How do people know these things?
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 of 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.
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.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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. SCARY!!!
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.
"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.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.

Got me with that last one !!!

val

LOL!  Yes, certainly did try to the elbow trick!

And no word in the english language rhymes with orange ;)

Can't lick my elbows but the dogs take care of that for me :D But I can suck my toes..............sorry should have kept that one quite..........was rather tasteless, or should be :D :D

Me too!! LOL, very funny :D

Does any one else watch "Myth Busters" on the Discovery Channel? They did an experiment a while back to see if a Ducks Quack echoed and now I can't remember what happened! I'm pretty sure they busted that myth and that they do actually echo. It does loads of things like this, it's quite good fun to watch!

I bet everyone looked at the first line of their keyboard to check the 'typewriter' one :D

guilty of that.. and the elbow one!

Don't know if this is true, but I heard on the radio one day that the longest ever recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Ahhh another Steve Wright fan I see :D :D

lol Guilty as Charged :D :D :D

Best radio show on in the UK IMHO :) (2nd is Jonathon Woss on a Saturday morning I reckon)

Naaaa Mel, Chris Moyles is on Radio 1 is the top show ;) :D Not yet succumbed to being a Radio 2 listener :D

Lucy
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Oh dear....I'm soooo old.....I like Radio 4 (hangs head covered in paisley headscarf in shame) :(

Ok I do admit to listening to radio 4 when I am in a serious adult mood but not that often :D :D

Vicki you need to get a Burberry chav head scarf, that will give you a bit more street cred ;) :p

Lucy
xx

Wossie has to the be the best on Radio 2, then Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Jeremy Vine, Ken Bruce....

(Radio is on in the van all day weekdays and on in the car Saturday mornings driving to the better dog walks!)

Pity it's so appalling on a Sunday.

Meh! Terry Wogan with the Janet & John stories (and the wonderful Dharmachari Nagaraja when he's doing Pause for Thought) is definitely the tops! I do best when I've started the day roaring with laughter as I drive in to work. :D

lol :D Yup got me on that elbow one :D

I have to say I generally listen to my local radio station, however I will flip channels and if I hear something I like I keep listening  :D :D