Saturday, April 24, 2010

One last set of useless facts?

v Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.











v Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush landing on it.











v The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.











v No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.











v Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.











v You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.











v Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.











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











v The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.











v A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.











v American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.











v Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.











v Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.











v The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.











v Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.











v The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.











v Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.











v Marilyn Monroe had six toes.











v All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.











v Walt Disney was afraid of mice.











v Pearls melt in vinegar.











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











v The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.











v It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.











v A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why, this is untrue I read a research paper about this last week











v The reason fire stations have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.











v Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal. The second was William Jefferson Clinton.











v Turtles can breathe through their butts.











v Butterflies taste with their feet.











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











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











v On average people fear spiders more than death.











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











v Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.











v Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.











v Women blink nearly twice as much as men.











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











v 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.











v A snail can sleep for three years.











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











v Our eye's retinas are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.











v The electric chair was invented by a dentist.











v All polar bears are left handed.











v In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.











v An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.











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











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











v 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.











v A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.











v The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.











v Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.











v Almost everyone who reads this will try or have tried to lick their elbow.

















At lest one of the above is wrong

One last set of useless facts?
I CAN LICK MY ELBOW!!!!!! I'VE DONE IT COUNTLESS TIMES, TO PROVE THAT WRONG!!! (and no, I didn't just do it; I'm too lazy right now)
Reply:those are great


but yea, the comment about at least one being wrong-the one that you can't fold a piece of paper more than 7 times was proven wrong on mythbusters, they used a huge piece of paper
Reply:I tried to lick my elbow after I read that one.....
Reply:I see you are a fellow collector of useless information!
Reply:Hey i new of eight of these facts!!! And accually i CAN lick my elbow. Not the inner part, but accually the outer part! i first saw that on a birthday card in a store, and tried it. i can do it easily. i have a long neck. I can also touch the tip of my tounge 2 the tip of my nose and the tip of my thumb 2 right below my wrist. So talented i no ;-)
Reply:Wow. I wasted about fifteen minutes and I promise you, if I had the chance, I would do the EXACT SAME THING all over again! Thank you for filling my head with completely useless information!! I'll probably tell someone these fact-like things and bother the heck out of them! Thanks! :)
Reply:Technically Bumble bees are too heavy to fly.


A fly takes off backwards.


Lions are not true members of the cat family


Hyaenas change their sex every year.


Giraffes are the only animal that make no sound at all.


Glass is classed as a liquid.


Banana 'trees' can walk.


My wife spends more money than I earn.

fuchsia

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