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.
