(busted)
2. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
4. People say "Bless you" when you
sneeze because when you sneeze,your
heart stops for a mili-second.
5. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a
period of 80 years, no one reported a
single case where an ostrich buried its
head in the sand.
6. It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.
7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
(busted?)
8. More than 50% of the people in the
world have never made or received a
telephone call.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib.
11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you
can rupture a blood vessel in your
head or neck and die.
12. If you keep your eyes open by force
when you sneeze, you might pop an
eyeball out.
13. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18
months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.
14. Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by
700 times.
15. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a
Superman somewhere.
16. The cigarette lighter was invented
before the match.
17. Thirty-five percent of the people who
use personal ads for dating are already
married.
18. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no
one knows why.
19. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.
20. In the course of an average lifetime you
will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted
insects and 10 spiders.
21. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
22. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
print is different.
23. Over 75% of people who read this will
try to lick their elbow.
24. A crocodile can't move its tongue and
cannot chew. Its digestive juices are
so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
25. Money notes are not made from paper,
they are made mostly from a special
blend of cotton and linen. In 1932,
when a shortage of cash occurred in
Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were
made out of wood for a brief period.
26. The Grammy Awards were introduced
to counter the threat of rock music. In
the late 1950s, a group of record
executives were alarmed by the
explosive success of rock ‘n roll,
considering it a threat to "quality"
music.
27. Tea is said to have been discovered in
2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when
some tea leaves accidentally blew into
a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was
introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan
of New York.
28. Over the last 150 years the average
height of people in industrialised
nations has increased 10 cm (about 4
inches). In the 19th century, American
men were the tallest in the world,
averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the
average height for American men is
1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77 (5'8")
for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5") for the
Dutch. The tallest nation in the world is
the Watusis of Burundi.
29. In 1955 the richest woman in the world
was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an
estate of $95 million in a will that was
found in a tin box with four pieces of
soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count
under the 10 wealthiest women in the
world.
30. Joseph Niepce developed the world's
first photographic image in 1827.
Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson
introduced the film camera in 1894. But
the first projection of an image on a
screen was made by a German priest.
In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a
candle or oil lamp to project hand-
painted images onto a white screen.
31. In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols
refused to accept the Oscar for his
movie The Informer because the
Writers Guild was on strike against the
movie studios. In 1970 George C. Scott
refused the Best Actor Oscar for
Patton. In 1972 Marlon Brando refused
the Oscar for his role in The Godfather.
32. The system of democracy was
introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens,
Greece. The oldest existing governing
body operates in Althing in Iceland. It
was established in 930 AD.
33. A person can live without food for
about a month, but only about a week
without water.
If the amount of water in your body is
reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
34. According to a study by the Economic
Research Service, 27% of all food
production in Western nations ends up
in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people
are underfed - the same number of
people who are overweight.
35. Camels are called "ships of the desert"
because of the way they move, not
because of their transport capabilities.
A Dromedary camel has one hump and
a Bactrian camel two humps. The
humps are used as fat storage. Thus,
an undernourished camel will not have
a hump.
36. In the Durango desert, in Mexico,
there's a creepy spot called the "Zone
of Silence." You can't pick up clear TV
or radio signals. And locals say
fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
37. Ethernet is a registered trademark of
Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark
of AT&T.
38. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-
Data, a company that created
machines which recorded the number
of cars passing a given point on a road.
39. Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90
degrees.
40. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene
Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed
U.S. Geological Survey astronomer,
trained the Apollo astronauts about
craters, but never made it into space.
Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an
astronaut but was rejected because of
a medical problem. His ashes were
placed on board the Lunar Prospector
spacecraft before it was launched on
January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the
probe into a crater on the moon in an
attempt to learn if there is water on the
moon.
41. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest
software producing country in the
world.
42. The first fossilized specimen of
Australopithecus afarenisis was named
Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite
song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,"
by the Beatles.
43. Figlet, an ASCII font converter program,
stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's
LETters.
44. Every human spent about half an hour
as a single cell.
45. Every year about 98% of atoms in your
body are replaced.
46. Hot water is heavier than cold.
47. Plutonium - first weighed on August
20th, 1942, by University of Chicago
scientists Glenn Seaborg and his
colleagues - was the first man-made
element.
48. If you went out into space, you would
explode before you suffocated because
there's no air pressure.
49. The radioactive substance,
Americanium - 241 is used in many
smoke detectors.
50. The original IBM-PCs, that had hard
drives, referred to the hard drives as
Winchester drives. This is due to the
fact that the original Winchester drive
had a model number of 3030. This is, of
course, a Winchester firearm.
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