On average 100 people choke to death...

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May 21, 2002
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(chewing) on ball point pens alone. In the USA, that is.

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 the world's nuclear weapons combined.

More people fear spiders than they do death.

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

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, worldwide - 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.

Bucket_O_Beef has a huge wang.

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.

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 on only 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.
 
May 22, 2002
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Deep Thought said:
(chewing) on ball point pens alone. In the USA, that is.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.


Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
oh shit.....thats fukign crazy and im not american:)
 
Dec 17, 2004
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
steven from yahoo answers disagrees:

"The only animal that cannot jump, excluding mollusks, crustaceans, arachnids, etc, is the (ironically named) Rockhopper Penguin, native to the southernmost regions of Argentina. Unlike other species of penguins native to Antarctica, such as the White-flippered Penguin or Emperor Penguin, the Rockhopper in nonmigratory. While females of the other species must travel miles inland during the warmer months to lay their eggs, then return to sea to feed, the Rockhopper is not affected by the severe seasonal climate changes of the Antarctic. This flightless bird remains in its rocky habitat year-round, and therefore has lost through evolution the maneuvering capabilities on land as other penguin species. Due to the unique construction of their legs and feet, the muscles and tendons render them physically unable to jump."

"There was a popular myth for a long time that the Elephant was the only animal that could not jump. While it is true that the elephant is unable to jump in the true sense of the word, there are also many other animals that cannot achieve lift off as it were. As well as this there are a massive amount of other animals who can either not jump very well, or who do not do so, even though they probably could. So determining the difference between those who cant and those who don't is something that needs to be addressed when identifying animals that cant jump."



ppl in 2002 were ignorant