From: asrp (asrp@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:15:14 EEST
> > > Here are some facts you may not have been aware of.
> > > >
> > > > A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
> > > >
> > > > A snail can sleep for three years.
> > > >
> > > > Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
> > > >
> > > > Butterflies taste with their feet.
> > > >
> > > > Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
> > > >
> > > > February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
> > full
> > > > moon.
> > > >
> > > > If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
> > > would
> > > > never end because of the rate of reproduction.
> > > >
> > > > In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
> > > >
> > > > Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
> > > >
> > > > "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand,
> > > > "lollipop" with your right.
> > > >
> > > > The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
> > diesel
> > > > that it burns.
> > > >
> > > > The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
> > start
> > > > with.
> > > >
> > > > The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read
> > left
> > > to
> > > > right or right to left.
> > > >
> > > > TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
> > only
> > > on
> > > > one row of the keyboard.
> > > >
> > > > Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> > > >
> > > > If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend
> > an
> > > > average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
> > > >
> > > > In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
> > a
> > > > watch face is 10:10.
> > > >
> > > > The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
> > > solid.
> > > >
> > > > Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week
> > > otherwise
> > > > it will digest itself.
> > > >
> > > > There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
> > > >
> > > > There are two words in the English language that have all five
> > vowels in
> > >
> > > > order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
> > > >
> > > > There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which
> > > occurs
> > > > five times: "indivisibility."
> > > >
> > > > The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there
> > > were
> > > > three gifts.
> > > >
> > > > Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they
> > live?
> > > >
> > > > That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be
> > > little
> > > > for the rest of its life.
> > > >
> > > > A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the
> > air
> > > is
> > > > a skein
> > > >
> > > > A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
> > > >
> > > > Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
> > > >
> > > > The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
> > every
> > > > letter of the alphabet.
> > > >
> > > > The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
> > letter
> > > is
> > > > "uncopyrightable"
> > > >
> > > > Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
> > > >
> > > > It's impossible to lick your elbow.
> > > >
> > > > 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...try it!
> > > >
> > > > Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
> > your
> > > ear
> > > > by 700 times.
> > > >
> > > > 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 anywhere, and no one knows why.
> > > >
> > > > In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
> > > > assorted insects and 10 spiders.
> > > > (I didn't need to know that!!)
> > > >
> > > > Most lipstick contains fish scales.
> > > >
> > > > Cat's urine glows under a black light.
> > > >
> > > > Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
> > > >
> > > > NOW DON'T YOU FEEL SMARTER?
> > > >
> > > > OK, Honestly did you try to lick your elbow?
> > > >
> >
Thanks,
Rick
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