Fri 16 May 2003
Interesting Facts
Posted by Prakash under General
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A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
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. (Just for your information: The Hopkins Library has a three-storeyed basement 🙂
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.”
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. More scared ??
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.
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 🙂