Did you know .........

1. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

2. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

3. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,
your heart stops for a milli-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 (or attempted to do so - apart from Bones).

6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

8. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphagetti,
Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely
of little pasta swastikas.

9. On average, a human being will have $ex more than 3,000 times and
spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

10. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or
received a telephone call.

11. Rats and horses can't vomit.

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. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

15. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over a million descendants.

16. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.

17. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title
14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented
on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any
contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

18. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

19. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

20. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.

21. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

22. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people
sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

23. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping,
eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

24. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

25. Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

26. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

<font size="2"><font color="red">............[i]I bet you tried to lick your elbow!![i]</font></font> :D :D :D

I think we've seen these before.... And I seem to remember someone here from IW who was actually able to lick his/her elbow or knew someone who was.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by AngelofDeath:
Did you know .........

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.

23. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping,
eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

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13...You can also fracture your nose from sneezing too hard. I know this not from personal experience, but from knowing a woman it happened to so ladies take your calcium supplements!!!

Successive sneezing can also rupture blood vessels in your head (or neck) that will kill you. I witnessed the death of my cousin Rebecca from that very cause.

23...Now that I just did not need to know...I'll never sleep again!

Hey, I can lick my elbow! really I can! guess I am just natualy flexible.

Yeah we have seen them before, and I think it was Durwyn who could actually lick his elbow...please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Did you know .........


25. Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

<font size="2"><font color="red">............[i]I bet you tried to lick your elbow!![i]</font></font> :D :D :D <hr></blockquote>

so does a humans. personal experiance

Ummmm.... Does anyone know of a way to prevent yourself from ever sneezing again? I'm suddenly afraid of doing it...

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Ummmm.... Does anyone know of a way to prevent yourself from ever sneezing again? I'm suddenly afraid of doing it...<hr></blockquote>

<font color="lightgreen"> Stay away from pepper...</font> [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I have some more of these, they are on posters above the toilets in the Student Union bar. I hope I remember them correctly:

1. One mile in every five of interstate highway in the USA has to be perfectly straight. This is so planes can land on it in times of war.

2. Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were Freshman roommates at college (apparently).

3. In the First World War one in three men betweet 17 and 30, in France, were killed. 1 in 3! Dear god...

4. In the Cuban War of Independance 30% of the population of Cuba was killed.

5. When young men in Britain attempted to enlist for the Boer War in 1901 1 in 3 had to be turned away for medical reasons.

Anyway, thats all I can remember. I will try and find the rest for you sometime.

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4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,
your heart stops for a milli-second.

I think People say "Bless You" when you sneeze as a throw back to the
Plague. Sneezing was the first sign/symptom of the plague so people said
"bless you" in the hope that it was just a sneeze & nothing else or
because you had the plague & were about to die soon. This is what the
nursery ryhme "Ring-a-ring-a-rosy" is all about.