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Jim Coelho
Legacy #25
Fresno, Ca.
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Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Fw: Weird things!!!!!
Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Butterflies taste
with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average,
100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On
average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads for dating are already married.
Elephants
are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or
older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as
men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an
inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
take into
account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the
building.
A snail can sleep for three
years.
No word in the English language rhymes with
"MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball:
7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our
nose and ears never
stop growing.
The electric chair
was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left
handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair
from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An
ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the
longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the
keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements
would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know.
They
will get a kick out of it !!
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