Things you always wanted to know

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Things you always wanted to 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 millisecond.

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
Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that
consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

In 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.

Mark Yelland-Brown
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Fantastic and fascinating Andrea! I must be one of the happy 25% who didn't!
Liana
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andreeeea..... a crocodile cant stick IT'S tongue out?? OOh the revenge.. the revenge..... :o)))
justyn_thyme
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I don't believe the cigarrette lighter was invented before the match. I may have been invented before the safety match, but not before the match as such. Still, it's a great list, and we can all go down to the zoo and stick out tongues out at crocodiles with total impunity. maybe that should be the venue for the March ABC event! Every paid admission get one free chance to stick his/her tongue out at a crocodile. It could work.
Andrea
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Ah well, I didn't investigste EVERY case, Justyn. And I DID try to lick me elbow - made it, too! (I'm very...um...supple)
mississippi
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So that's why that bloody dysfunctional photocopier stinks of crap!
CMEast
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I havent yet licked my elbow but I'm sorely tempted to since you said you could do it. I cleverly got everyone around me to lick it instead and if I was an empiricist I would say you were right. I love the fact about a ducks quack not having an echo... but how was it found out? (your vision waves and blurs as another, more important, reality swims into focus) Duck 1-Come on lads, loud as you can! Chorus-OooooOOoooooOOOOoooo -They all listen intently- Duck 2- Maybe we werent loud enough, lets try again Duck 1- Yeah, we'll get paid with all the crusts we can eat by those scientist chaps if we can echo, after 3, 1...2...3 Chorus-OoooOOOOOoooooOOOoooo -in the following silence they can just make out something- echo- oo oo oo Chorus- WOOOOHOOOO, WE ARE RICH Duck 1- Crack open the bubbly, we did it Duck 2 snickers quietly to himself Duck 3 (a duck of few words)- What? Duck 2- Sorry chaps, that echo was me, shall we try again The computer moniter fades back in to view accompanied by the sound of a duck getting kicked in by a load of other ducks (one of them silently for some reason!). :D
hoxtoneye
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O.K. which one of you has had my 2,994 ?
fish
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oooooooh .. lippy has fish scales in it? *absurdly delighted*
stormy weather
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I thought the origin of bless you was from when the black death or plague was about in the 1600's. the first sign of the disease was a sneeze. people said 'bless you' in the hope that you may survive. I have resisted the temptation to lick my elbow so far but it is becoming intolerable. I'm still working out if I am an average human being on the sex stats. yours, worried (anon)
andrew pack
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Agree with Stormy, and fancy that some of the others are not actually facts. Given that some people are double-jointed or contortionists, it is difficult to say that nobody can lick their own elbow. And what if they have one arm amputated and then hold it with their other arm at mouth level ? (I know, I'm pedantic, but lateral thinking is important in life. ) Not convinced that 50% of people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. America, all of Europe, China, India, Australia, Japan, South Africa, North African countries all have telephones to my knowledge - that seems to account for quite a lot of people.
Fecky
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I thought the pregnant goldfish was a twat... or is that just me????
Andrea
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Yes, but maybe they haven't actually USED them Andrew. Good point about the contortionists, though. *prepares to amputate arm in order to elbow-lick*
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