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nismo270r
08-21-2002, 10:32 PM
Got this from another forum...

Did you 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 of 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.

* It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

* 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.

* Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.























You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

KiDyNomiTe
08-21-2002, 10:36 PM
Pick up a snapple for more facts <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'>

DriftMonkey
08-21-2002, 10:40 PM
ahhhh damnit...i did try to lick my elbow...now i feel stupid but those facts were pretty funny

DrDubbleB
08-21-2002, 10:42 PM
Yez, I knew all of that before...but the elbow one is not true...some people can lick their elbow...but most cannot. &nbsp;Fun facts indeed though.

nismo270r
08-21-2002, 10:48 PM
Haha...yeah dubble, but those people can also lick their own....Errrr WHOOPS! Nevermind! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

I think it's basically saying withOUT dislocating anything...lol

Nerfdude
08-21-2002, 11:12 PM
yeah, i tried to lick my elbow. dammit... I CAN'T REACH!!!

drifting240sx
08-21-2002, 11:26 PM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
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haha its so true. i did and couldnt. i felt stupid when it got to the end a read that. oh well that was cool

Cole

SprungScorp
08-21-2002, 11:26 PM
Hahaha...i thought of doing it....but at the same time i thought of writing a reply that said "How many of you tried to lick your elbow?" but then i got to the end of the message...

RedSuns
08-22-2002, 12:00 AM
i almost did it......sooooo close...

DrDubbleB
08-22-2002, 12:04 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (nismo270r @ Aug. 21 2002,12:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Haha...yeah dubble, but those people can also lick their own....Errrr WHOOPS! Nevermind! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

I think it's basically saying withOUT dislocating anything...lol</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Yeah, that's without dislocating anything, otherwise we should all be able to do it! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'> &nbsp;Some people have reallly long tongues...

kurissuS13
08-22-2002, 01:55 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>

I WAS SOOOOOOO CLOSE!!! &nbsp; <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>

kanekz
08-22-2002, 03:42 AM
Maybe that guy from KISS can do it, that gene simmons guy. &nbsp;He has a long tounge. Someone should ask him one day.