evil_blonde
08-17-2004, 09:18 PM
1: Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest itself
2: A raisin dropped into a glass of champagne will bounce up and down continuously from top to bottom
3:The dot over a letter I is called a tittle
4: A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
6: A ducks quack doesnt echo, no one knows why
6: On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
7: Donald duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants
8: There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple or silver
9: The name Wendy was made up for peter pan, there was no record of the name before that
10: The very first bomb dropped by the allies on Berlin in the second world war killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
11: If you place a tiny drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will go mad and sting itself to death
12: Bruce Lee was so fast they had to slow down his films so you could actually see his moves
13: The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old english law that stated you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
14: By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand
15: Charlie Chaplin once won third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest
16: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
17: Sherlock Holmes never said 'elementary, my dear Watson'
18: The guiness book of records holds the record for the book most stolen from public libraries
19: Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them
20: Bats always turn left when they exit a cave!
another 20........
1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
2. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
3. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
4. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
5. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
6. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
7. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
8. China has more English speakers than the United States.
9. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
10. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
11. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
12. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
13. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
14. In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.
15. Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
16. The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
17. In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.
18. Christmas was once illegal in England.
19. Rain contains vitamin B12.
20. During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
2: A raisin dropped into a glass of champagne will bounce up and down continuously from top to bottom
3:The dot over a letter I is called a tittle
4: A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
6: A ducks quack doesnt echo, no one knows why
6: On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
7: Donald duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear pants
8: There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple or silver
9: The name Wendy was made up for peter pan, there was no record of the name before that
10: The very first bomb dropped by the allies on Berlin in the second world war killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
11: If you place a tiny drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will go mad and sting itself to death
12: Bruce Lee was so fast they had to slow down his films so you could actually see his moves
13: The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old english law that stated you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
14: By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand
15: Charlie Chaplin once won third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest
16: Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
17: Sherlock Holmes never said 'elementary, my dear Watson'
18: The guiness book of records holds the record for the book most stolen from public libraries
19: Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them
20: Bats always turn left when they exit a cave!
another 20........
1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
2. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
3. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
4. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
5. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
6. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
7. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
8. China has more English speakers than the United States.
9. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
10. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
11. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
12. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
13. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
14. In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.
15. Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
16. The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
17. In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.
18. Christmas was once illegal in England.
19. Rain contains vitamin B12.
20. During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.