And you think you know everything.....

Sanket (!..Live to Give..!) (16427 Points)

23 September 2011  

*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The
spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
       *Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept
at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
       *The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as
substitute for blood plasma.
       *No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7
times.
       *Donkeys kill more people annually than plane
crashes.
       *You burn more calories sleeping than you do
watching television.
       *Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are
fifty years of age or older.
       *The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's
gum.
       *The king of hearts is the only king without a
moustache.
       *A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright
brother's first flight.
       *American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
       *Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
       *Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
*The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are
called aglets.
 *Most dust particles in your house are made from
dead skin.
 *The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of
lung cancer.
 *Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually
than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
 *Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
 *All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just
didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
 *Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
 *Pearls melt in vinegar.
 *The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
 *It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
downstairs.
 *A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
 *The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
 *Turtles can breathe through their butts.
 *Butterflies taste with their feet.
 *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 death.
 *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.
 *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. SCARY!!!
 *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. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
 *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.