Useless Information III

"Useless Information III"*

*Starfish do not have brains.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30
times its own weight and always falls over on
its right side when intoxicated. (Who took the time to figure that out?)

The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

The average housefly lives for one month.

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years
waiting in lines. {Double, if you live in Russia!}

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes
the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903
used a tomato can for a carburetor.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver."

The flea can jump 350 times its body length; it is like
a human jumping the length of a football field.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it
pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The longest word in the English language is 1909
letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

The most common name in the world in Mohammed.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.

The real reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for
water.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. {What? Less than France?}

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

Toilets injure 40,000 Americans each year.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made
using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork
than by a poisonous spider. {Thank G~d for little favors!}

Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

In dice, the opposite sides of the die always equal seven.
Received on Tue Apr 21 09:13:52 2009