Wednesday, January 26, 2011

FACTS!!! :P

Just some random facts for you guys!! :D 


*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.
*Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
*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.
*All polar bears are left handed
*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.
*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* "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.
*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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