Weird Facts You MIght Never Know

(But Do Now)

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"

is said to be the toughest tongue twister

in the English language.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,

two rats could have over a 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.

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

knows why.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print

is different.

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.

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.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

It is physically impossible for pigs to

look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

More than 50% of the people in the

world have never made or received

a telephone call.

Horses can't vomit.

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 recent immigrants.


Thirty-five percent of the people who

use personal ads for dating are already

married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't

jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to

be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not

downstairs.

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."

Our eyes are always the same size from

birth, but our nose and ears never stop

growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed....pawed!

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY

hair from their bodies, including their

eyebrows and eyelashes.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that

can be made using the letters only on

one row of the keyboard.

Bookkeeping is the only word that has

three double letters.

"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.

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.

Almost everyone who reads this email will try

to lick their elbow.

Note: I got this in email and I cannot verify the truth of any of it - except the elbow thing! LOL