1. It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
2. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze
because when you sneeze,your heart stops
for a mili-second.
5. 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.
6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up
into the sky.
7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
(busted?)
8. More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone
call.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a
rib.
11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can
rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck
and die.
12. If you keep your eyes open by force when
you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
13. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million
descendants.
14. Wearing headphones for just an hour will
increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.
15. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a
Superman somewhere.
16. The cigarette lighter was invented before
the match.
17. Thirty-five percent of the people who use
personal ads for dating are already married.
18. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one
knows why.
19. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are
caused by people sitting on them and
photocopying their butts.
20. In the course of an average lifetime you will,
while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and
10 spiders.
21. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
22. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
different.
23. Over 75% of people who read this will try to
lick their elbow.
24. A crocodile can't move its tongue and
cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so
strong that it can digest a steel nail.
25. Money notes are not made from paper, they
are made mostly from a special blend of
cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage
of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington,
USA, notes were made out of wood for a
brief period.
26. The Grammy Awards were introduced to
counter the threat of rock music. In the late
1950s, a group of record executives were
alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n
roll, considering it a threat to "quality"
music.
27. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737
BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea
leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling
water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908
by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
28. Over the last 150 years the average height
of people in industrialised nations has
increased 10 cm (about 4 inches). In the
19th century, American men were the tallest
in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6". Today,
the average height for American men is
1,75m (5'7", compared to 1,77 (5'8" for
Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5" for the Dutch. The
tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of
Burundi.
29. In 1955 the richest woman in the world
was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an
estate of $95 million in a will that was found
in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen
Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the
Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest
women in the world.
30. Joseph Niepce developed the world's first
photographic image in 1827. Thomas
Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the
film camera in 1894. But the first projection
of an image on a screen was made by a
German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher
used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-
painted images onto a white screen.
31. In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols
refused to accept the Oscar for his movie
The Informer because the Writers Guild was
on strike against the movie studios. In 1970
George C. Scott refused the Best Actor Oscar
for Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused
the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.
32. The system of democracy was introduced 2
500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest
existing governing body operates in Althing
in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.
33. A person can live without food for about a
month, but only about a week without
water.
If the amount of water in your body is
reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
34. According to a study by the Economic
Research Service, 27% of all food production
in Western nations ends up in garbage cans.
Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the
same number of people who are
overweight.
35. Camels are called "ships of the desert"
because of the way they move, not because
of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary
camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel
two humps. The humps are used as fat
storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will
not have a hump.
36. In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there's a
creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You
can't pick up clear TV or radio signals. And
locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the
sky.
37. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox,
Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
38. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a
company that created machines which
recorded the number of cars passing a
given point on a road.
39. Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
40. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene
Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S.
Geological Survey astronomer, trained the
Apollo astronauts about craters, but never
made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had
wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected
because of a medical problem. His ashes
were placed on board the Lunar Prospector
spacecraft before it was launched on
January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe
into a crater on the moon in an attempt to
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