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Sunday, February 18, 2007

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.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

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 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

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.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

"What occurs more often in December than any other month?Conception.

In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill...it took 8 holes!

There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.

The international telephone area code for Antarctica is 672.

The glue on postage stamps in Israel is certified kosher.

A 'Jiffy' is actually a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

Studies 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. (How did they study this?)

The Sun is moving l65 miles a second, the earth is moving l8.l miles a second, think about that when you are about to pee.

In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast.

At 90 degrees (F) below zero your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.Only female mosquitoes bite.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world.

Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving.

Scientists say the average person eats about 2 pounds of bugs a year. That's mostly because insects accidentally get ground up in foods like peanut butter, strawberry jelly, and spaghetti sauce. They won't hurt you, they're actually full of protein.

If an insect flies in your ear, shine a light in you ear, chances are it will crawl or fly back out.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Pound for pound, hamburgers can cost more than a new car.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

People say, "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

(4:59 PM) Dancing with all the stars aboveYYY