Believe It Or Not!

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  1. flyingbird

    flyingbird New Member

    Believe It Or Not!

    A Person Cannot Lick his / her Own Elbow

    A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

    A snail can sleep for three years.

    All Polar bears are left-handed.

    American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

    Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

    Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

    Butterflies taste with their feet.

    Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

    Cat's urine glows under a black light.

    Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

    Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

    Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

    Humans and dolphins are the only species that have *** for pleasure.

    I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

    If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

    If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

    In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

    It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

    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.

    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.

    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 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 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.
     
  2. guitarandgirls

    guitarandgirls New Member

    Only if...

    :goof: Only if I could have an orgasm like a pig and then sleep like a snail. lol
     
  3. lan12

    lan12 New Member

    This was very informative and funny too :)... Just wondering, if Humans and dolphins are the only species that have *** for pleasure, then how come Some lions mate over 50 times a day....
     
  4. Aka Oz

    Aka Oz /\K/\ - Ozy

    good stuff brooooo
     
  5. apurbajd

    apurbajd ~#$&*$@*^$

    Who found out dat btw?? :think:
     
  6. CrYpTiC_angel

    CrYpTiC_angel Rebelle!

    ^^it's true... the mechanism of ur body would never allow u
     
  7. shsnawada

    shsnawada Cyborgs & Pasta

    Youre putting effort to actually hold your breath. And lets say you become subconcious, you wont have the energy to hold youre breath and will let go...
     
  8. CrYpTiC_angel

    CrYpTiC_angel Rebelle!

    no.. u wont even become subconcious
     

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