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* It is impossible to lick your elbow*

* A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

* A shrimp's heart is in their head.

* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because
when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.

*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 (or attempted to do so -
apart from Bones ).

* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the
sky.

* A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

* More than 50% of the people in the world have never
made or received a telephone call.

* Rats and horses can't vomit

* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to
be the toughest tongue twister in the English
language.

* 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.

* If you keep your eyes open by force when you
sneeze, they can pop out.

* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
could have over million descendants.

* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase
the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

* If the U.S. 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?

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads for dating are already married.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows
why.

*23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by
people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

*In the course of an average lifetime you will, while
sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

*Most lipstick contains fish scales.

*Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

*Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

*Butterflies taste with their feet.

*In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy that
all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

*On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point
pens every year.

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

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

* 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:
7pitches.

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

* All polar bears are left handed.

* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from
their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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

*"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.

* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

* Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their
elbow.

COME ON ADMIT IT...WHO TRIED TO LICK THIER ELBOW BEFORE SEEING THE BOTTOM ONE? I DID...