[Avgustslim]

I don't want to listen to my music today at work now after reading about the headphones and the bacteria.

[GlarlraTpople]

Really, there are some things we're just better off not knowing.
Nevertheless, here goes.....

Did you know .........

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years,
no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in
the sand (or attempted to do so - apart from Bones ).

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti
Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000
times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or
received a telephone call.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the
toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try
to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could
have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does
Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
implemented on July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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

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

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

[mygalinasoo]

Well, my tongue has an ego all it's own and it ain't about to back away from a challenge (well...challenges that don't disgust me anyway)

[Pynctyncroast]

Originally posted by ValJ


A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000
times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

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


Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. Are you sure the goldfish is called a twit?


I was promised two weeks of sex after 3000 weeks of kissing, only 2520 weeks to go.

I know somebody who fractured two ribs whilst sneezing, so I know this is true.

I bet the 35% are all the males who use personal ads.

I did try and lick my elbow, but couldn't get near, Roemello must either have short arms, a long neck or a long tongue. Maybe the tongue and he's been overdoing all that nookie he sings about.

[ebBPxIai]

I tried to lick my elbow when i saw that you couldn't. I was laughing quite hard when it said75% of people will try to lick thier elbow.

[favwebbb]

Originally posted by dancingdoll86
*hangs head*

I tried to lick my elbow.


I didn't, until Roem said he could. **Hangs head with DD** Cheer up, girl, we're just being 'fact checkers'!! Yeah, that's it!

[v74ClzKY]

The "shrimp site" says that their heart is in the top of their midsection.

I REALLY want to know about the Alphagetti / Nazi pasta thing though; that's a new one on me. I couldn't find a single source one way or the other, but my gut feeling is that it's false. I've seen an old picture in a book that showed a reproduction of a poster put out by the state. Underneath an image of Nazi chocolates was a caption denouncing them as "kitsch", which the government frowned on using the swastika in that manner. Plus I just can't see it being manufactured all the way into 1945.

[TubOppomo]

Wow, some of those figures are quite desturbing. LOL

And I'm in the minority. I did not try to lick my elbow.

[UnduttRit]

Do you think that there is a career for us, ValJ? I think that would be fun, fact checking!!!

[MineOffedOvex]

Lift that head up....we goofy people who try out of the ordinary things rule!

[huntbytnkbel]

Almost forgot you're new....you haven't heard the legend of the Roem tongue that stretches just a wee bit past my chin Average arms, average neck....probably could say overdone with the nookie, but that's another story....

[movlabc]

*hangs head*

I tried to lick my elbow.

[feeshyLew]

Some interesting and disturbing facts there. I am especially familiar with the insect and spiders eaten while sleeping!

And I'm with Recker, I didn't try to lick my elbow.

[BariGrootrego]

The link for your second quote says the site isn't available right now. But to save everyone else the trouble of looking this stuff up: Duck's quacks do have an echo; horse's rarely throw up, usually don't, but sometimes it happens near death and such; and rats also don't throw up.

I just copy and pasted this from an e-mail I got. I can't believe you took all that time to look this stuff up!

[TeksPaisimi]

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

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

http://www.seps.org/oracle/oracle.archive ----> Oceanography ----> September 1999 ----> shrimp

Rats and horses can't vomit.

Whaddya know.

Squeak!

[SnareeWer]

A-HA! (link) Thought they'd cover this one eventually.

[marketheal]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.WRONG!! I just did it....it's quite possible Well....if you're a freak like me anyway...