Facts of Life!!!

[Andymek]

Don't skip through them, read them in order!

 

Really interesting facts that you'll NEVER need to know:

 

1) Butterflies taste with their feet.

 

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

 

3) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's

nuclear weapons combined.

 

4) On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

 

5) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

 

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

 

7) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already

married.

 

8) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

 

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

 

10) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

 

11) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

12) It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

 

13) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because

when it built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books

that would occupy the building.

 

14) A snail can sleep for three years.

 

15) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

 

16) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

 

17) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never

stop growing. - SCARY!!!

 

18) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

 

19) All polar bears are left handed.

 

20) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including

their eyebrows and eyelashes.

 

21) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

22) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on

one row of the keyboard.

 

23) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

 

24) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would

stand seven feet, two inches tall.

 

25) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

 

26) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

 

27) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

 

28) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow

 

 

[Knobby]

lol couldnt reach my elbow

[crasher407]

couldnt reach it either ya ??????????

[Guest Scrapman53]

I didn't try. Thought about it, but decided to just believe it. lol.

[jamesy]

same here lmao was going to but thought naa 

[Allan268]

12) It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

28) Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow

 

Hate to break it but it's a party trick for me! I can do it!

 

[Dragon 428]

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

There is this programm on Discovery channel that is called "mythbusters" and they research a lot of these myths. They did research the duck's quack and indeed it doesn't echo.

But they did find out why it didn't echo. It seems that it has something to do with the quack from the duck being some sort of an echo itself. Therefor when the duck quacks, it's sound vibrations seem to neutrolise the echo when it should bounce back 

 

I'll get my coat now

 

Dragon

[Allan268]

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

There is this programm on Discovery channel that is called "mythbusters" and they research a lot of these myths. They did research the duck's quack and indeed it doesn't echo.

But they did find out why it didn't echo. It seems that it has something to do with the quack from the duck being some sort of an echo itself. Therefor when the duck quacks, it's sound vibrations seem to neutrolise the echo when it should bounce back 

 

I'll get my coat now

 

Dragon

 

Actually i was hoping someone would answer that, kind of the answer i expected.  Anyway!

[Sparky961]

I thought they said that the ducks quack did echo but you just couldn't distinguish it because the echo itself sounds exactly the same as the quack and so it can't be told apart from the original quack??

 

cheers

sparky

[FbF 656]

very interesting...  if my tounge was an inch longer i could get me elbow i reckon

[pete904ni]

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

There is this programm on Discovery channel that is called "mythbusters" and they research a lot of these myths. They did research the duck's quack and indeed it doesn't echo.

But they did find out why it didn't echo. It seems that it has something to do with the quack from the duck being some sort of an echo itself. Therefor when the duck quacks, it's sound vibrations seem to neutrolise the echo when it should bounce back 

 

I'll get my coat now

 

Dragon

mythbusters is brilliant 

[Kev152]

Thought about trying the elbow one...but then thought, nah, its probably true...

 

 

[bazvale 276]

21) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

 

 

I was just thinking that this quote applied to nearly everyone on here 

[mad mick]

very interesting...  if my tounge was an inch longer i could get me elbow i reckon

 

 

if you could,i have a man who makes dvd's who would like to meet ya  

[JohnMid]

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

There is this programm on Discovery channel that is called "mythbusters" and they research a lot of these myths. They did research the duck's quack and indeed it doesn't echo.

But they did find out why it didn't echo. It seems that it has something to do with the quack from the duck being some sort of an echo itself. Therefor when the duck quacks, it's sound vibrations seem to neutrolise the echo when it should bounce back 

 

I'll get my coat now

 

Dragon

 

They use the same technology in fancy cars to cut out road noise. Not by putting ducks in the glove compartment, obviously, but by playing back the road noise into the car to nullify the sound.

 

[pete904ni]

Acually, a copmuter process's the noise and plays back the opposite (ie oscilliscope reading perfectly opposite) to 'cancel' out the waves when they are superimposed in the ear