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ØThe housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
ØA pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
ØIf your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
ØThe longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico... (A lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust – mostly found in volcanoes)
ØThe only other word with the same number of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico... its plural.
ØLos Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
ØOnly one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
ØAn ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
ØMel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
ØDr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
ØThe longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
ØThe very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
ØWilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Ø111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
ØIf NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
ØDuelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
ØThe characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
ØIf you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The head's picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
ØIt was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
ØArmoured knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
ØSylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
ØCharles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
ØGoethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
ØA walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
ØIf a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
ØIvory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
ØStudies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
ØYour stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
ØThe Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
ØThe phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Ø101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
Ø'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
ØA whale's penis is called a dork.
ØArmadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
ØArmadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
ØTo escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
ØReindeer like to eat bananas.
ØA group of unicorns is called a blessing.
ØA group of owls is called a parliament.
ØThe phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bed frame. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
Ø"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
ØNo word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Ø(you could always write about an orange door hinge if you got the urge but that isn't a single word. [Jessica])
ØClans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
ØCanada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Ø"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
ØThe term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibre machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
ØThe most common name in the world is Mohammed.
ØThe word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
ØThe international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672.
And there's more !!!
Eating celery uses up more calories than the celery contains
If you sneeze with your eyes open, the force will blow your eyeballs out : )
Theres a small rat-like creature in Kenya that can climb up beer bottles, but only if it p*sses on its paws first.
It is impossible to sneaze with your eyes open, your body shuts down temporarily in order to sneeze...in part...to protect from blowing your eyes out of your head.
In Florida it's aganst the law to shower naked LOL.
the female transfers the egg to the male sea-horse who becomes pregnant
Guitar legend Yngwie Malmsteen is allergic to doughnuts
never pick your nose while in a car sitting at trafic lights-you may get shunted and scramble your brains
There are 371,292 flavour combinations in an average bag of Skittles.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
Who would have guessed!
Hitler used to indulge in watersports with his neice.He would lie on the floor,she would stand over him and then she would unleash the foul,yellow liquid all over his face.Adolf was quite partial to a Bavarian truffle,too.
"Bidet" a convenience used to clean oneself in the bathroom is the French word for pony (and in old French "bider" meant to trot). This comes from the fact that one bestrides or rides the bidet much like one does a pony.
A camel has five feet!
One is centred in the middle of its chest to aid it when getting up into standing position and setting its self back down.
The largest planet discovered outside our solar system is TrES-4. It's 1,435 light years away. It's 70% larger than Jupiter but only 4.5m miles from its sun, so it has a temperature of 1,327 degrees Centigrade, and a year which is equal to 3.55 of our days.
Or
The Earth actually has 2 moons.
Or
Haikou City in China has removed all car licence plates which contain the number 4, as the Chinese word for this sounds like "Death", and is felt to be a bad omen.
"Eenee meenie minee mo" comes from a horrible slavery time song, used when determining if slaves were still alive when the boat docked:
Eenee meenie minee mo
Catch a n.. by its toe,
Eenee meenie minee mo
if it hollers, let it go
The Jesus fish symbol on the back of some people's car is actually a pagan astrological symbolism for the Sun's Kingdom during the age of Pisces.
GHB (Liquid X = Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate) was developed in France 40 years ago to be used as an anesthesia, inducing loss of consciousness or coma.
Paris has 4,082 streets ranging in size from the 394-foot-wide Avenue Foch to the 8-foot-wide Rue du Chat-qui-pêche(street of the cat who's fishing).
My favorite would be that one:
The time variable, though useful to science, is a theoretical construct.
Every year over 50,000 people are taken into the A+E department due to flip flop related incidents.
welsh has more vowels in the alaphabet than english.
Black baseball players already had a 95mph pitch when Babe Ruth played all-white teams.
this is just for fun, i am scottish so it allowed hee hee
Proud To Be Scottish
Being Scottish is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a
Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or ,aTurkish
kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a
Japanese TV.
And the most Scottish thing of all? Suspicion of all things foreign!
Only in Scotland can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
Only in Scotland do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the
back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front.
Only in Sotland do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET
coke.
Only in Scotland do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the
counters.
Only in Scotland do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and
lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
Only in Scotland do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have
call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to
in the first place.
Only in Scotland are there disabled parking places in front of a skating
rink.
NOT TO MENTION..
3 Scots die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
142 Scots were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 Scots are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of
screwdrivers.
31 Scots have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the
fairy lights were plugged in.
19 Scots have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations
were chocolate.
Scottish Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas
cracker-pulling accidents.
18 Scots had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit
cigarette in their mouth.
A massive 543 Scots were admitted to A&E in the last two years after trying
to open bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 Scots were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control
Scalextric cars.
and finally...
In 2000 eight Scots were admitted to hospital with fractured skulls incurred
whilst throwing up into the toilet.
Panama is the only place you can see the sun rise in the Pacific AND set in the Atlantic.
Nobody can lick their own elbow.
How long is your foot? If you place your foot on your lower arm with the heel at your elbow joint, then your toes will be at your wrist joint.
And my personal favourite;
One in every 10,000 men can give themselves a blowj*b.
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