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       1 POST 101 WEIRD FACTS
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 7:35 am
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       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, 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.
       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.
       A crocodile cannot stick its
       tongue out.
       "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.
       The cigarette lighter was
       invented before the match.
       Americans on average eat 18
       acres of pizza every day.
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