Post by AliBullie on Feb 26, 2006 10:06:37 GMT 1
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
Celery has negative calories - it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
Donkeys kill more people annually than plain crashes.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs – but not downstairs.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Starfish have no brains.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer (… so did the first Marlboro Man).
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified Kosher.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
Celery has negative calories - it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
Donkeys kill more people annually than plain crashes.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs – but not downstairs.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Starfish have no brains.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer (… so did the first Marlboro Man).
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified Kosher.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.