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. 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 learn if there is water on the moon. 41. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest
software producing country in the world. 42. The first fossilized specimen of
Australopithecus afarenisis was named
Lucy after the paleontologists’ favorite
song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” by
the Beatles. 43. Figlet, an ASCII font converter program,
stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn’s LETters. 44. Every human spent about half an hour as
a single cell. 45. Every year about 98% of atoms in your
body are replaced. 46. Hot water is heavier than cold. 47. Plutonium – first weighed on August
20th, 1942, by University of Chicago
scientists Glenn Seaborg and his
colleagues – was the first man-made
element. 48. If you went out into space, you would
explode before you suffocated because
there’s no air pressure. 49. The radioactive substance, Americanium –
241 is used in many smoke detectors. 50. The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives,
referred to the hard drives as Winchester
drives. This is due to the fact that the
original Winchester drive had a model
number of 3030. This is, of course, a
Winchester firearm. 51. Sound travels 15 times faster through
steel than through the air. 52. On average, half of all false teeth have
some form of radioactivity. 53. Only one satellite has been ever been
destroyed by a meteor: the European
Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993. 54. Starch is used as a binder in the
production of paper. It is the use of a
starch coating that controls ink
penetration when printing. Cheaper
papers do not use as much starch, and
this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper. 55. Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because
pure silver is too soft to be used in most
tableware it is mixed with copper in the
proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5
percent copper. 56. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a
ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will
bounce higher than one made entirely of
glass. 57. A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has
the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC
computer, which occupied a city block. 58. An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic
reaction, and could be called an atomic
bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves
nuclear reactions and should be called a
nuclear bomb. 59. At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more
sense than the Fahrenheit scale for
temperature measuring. But its creator,
Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist.
When he first developed his scale, he
made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared
point this out to him, so fellow scientists
waited until Celsius died to change the
scale. 60. At a jet plane’s speed of 1,000 km
(620mi) per hour, the length of the plane
becomes one atom shorter than its
original length. 61. The first full moon to occur on the winter
solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first
day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a
full moon on the winter solstice occurred
in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point
in the moon’s orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger
than it does at apogee (the point in it’s
elliptical orbit that is farthest from the
Earth).Since the Earth is also several
million miles closer to the sun at that time
of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger
making it brighter. Also, this was the
closest perigee of the Moon of the year
since the moon’s orbit is constantly
deforming. In places where the weather
was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous. 62. According to security equipment
specialists, security systems that utilize
motion detectors won’t function properly
if walls and floors are too hot. When an
infrared beam is used in a motion
detector, it will pick up a person’s body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to
the cooler walls and floor.If the room is
too hot, the motion detector won’t
register a change in the radiated heat of
that person’s body when it enters the
room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home’s safety might be compromised if
you turn your air conditioning off or set
the thermostat too high while on summer
vacation. 63. Western Electric successfully brought
sound to motion pictures and introduced
systems of mobile communications which
culminated in the cellular telephone. 64. On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone
Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a
secret demonstration of the transistor
which marked the foundation of modern
electronics. 65. The wick of a trick candle has small
amounts of magnesium in them. When
you light the candle, you are also lighting
the magnesium. When someone tries to
blow out the flame, the magnesium inside
the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the
wick. 66. Ostriches are often not taken seriously.
They can run faster than horses, and the
males can roar like lions. 67. Seals used for their fur get extremely sick
when taken aboard ships. 68. Sloths take two weeks to digest their
food. 69. Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat. 70. The pet food company Ralston Purina
recently introduced, from its subsidiary
Purina Philippines, power chicken feed
designed to help roosters build muscles
for cockfighting, which is popular in many
areas of the world. 71. According to the Wall Street Journal, the
cockfighting market is huge: The
Philippines has five million roosters used
for exactly that. 72. Sharks and rays are the only animals
known to man that don’t get cancer.
Scientists believe this has something to do
with the fact that they don’t have bones,
but cartilage. 73. The porpoise is second to man as the
most intelligent animal on the planet. 74. Young beavers stay with their parents for
the first two years of their lives before
going out on their own. 75. Skunks can accurately spray their smelly
fluid as far as ten feet. 76. Deer can’t eat hay. 77. Gopher snakes in Arizona are not
poisonous, but when frightened they may
hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes. 78. On average, dogs have better eyesight
than humans, although not as colorful. 79. The duckbill platypus can store as many
as six hundred worms in the pouches of
its cheeks. 80. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine
years. 81. North American oysters do not make
pearls of any value. 82. Human birth control pills work on gorillas. 83. Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads
give birth to live babies that look like very
small duplicates of their parents. Young
hammerheads are usually born headfirst,
with the tip of their hammer-shaped head
folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth. 84. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours
per day. 85. A biological reserve has been made for
golden toads because they are so rare. 86. There are more than fifty different kinds
of kangaroos. 87. Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season
often reduces the jellyfish population by
putting more fresh water into normally
salty waters where they live. 88. The female lion does ninety percent of the
hunting. 89. The odds of seeing three albino deer at
once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet
one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin,
took a picture of three albino deer in the
woods. 90. A group of twelve or more cows is called
a flink. 91. Cats often rub up against people and
furniture to lay their scent and mark their
territory. They do it this way, as opposed
to the way dogs do it, because they have
scent glands in their faces. 92. Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but
never quite as deep as humans. Instead,
they fall asleep quickly and wake up
intermittently to check to see if their
environment is still safe. 93. Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with
nepetalactone in it. Many think that when
cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects
hormones that arouse s*xual feelings, or
at least alter their brain functioning to
make them feel “high.” Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a
natural bug repellant, but roaming cats
would rip up the plants before they could
be put to their intended task. 94. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
ages the equivalent of five human years
for every day they live, so they usually die
after about fourteen days. When stressed,
though, the worm goes into a comatose
state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep
for about two hundred years. 95. You can tell the s*x of a horse by its teeth.
Most males have 40, females have 36. 96. Money isn’t made out of paper; it’s made
out of cotton. 97. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle
represents the varieties of pickle the
company once had. 98. Your stomach produces a new layer of
mucus every two weeks – otherwise it will
digest itself. 99. The Declaration of Independence was
written on hemp paper. 100. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh
champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass
to the top.

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