Little known facts...

[Gadget]

- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 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 will try to lick their elbow.

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

[Bardsey]

Originally posted by Gadget
[B

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you? [/b]

Yup

[Pammy]

Originally posted by Bardsey
Yup

It's ok, I did too

[Aleks]

Originally posted by Bardsey
Yup

It's much nicer if someone else does it for you

[Claire]

Originally posted by Gadget
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

I want a duck! I really want to test this out... ~chuckling.

Originally posted by Gadget
- 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.

That is scarey!!

Originally posted by Gadget
- No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Nothing rhymes with "orange" either.

Originally posted by Gadget
-A snail can sleep for three years..

~grins... I like this one!

[Jive Brummie]

It's a little known fact that the once 200m sprint champion of America, Michael Johnson, could run the bend quicker than the straight as one of his legs was fractionally shorter than the other..............

I s**t you not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

James......

[Stuart M]

Originally posted by Gadget
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

It is amazing how often this piece of utter tosh gets repeated on the internet. Salford University have proved it's rubbish , with sound files!

- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

I believe it's now traditional to point out "as long as it's still attached to you".

- All polar bears are left-handed.

Isn't it great how the Internet fuels myths? This one is based on some old Inuit folklore, apparently. There may be a tendency, but it doesn't really matter anyway because they still have paw handwriting... Eyyy thank yew!

[Dreadful Scathe]

Further to Stuarts points...

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

No it doesnt. The worlds nuclear weapons are mostly metal tubes in bunkers, what energy are they releasing ?

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

where ? that would probably be on the front of the paper !! people killed by pens ? what country is statistically more likely to have a high rate of fatal pen use...Finland ? Norway ? (mon would have told us)

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Spiders can be creepy and can possibly bite you, death will come to us all. Im more scared of siders too and i like them More people are scared of dying than are scared of death ill think youll find - which isnt the same thing at all .

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants

95 percent of AMERICANS are recent immigrants - 400 years is pretty recent

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

60% of forum members stopped reading this thread 1/2 way through the first post

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

What about people with bad knees ? And Dolphins and Whales ..hard to jump without legs isnt it ?


- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

pull harder!

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The lead singer of Bad Manners did on live tv didnt he ? remember him ?


No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

or orange, silver or purple...apparantly

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

No. there are other two letters ones surley ?

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

but she'd still be made out of plastic !

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The abacus was invented before the accountant. Ink was invented before inkjet printers. Tomato Ketchup was invented before chips. The Keyboard was invented before computers...er....the wooden stake was invented before Buffy ....

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

No wonder theres an obesity problem if they measure pizza by the acre!!! I find Fi is happy with a 12" most days.



can you tell im bored ?

[Emma]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
60% of forum members stopped reading this thread 1/2 way through the first post

You have to read the first post???

I knew I was going wrong somewhere *sigh*

[Jive Brummie]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
I find Fi is happy with a 12" most days.

My God man, no wonder she's always smiling..............

[Emma]

James, I was trying to quietly draw a veil over that comment :giggle:

[Chicklet]

Originally posted by Jive Brummie
It's a little known fact that the once 200m sprint champion of America, Michael Johnson, could run the bend quicker than the straight as one of his legs was fractionally shorter than the other..............

I s**t you not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

James......

I "met" him!!! and all the rest of the BBC team at the World Champs in Paris last summer - INCLUDING my HERO Jonathan Edwards about 2 hours after he retired on the Monday - I swooned.

So James are you a fan and does this mean we get to have an athletics thread for the summer???

[fruitcake]

Hmmmmmmm!
Interesting.......
Yes I did try to lick my elbow, I tried not to , honestly I did,

Personanlly I love spiders, especially big hairy ones!
Fruitcake

[Bardsey]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe

can you tell im bored ?

I must be too, cos I just read all the cr*p you put

Originally posted by Pammy
It's ok, I did too

That goes without saying, my love! I'd have been a tad worried if you hadn't!

[Pammy]

Originally posted by Bardsey
That goes without saying, my love! I'd have been a tad worried if you hadn't!

Only a tad ??? That's my girl !!!

[Stuart]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
Further to Stuarts points...

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

No it doesnt. The worlds nuclear weapons are mostly metal tubes in bunkers, what energy are they releasing ?

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

where ? that would probably be on the front of the paper !! people killed by pens ? what country is statistically more likely to have a high rate of fatal pen use...Finland ? Norway ? (mon would have told us)

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Spiders can be creepy and can possibly bite you, death will come to us all. Im more scared of siders too and i like them More people are scared of dying than are scared of death ill think youll find - which isnt the same thing at all .

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants

95 percent of AMERICANS are recent immigrants - 400 years is pretty recent

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

60% of forum members stopped reading this thread 1/2 way through the first post

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

What about people with bad knees ? And Dolphins and Whales ..hard to jump without legs isnt it ?


- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

pull harder!

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The lead singer of Bad Manners did on live tv didnt he ? remember him ?


No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

or orange, silver or purple...apparantly

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

No. there are other two letters ones surley ?

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

but she'd still be made out of plastic !

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The abacus was invented before the accountant. Ink was invented before inkjet printers. Tomato Ketchup was invented before chips. The Keyboard was invented before computers...er....the wooden stake was invented before Buffy ....

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

No wonder theres an obesity problem if they measure pizza by the acre!!! I find Fi is happy with a 12" most days.



can you tell im bored ?

Nothing rhymes with Chimney either.

[Lory]

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.

Prtety fcuikng Amzanig huh?

[Sheepman]

Azanmenig yes, but dnam hrad to wtire tihs way, did you hvae aynnoe in plucaitarr in mnid?

Greg

[Lory]

Originally Posted by Sheepman

Azanmenig yes, but dnam hrad to wtire tihs way, did you hvae aynnoe in plucaitarr in mnid?

Greg

Erm npoe!

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally Posted by Lory

Erm npoe!

we actually did this last year on some other thread see, theres nothing so amazing that we havent covered it before