Sunday, January 30, 2011

AN ASSORTMENT OF SORTS


AN ASSORTMENT OF SORTS


  • Women blink nearly as much as men”. This is scientifically confirmed fact. Here are some more facts to amaze you.
  • 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 of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
  • On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
  • Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
  • Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.
  • It’s physically impossible to lick your elbow.
  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • No word is the English language rhymes with the word “MONTH”.
  • OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE FROM THE BIRTH. But our nose and ears never stop growing. Scary isn’t it”
  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist! (No wonder his chair looks so weird!)
  • All polar bears are left-landed.
  • In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. (Wow! What a facelift!)
  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  • “Go” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Add “D” and it becomes the holiest word in the English language!
  • A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out. (Doesn’t gossip much I guess!)
  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
And to crown this assortment of facts, read this last one.
ALMOST EVERYONE WHO READS THIS WILL TRY TO LICK THEIR ELBOWS! 
YOU TRIED TO LICK YOUR ELBOW, DIDN’T YOU?

-         Compiled by Adolf Washington

I hope you like it and thought over it. Actually I liked it very much when I read it first and I did try to lick my elbow but was unsuccessful. Hope you also did it.