A few facts to get your brain in gear.

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aussie_shark_bait

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A few facts to get your brain in gear.

1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
2. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
3. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
4. A shrimp's heart is in their head.
5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
6. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no-one reported a single case where and ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
7. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
8. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
9. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
10. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary School.
11. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
12. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
13. Rats and horses can't vomit.
14. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tounge twister in the English language.
15. 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. If you could keep your eyes open by force, they would pop out.
16. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
17. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
18. 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?
19. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
20. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
21. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
23. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
24. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
25. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
26. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
27. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Now, did you try to lick your elbow ???

ASB - I have to admit i tried..
 
lol .. again you are on a roll today.

And NO I didn't attempt to lick my eyebrow.
 
LOL!
No NiNman elbow, not eyebrow.

Now if you could lick your eyebrow...well...
 
aussie_shark_bait:
5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second.
This tradition dates back to the days of the Plague in Europe. Sneezing was one of the first symptoms, so when one sneezed, it was read as a sign of their impending death, thus, one would say "God bless you" as they would to any dying person.
The heart skipping a beat is also referred to in another myth that states that if you sneeze three times in a row, you will go into cardiac arrest and die. Speaking from experience, this is not true. I've survived 4 and 5 sequential sneezes.
22. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
This was disproven on the TV show "Mythbusters".
The quack itself, graphed on a computer, displays characteristics similar to an echo, thus, the echo is mistaken as a part of the quack, but the echo does appear on the graph.
It's almost as hard to see as it is to hear.


Damn... I can get to within 2 inches :D
 
now those are fun :)

I found these yesterday and got quite a laugh out of them myself
http://www.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html

Especially "Everyone who believes in psychokenesis raise my hand" LOL

P.S. I told my neighbors about the elbow one and their 10 year old daughter can do it - oh well . . . more flexibility than I've ever dreamed of having
 
RichLockyer:
This tradition dates back to the days of the Plague in Europe. Sneezing was one of the first symptoms, so when one sneezed, it was read as a sign of their impending death, thus, one would say "God bless you" as they would to any dying person.
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As is clear in the childrens nursery ryhme "Ring a ring of Roses" in the last two lines:

Atishoo, Atishoo,
All fall down.
 
2. I can lick peanut butter off my elbow. The end of my elbow.
13. My sister's horse died while vomiting. Really gross.
 

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