Dr Wingnut

Things you didn’t know you didn’t know

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Dr Wingnut
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  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  • 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.
  • Butterflies taste with their feet
  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
  • Cats urine glows under a black light.
  • China has more English speakers than the United States.
  • Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear any pants.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  • Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
  • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  • Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
  • I am.  is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.  NOTE: I think this is wrong.  A shorter English sentence is “Go.”)
  • If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.  She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the Length of a normal human’s neck.
  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  • If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will 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.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  • Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
  • Michael Jordan has 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.
  • One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930’s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
  • 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 words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
  • Some lions mate over 50 times a day (a males dream).
  • 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 in their lifetime 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 in 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 necessary.
  • The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
  • 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. (NPR has reported it is actually 8 credit cards for every man, woman and child in the US.)
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.  (are we lucky or what)
  • 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.
via email, Sat, 8 Apr 2000 07:28:11 -0500; see more at Did you know that…

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