jackbutler

Hey everyone, I just received this email of amazing facts, and thought i'd share. Enjoy
(#9 is not true, i know someone who can do it)

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start
with.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a
sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle.
17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle.
18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
20. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
22. A snail can sleep for three years.
23. All polar bears are left handed.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first-class.
25. Butterflies taste with their feet.
26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.
31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and
also smells like Chocolate
40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue
41. Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck
42. And finally 99% of people who read this would try to lick their elbow
now..


cheers,
Jack

alohalc

have read it before but still cool .

my530i

Very funny!

jakethesnake

Wow, I tried to lick my elbow as soon as I read that....amazing!!!!

marty530d

Very Funny !

tachyon

Cool stuff. Didn't go for the elbow thing .. yet.

Tested # 15. Yup, it's correct

Re #10. I once read that we say Bless You when someone sneezes because centuries ago people thought that you lost a bit of your soul when you sneezed.

jakethesnake

Yup, you're in that 1% category.