*Forty-Three Weird Things You Probably Never Knew!! (But wil
*Forty-Three Weird Things You Probably Never Knew!! (But will now!)*
1. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
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> > 2. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said
> > to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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> > 3. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
> > could have over a million descendants.
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> > 4. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase
> > the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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> > 5. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then
> > why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal
> > Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it
> > illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with
> > extraterrestrials or their vehicles? (Like I have a
> > choice if I'm abducted by aliens!)
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> > 6. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman
> > somewhere.
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> > 7. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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> > 8. 23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused
> > by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
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> > 9. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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> > 10. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
> > different.
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> > 11. 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.
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> > 12. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
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> > 13. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80
> > years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich
> > buried its head in the sand.
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> > 14. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up
> > into the sky.
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> > 15. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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> > 16. More than 50% of the people in the world have never
> > made or received a telephone call.
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> > 17. Horses can't vomit.
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> > 18. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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> > 19. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy
> > than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
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> > 20. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint
> > pens every year.
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> > 21. On average people fear spiders more than they do
> > death.
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> > 22. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are
> > recently arrived immigrants.
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> > 23. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
> > ads for dating are already married.
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> > 24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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> > 25. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116
> > or older.
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> > 26. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
> > downstairs.
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> > 27. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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> > 28. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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> > 29. 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.
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> > 30. A snail can sleep for three years.
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> > 31. No word in the English language rhymes with
> > "MONTH."-----or ORANGE
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> > 32. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but
> > our nose and ears never stop growing.
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> > 33. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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> > 34. All polar bears are left handed.
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> > 35. In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from
> > their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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> > 36. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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> > 37. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
> > using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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> > 38. "Go," is the shor-*test*-('") complete sentence in the
> > English language.
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> > 39. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be
> > 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
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> > 40. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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> > 41. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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> > 42. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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> > 43. Almost everyone who reads this email will try to
> > lick their elbow. (But not me or you.)
