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psyknarph
3rd Mar '08 Mon, 06:38
Weird Things You Would Never Know!!!

1. Butterflies taste with their feet.

2. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

3. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the worlds nuclear
Weapons combined.

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

5. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

6. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

7. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (Probably a good thing!)

8. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

9. it’s possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.

10. it’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

11. 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.

12. A snail can sleep for three years.

13. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

14."Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end with the letters "mt"

15. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (Barry Manilow and Prince Charles must be worried)

16. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Figures...bastards!)

17. All polar bears are left-handed.

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

19. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

21."Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

22. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

23. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

24. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

25. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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

27. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

28. Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow. Don’t forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know.:thumbsup:

DrGerbil
26th Mar '08 Wed, 10:25
auz ha!

Zack
27th Mar '08 Thu, 04:36
:thanks: for the Good Info:salute:

langbalutdito
27th Mar '08 Thu, 04:47
Erratum:

#2. A duck's quack DOES have an echo. It's just that the return sound wave is almost identical to it's source that they almost cancel out to a very inaudible-to-the-naked-ear sound.

nybee
27th Mar '08 Thu, 10:04
wow astig...hahaha dami nako matatanong sa mga kaibigan ko..magmumukhang matalino nako sa wakas....hahahaha..:dance:

psyknarph
27th Mar '08 Thu, 10:47
Erratum:

#2. A duck's quack DOES have an echo. It's just that the return sound wave is almost identical to it's source that they almost cancel out to a very inaudible-to-the-naked-ear sound.

ayun huli...!!! :salute: email lang po sa akin yan kasi eh.. Notice nyo po ba yung last?? :lol:

lahat po ng bagay na nagpoproduce ng sounds ay me echo... depende nga lang po talga sa sound waves ng echo....(as far as i know)

janelouie
2nd Apr '08 Wed, 15:46
..nice article eto...mkopya nga...salamt d2..

slam21
14th Apr '08 Mon, 02:44
astig 2 ngaun ko lng nalaman..:salute:

ferofax
18th Apr '08 Fri, 23:15
i didnt try licking my elbow. somebody already beat me to it. :D

losoka
18th Apr '08 Fri, 23:43
thanx for the very informative post..

Chidori13
19th Apr '08 Sat, 11:20
weee! astig! :thumbsup:

Midori
24th May '08 Sat, 13:34
:clap: nice Psykie Bro :clap:

yvescore
18th Jun '08 Wed, 15:43
Nice!

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