Thursday, July 23, 2009

Random Things You Don't Need To Know

Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

Toilets flush in the key of E-flat.

The oldest word in the english language is town.

Flamingo tongues were eaten in ancient Rome as a rare delicacy.

The safest age of life, statistically, is 10.

A persons thumb is as long as their nose.

Elephants can't jump.

A can of diet coke floats in a pool. Regular coke sinks.

Aglets are the name of the plastic bits at the end of shoelaces.

Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd", in the book "If I Ran A Zoo."

There's more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

If you rearange the letters in "mother-in-law", you get "woman hitler."

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

The average woman comsumes 2.7 kilograms of lipstick in her life.

Three Mile Island is only two and a half miles long.

Cockroaches eat the glue on the back of stamps.

A scallop has 35 eyes.

Grasshoppers have white blood.

A shrimp can swin backwards.

Minnows have teeth in their throats.

An armadillo can walk underwater.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Caterpillars have about 4 000 muscles.

You can't lick your elbow, unless your double jointed.

Most people will read this and try to lick their elbow.

Eels blood is poisonous.

Rats can grow immune to rat poison.

King George of England was clinically insane.

The inventor of Adidas's brother invented Puma.

My friends are the best in world because they helped me gather all these stupid facts. They are also to blame if these facts are not 100% correct.

1 comment:

  1. i love your useless, random collection of facts(partly because i gave you one or two of them!)it's good to know things you don't need to know!

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