[lfjokes] Eclectic information...

[Simondo]

I make no warranty regarding the veracity of the following... :o)


Did you know........
 The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

 The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
[With Aussies at the top of the bell curve.  Huntsman.  Yum.]

 The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in
 1896.
 Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

 Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.

 More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
 plane crashes.

 Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

 If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
 white.
[And be constantly surprised by it]

 The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
 remember the word you want.

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

 A snail can sleep for 3 years.  (they call it Yasmin)

 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
 from each salad served in first-class.

 China has more English speakers than the United States.

 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
 language.
[I guess "I do" is the longest?]

 The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and
 it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

 Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about
 ten.
[Most of the cat sounds are redundant though, and simply mean "you're not
living up to my expectations"]

 If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
 would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the
 length of a normal human's neck.

 No word in the English language rhymes with month.

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

 There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

 Cat's urine glows under a black light.

 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
[I thought van Gogh might have...]

 In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
 child reaches 2-6 years of age.
[Which explains why they're so fascinated with banging yours]

 Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
[Riiiight.  I'll stick with cumin then]

 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of
 the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

 If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
 produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
[But it'd be worth it]

 If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
 produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
[Only a little while longer, fleja045...]

 Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

 Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
 pleasure.
[I'm surprised pigs don't rate here, with their 30 minute orgasms and all...]

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

 The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE

 Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

 You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne
 cork than by a poisonous spider

 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
[With those teeth, why would it want to?]

 The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

 Polar bears are left-handed.
[Good to know next time I pick a fight with one]

 A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death