THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU DIDN'T KNOW

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THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU DIDN'T KNOW

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

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

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child eaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.

Cats urine glows under a black light.

China have more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered Blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

I am. 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 and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan has made more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in
the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

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

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The most common name in the world in Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.

The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
 

gittyup

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

This is true for some people also.
 

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<< If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. >>

and you'd still nail her
 

raptor13

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Eh.... that's not totally true. I knew some of those!


Not to mention that those typing factoids don't apply to me and anyone else who types with a Dvorak layout. Long like Dvorak!
 

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<< If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. >>

and you'd still nail her
>>


think we should tell mrskoorb anything?
 

raptor13

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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath because you'll pass out before you die and you body will involuntarily start breathing again.
 

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<<

<< You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. >>



why?
>>



Think about it, you hold your breath, pass out and your brain makes you breathe
 

AreaCode707

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<<

<< You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. >>



why?
>>



My guess would be that you pass out, then breathing automatically after you're unconscious.

[Edit] Got beat to it
 

bigrash

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I heard some of those before, but a few of them I never heard. They're very interesting
 

gogeeta13

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<< The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.[/b]
:Q:Q *cough* :Q:Q
 

kamiam

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<<

<< Some lions mate over 50 times a day. >>


I'm a Leo!!
>>

lions tend to lick themselves quite a bit...
 

Swag1138

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<<

<<

<< Some lions mate over 50 times a day. >>


I'm a Leo!!
>>

lions tend to lick themselves quite a bit...
>>



Really?


THEN I MUST BE A LEO TOO!
 

Monel Funkawitz

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<< You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. >>



True. I just tried. You pass out for a about 15-20 sec, and in that time frame, take a involuntary deep breath. You do get dizzy as hell though.
 

AaronP

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"Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing"
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that's not true, our eyes do grow. That's why people shouldn't get Lasik will they're like 25, when the eye stops growing.
 

TheBullGod

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<< China have more English speakers than the United States. >>



LOL!!! but their grammar sucks!! Is it me or should it be China has more....??
 
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