- 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 the world's nuclear weapons combined.

- 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.

- 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.

Things that make you go hmmmmm....

Hillbilly Medical Terms

Benign ................ What you be after you be eight.

Bacteria ............... Back door to cafeteria.

Barium ................. What you do with dead folks.

Cesarean Section ....... A neighborhood in Rome.

Catscan ................ Searching for the cat.

Cauterize .......... Made eye contact with her.

Colic ............... A sheep dog.

Coma ............... A punctuation mark.

D&C ................ Where Washington is.

Dilate ............. To live longer than your kids do.

Enema ............. Not a friend.

Fester ............ Quicker than someone else.

Fibula ............ A small lie.

G.I.Series ......... World Series of military baseball.

Hangnail ........... What you hang your coat on.

Impotent ........... Distinguished, well known.

Labor Pain .......... Getting hurt at work.

Morbid .............. A higher offer than I bid.

Nitrates ............ Cheaper than day rates.

Medical Staff ....... A Doctor's cane, sometimes shown with a snake.

Node .................... I knew it.

Outpatient .............. A person who has fainted.

Pap Smear ................ A fatherhood test.

Pelvis ................... Second cousin to Elvis.

Post Operative ........... A letter carrier.

Recovery Room .... Place to do upholstery.

Secretion ....... Hiding something.

Tablet .......... A small table to change babies on.

Seizure .......... Roman emperor who lived in the Ceasarean Section.

Terminal Illness .... Getting sick at the train station.

Tumor ............... More than one.

Urine ............... Opposite of mine.

Varicose ............ Near by.

Hospital ............ The biggest building in town, other than Ed's feed warehouse.

Good stuff. I wonder about the duck quack echo mystery though. That sounds like a myth. All sound waves should echo, although maybe they are cancelled out (like the Bose headphones).:confused:

They actually had that on mythbusters a few weeks ago. turns out that it does echo, it just blends in very well. They rerun the episode on ocasion on TLC I think.

i want to live to be 116 but my chances dont look good.

Good stuff. :D

What I want to know is how some of this stuff is figured out. Such as the left handed polar bears, sleeping snails, and who noticed month doesn't rhyme with anything.

-JiM

I think you left out one more thing from the fun facts. No one is able to lick there elbow

Originally posted by RX-GR8
-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

i don't doubt this is true, but i've never seen a three toed sloth jump...or an anteater...or an armadillo...or a rhinoceros =)

Originally posted by RX-GR8
Hillbilly Medical Terms

HARLEM SPELLING BEE
*Leroy is a 20 year-old 5th grader. This is Leroy's homework assignment.
He must use each vocabulary word in a sentence .*

1. Hotel - I gave my girlfriend crabs, and the hotel everybody.
2. Dictate - My girfriend say my dictate good.
3. Catacomb - I saw Don King at da fight the other night. Man,
somebody get that catacomb.
4. Foreclose - If I pay alimony today, I got no money foreclose.
5. Rectum - I had two Cadillac's, but my bitch rectum both.
6. Disappointment - My parole officer tol' me if I miss disappointment they gonna send me back to the joint.
7. Penis - I went to the doctors and he handed me a cup and said penis.
8. Israel - Tito try to sell me a Rolex. I say, "man, it look fake." He say, "Bullshit, that watch israel".
9. Undermine - There's a fine lookin' ho living in the apartment undermine.
10.Acoustic - When I was little, my uncle bought me acoustic and took me to the poolhall.
11.Iraq - When we got to the poolhall, I tol' my uncle iraq, you break.
12.Stain - My mother-in-law stopped by and I axed her, "Do you plan on stain for dinner?"
13.Fortify - I axed this ho on da street, "how much?" she say "fortify."
14.Income - I just got in bed wif da ho and income my wife.

Originally posted by BRx8
i don't doubt this is true, but i've never seen a three toed sloth jump...or an anteater...or an armadillo...or a rhinoceros =)

Do snails count ? ;)

Originally posted by BRx8
i don't doubt this is true, but i've never seen a three toed sloth jump...or an anteater...or an armadillo...or a rhinoceros =)

Or a white man:D

Originally posted by j1mb0x99
What I want to know is how some of this stuff is figured out. Such as the left handed polar bears, sleeping snails, and who noticed month doesn't rhyme with anything.

-JiM

your tax money at work! gotta love those government financed studies!

armadillos definitely CAN jump.

Originally posted by RX-GR8
i want to live to be 116 but my chances dont look good.

I would like to make 45.....

I've watched an armadillo jump about 4 times its height.

Originally posted by RX-GR8

- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.



oh really i never noticed that in the 16 years ive been taking the cabs in ny.. i just thought English was optional

Originally posted by Speed-ER doc
armadillos definitely CAN jump.

wow, i'd never thought they can jump...like i said i didn't doubt that fact but i'd love to see an armadillo jump...

so what about the sloth or the rhinoceros? the sloth is too slow and the rhinos legs are too short...how bout a hippo? i can't believe these animals can actually jump

Armadillo jumping ability here (with action pic!):
http://www.lsm.us.mensa.org/dillojump.htm

Hippos reportedly cannot jump, but they can run 18 MPH and do many other interesting things as seen here (see "mutual dung-showering in the water"):
http://sailfish.exis.net/~spook/hipptxt.html

Rhinos I don't know. Probly not.

RX-GR8
...- 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 the world's nuclear weapons combined.

- On average people fear spiders more than they do death...

Your like a one man Snapple bottle...:)

i found a few new ones...couldn't resist:

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is ! the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

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

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Originally posted by BRx8
so what about the sloth or the rhinoceros? the sloth is too slow and the rhinos legs are too short...how bout a hippo? i can't believe these animals can actually jump

Baby rhinos can actually be quite frollicky. Cute little buggers.

I'm not sure about the sinking library at the University of Indiana. I'd say it's a myth. I've heard that one about a lot of college libraries, such as the sciences library here at Brown.

There's TONS of animals that can't jump. Anything in the water!!! Not to mention turtles, gators, snails, slugs, and insects.

Originally posted by noahprtlnd
There's TONS of animals that can't jump. Anything in the water!!!

Except dolphins, porpoises, whales, etc...


Many of the things on the lists presented here are incorrect or incomplete/inacurate.

Originally posted by Maniac
Many of the things on the lists presented here are incorrect or incomplete/inacurate.

Wait, wait, wait. Are you trying to tell me that everything I read on the internet is not true?

Why would you stop with the Internet?
If you want lies, try reading a newspaper sometime.
Any newspaper.

Originally posted by Maniac
Why would you stop with the Internet?
If you want lies, try reading a newspaper sometime.
Any newspaper.

Don't get me started on that. I studied journalism for five years. The stuff I learned was amazing.

Originally posted by noahprtlnd
There's TONS of animals that can't jump. Anything in the water!!! Not to mention turtles, gators, snails, slugs, and insects.

i would assume that "animal" isn't the correct term and that "mammal" is...that would certainly disqualify the amphibians, reptiles, and insects

gators CAN jump, though not very far. I can say that with 100% certainty and so can my dead dog :P

Originally posted by RX8Bliss
gators CAN jump, though not very far. I can say that with 100% certainty and so can my dead dog :P

Haha. Well look at that, a lifelong Fla. boy and I didn't even know gators could jump. I guess I'm lucky to have not known...

well, this was in Africa, so i dont know if Florida gators can or not. maybe florida gators are too lazy?

Originally posted by RX8Bliss
well, this was in Africa, so i dont know if Florida gators can or not. maybe florida gators are too lazy?

Was it jumping straight up and down, or leaping? They do sort of leap into the water when startled. I don't really think of that as jumping.

they use their powerful tails to accelerate them out of water to make it appear as if they can jump (out of the water)...while again, i'm not sure about this, i think their legs are too short to be able to jump on land

well, it happened by the riverbank, so i guess you can say the gator lunged out of the shallow edge and snapped up my poor pooch. either way, my dog is dead.
R.I.P Vic (my dog), i hope it didn't hurt too much. (1998-2000)

well, it happened by the riverbank, so i guess you can say the gator lunged out of the shallow edge and snapped up my poor pooch. either way, my dog is dead.
R.I.P Vic (my dog), i hope it didn't hurt too much. (1998-2000)

good stuff.

Long overdue bump:


Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian.

One year on Pluto is 248 earth years.

The average porcupine has over 30,000 quills.

The gold medals in the Olympics are not really golden. 1912 was the last time they were 100 percent gold.

The guillotine was a ghastly beheading mechanism of long ago, right? No. It was last used in France in 1977.

Every square inch of your body has over 32 MILLION bacteria on it.

Each and every one of us spent roughly 30 minutes as a single cell.

The country of India produces more movies than any other country.

There are at least 50 nuclear bombs that have been lost at sea.

In almost all countries, first cousin marriages are legal.

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

Wow nice thread revival.

The average person spends 6 years of his/her lifetime dreaming.

holy bump batman
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh56/NevadaWildcard/Motivational%20Posters/Bump.jpg

Cats can lick any part of their body

The only other creature to have sex for simply pleasure is a dolphin

Dillsrotary can run 40 mph.

^ cant lick the tops of their heads. hence why they lick their feet and then rub their heads.

im thinking dogs have sex simply for pleasure too. what doesnt a male dog hump!?

I clocked you only at 38.6, liar!

you're just jealous you can't lick any part of your body.

^ i know :(

^ i know :(

You'd never leave the house!

There are more insects in just one square mile of fertile soil than there are human beings on the entire planet.

There is enough salt in the world’s oceans to cover all the land on all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.

A cloud to ground bolt of lightning carries between 100 million and 1 billion volts. It can reach 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit – three to four times hotter than the surface of the sun.

The acceleration rate of a flea jumping off a dog is 20 times the acceleration of the space shuttle during launch.

Ten percent of all the humans who have ever lived are alive in the world right now.

Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a person listening to a campaign speech by radio broadcast can hear the words 11,000 miles away before a person sitting at the back of the convention hall where the politician is speaking.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Fixed!

Fixed!

that sentence has no s in it...FAIL

Cats can lick any part of their body



my cat cant lick her butt because she is too fat. true story

Was listening to Denis Miller this morning on the radio and just learned this little bit of info

the guy behind Manheim Steamroller is the same cat that turned Bill Fries into CW McCall for "Convoy" etc. Weird


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Davis

Was listening to Denis Miller this morning on the radio and just learned this little bit of info

the guy behind Manheim Steamroller is the same cat that turned Bill Fries into CW McCall for "Convoy" etc. Weird

Now there's one I've known for decades. It blew me away at the time; the styles were just so different.

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

The sentence is
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
;)

Snopes has the truth about Mister Ed. (http://snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp)

I think you left out one more thing from the fun facts. No one is able to lick there elbow

my friend can... it's kind of weird...

I think you left out one more thing from the fun facts. No one is able to lick there elbow

That's a myth, as I can.

*EDIT* lol, you beat me to it!