40 Things you didnt know

[01XJ]

40 things you didn't know

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

2) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

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

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

5) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

6) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

7) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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

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

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

11) The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

12) Pearls melt in vinegar.

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

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

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

16) Turtles can breathe through their ears.

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

1

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

19) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

21) 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.

22) A snail can sleep for three years.

23) No word in the English language rhymes with MONTH.

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

25) All polar bears are left handed.

26) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

27) A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

2

Giraffes can't cough.

29) DREAMT is the only English word that ends in the letters MT.

30) Mona Lisa has no eyebrows in Leonardo Da Vinci's painting.

31) A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

32) A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

33) Shakespeare invented the words ASSASSINATION and BUMP.

34) The longest earthworm in the world was reported to exceed 150 ft.
in
length.

35) A shrimp's heart is in its head.

36) The only word in the English language with all the vowels in reverse
order is SUBCONTINENTAL.

37) A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze
through.

3

The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

39) An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.

40) Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

 

[ILoveRCRockCrawlin]

:lol: I tried it.

 

[xjman]

By the way, the sinking library is false. I don't remember what I saw it on, but its not true. There is no college library on the face of the planet that is sinking.

The rest are pretty intersting.

 

[hotrodzach]

41) almost everyone who licked their elbow will laugh after reading number 40
-Dalton

 

[kris]

2 teaspoons of Botulism can kill every person on Earth,,it is the main ingredient in Botox.

 

[Robb]

http://www.dcmsoft.com/rumor/story/stuff1.htm

Fun stuff to read, but many are incorrect.;-)

 

[rockwerks]

2) Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

myth busters blew that one out of the water. they did their test with the toothburshes at various distances away from the toillet and all had the same amount of bacteria on them, from the one on the back of the tiolet to the one 1o feet away.

the one with the worst contaminants was put in the kitchen:lol:

 

[Robb]

myth busters blew that one out of the water.

Yep, they also tested the "A duck's quack doesn't echo," myth, and busted it."thumbsup"

 

[rockwerks]

Yep, they also tested the "A duck's quack doesn't echo," myth, and busted it."thumbsup"

as quoted by bigfoot: NO myth is safe!

 

[thaclodking]

Turtles can breath through their anus, not their ears. What's that smell?

 

[Mad Scientist]

I like strange facts, but some of these are not entirely correct.

4) No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
A full sheet of newspaper can.

15) A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
That's just silly. You just don't hear it because ducks don't generally live where echos can be created.

16) Turtles can breathe through their ears.
Turles can absorb oxygen through thier skin like a frog, so in that instance this could be considered somewhat true. But turtles don't have en external ear opening, so it's not like they can draw in air as they do through thier nostrils.

32) A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
Not necessarily. I suppose if they get eaten right away. But most dragonflys live for 1-3 years as a larva underwater, and sometimes as long as 6-7 months after maturing into an adult in warm climates.

34) The longest earthworm in the world was reported to exceed 150 ft.
in length.
I doubt it. Although African species can reach up to 22ft.

 

[Cloak]

Shhhh, why let the facts get in the way of reposting email chain letters!