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