mimi37
07-14-2005, 01:45 PM
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as
competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-
handed people do.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average human eats eight spiders at night.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for
blacks and whites.
The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
remember the word you want.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
only one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in
the world.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as
competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-
handed people do.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average human eats eight spiders at night.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body
to squirt blood 30 feet.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for
blacks and whites.
The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
remember the word you want.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
only one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in
the world.