rotation assumed that there was a "top" and "bottom" to the solar system.

EDITED: I Guess I should be drifting out to the "Highly Technical" forum with this one.
 

Zephyr106

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The one about duck quacks not echoing is false. IIRC that Discovery Channel show Mythbusters proved it wrong.

Zephyr
 

Genesys

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674


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????


yes :D :eek:
 

glugglug

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
7 folds in half = 128 pages thick. It IS possible but not with standard 8.5x11 printer paper. It requires either a really large sheet to start with (like poster size) or thin tracing paper.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
What if I watch TV while sleeping? (I really do this occasionally...) It makes sense in a sick sort of way; gotta keep the mind sedated for the commercials.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Interesting. This is also true of OJ. Wonder which is better for this oranges or apples. With Mountain Dew you get the best of both worlds (OJ + caffeine), unlike orange sodas today which have all changed their formula to contain red and yellow food coloring (and no longer contain anything from an orange).

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Not entirely true. In a sick sort of way they come from dead skin, but it's not like your skin just flakes off and becomes dust. Dust = dust mite crap (literally), and dead skin is the dust mite's preferred food.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Might have to disagree there.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Depends on your accent. In parts of the southeast it ryhmes with wise and beautiful woman.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would tand seven feet, two inches tall.
The stats I've seen before on this specific issue are 57-24-36. She is quite clearly not a 39 bust especially if you scale her height to be 7'2" rather than a more normal height.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
See the link about animals that can't jump.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
Nah, that has been tried too many times in this forum already.