Did you know...

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:07 pm

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike

factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are

already married.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains

all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William

Jefferson Clinton.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A snail can sleep for three years.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat,"

which means "the king is dead."

Plus

Did you know that over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:09 pm

:wah: I did try..................

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:12 pm

oh i love this! hahahahahahaha :wah: Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains

all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William

Jefferson Clinton.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:20 pm

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing

Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long

pina · Post by **pina** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:23 pm

If I could grow my tongue another 4 inches I could do it. Maybe if I stretch it then I could reach my elbow.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:24 pm

Tombstone wrote:

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Three on each foot? :rolleyes:

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:26 pm

pina wrote: If I could grow my tongue another 4 inches I could do it. Maybe if I stretch it then I could reach my elbow.

Wouldn't fit back in your mouth though !!!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:27 pm

Bez wrote:

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Oiy!!!!

Where did you get my vital statistics from???? :wah: :wah:

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:30 pm

Betty Boop wrote: Oiy!!!!

Where did you get my vital statistics from???? :wah: :wah:

No secrets in FG Betty....

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:00 pm

Oh, I love the slinky stats Bez. Slinkies are cool....................

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:03 pm

Betty Boop wrote: Oiy!!!!

Where did you get my vital statistics from???? :wah: :wah:

It's all over the internet Betty....no secrets in THIS cyber world

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:04 pm

chonsigirl wrote: Oh, I love the slinky stats Bez. Slinkies are cool....................

And they really DO walk down the stairs !! I love the coloured ones.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:05 pm

I wanna be the snail.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:43 pm

tmbsgrl wrote: Hehe.. I tried but it didn't work!!!

Darn it.. I need a longer tongue!

Being the snail wouldn't be too bad! But can you imagine the back pain you would have after laying for 3 years!

Hehehehehe and not to mention the over full bladder tee hee hee ok no I don't wanna be the snail.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:44 pm

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed

The human foot is an intricate piece of work. a quarter of the bones in the body are in the feet. That's about 52 bones, along with 19 muscles, 33 joints, and 107 ligaments. Holding everything together are a whole bunch of tendons.

About two-thirds of the world's population have no regular contact with newspapers, television, radio or telephones.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't

Skeeter · Post by **Skeeter** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:54 pm

did you know that Black Widow males are not poisonous?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:30 pm

Vegetable Oil and Castle!

The Japanese construction company, Kongo Gumi, has been owned and operated by members of the Kongo family since it was founded in the year 578A.D.!

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:54 am

The real meanings behind everyday sayings............

Teetotal - Englishman Richard 'Dicky' Turner, a reformed alcoholic, was giving a speech at a Temperance meeting, advocating avoiding boozing entirely. But in trying to pronounce 'total abstinance' he stuttered on the word 't-t-t-total' and since then t-total, ot teetotal has meant complete abstinance.

Know your onions - If you know your onions on a subject, you're considered very knowledgeable. But you need to make the acquaintance of one onion in particualr: Mr C.T. Onions, a 20th century lexicograoher who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary. His name became a byword for his craft.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:29 am

I'm still trying to lick me elbow!

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:36 pm

check out the contortionists at Cirque de Soleil....they can lick most any part of their bodies....clever but kind of creepy

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:10 pm

Did You Know?

What do you call a group of...

Ape: A shrewdness of apes

Baboons: A troop of baboons

Badger: A cete of badgers

Caterpillar: An army of caterpillars

Cobra: A quiver of cobras

Coyote: A band of coyote

Frog: An army or colony of frogs

Owls: A parliament of owl

Parrot: A company of parrots

Partridge: A covey of partridges

Peacock: A muster or ostentation of peacocks

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:24 pm

Bez wrote: Did You Know?

What do you call a group of...

Ape: A shrewdness of apes

Baboons: A troop of baboons

Badger: A cete of badgers

Caterpillar: An army of caterpillars

Cobra: A quiver of cobras

Coyote: A band of coyote

Frog: An army or colony of frogs

Owls: A parliament of owl

Parrot: A company of parrots

Partridge: A covey of partridges

Peacock: A muster or ostentation of peacocks

Lovely so when I am "in good company" I am with a bunch of parrots ahahahahaha

Alfred · Post by **Alfred** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:37 am

minks wrote: Lovely so when I am "in good company" I am with a bunch of parrots ahahahahaha

Good Parrots i hope.

-did you know that 70% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

-Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.

-From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!

- If you Live in Brisbane you will know that Braniac is on T.V right now.

got to go.

Alfred · Post by **Alfred** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:36 pm

did you know that 16 dogs that were pronounced dead were brought back to life in a medical experiment.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:52 am

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still survives. Can you name the other six?

They are:

1) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which were built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.

2) The gigantic gold statue of Zeus was built by the sculptor Pheidias at Olympia.

3) The temple of Artemis was erected in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus in honour of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature.

4) The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a huge tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria.

5) The Colossus of Rhodes was a massive statue erected by the Greeks in honour of Helios the sun-god.

6) The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built near the ancient city of Memphis for Pharaoh Khufu.

Modern Wonders

A list of the seven wonders of the modern world was compiled after World War One (after 1918). The motorcar was omitted from the list, instead naming: (1) the radio; (2) the telephone; (3) the aeroplane; (4) radium; (5) anaesthetics and antitoxins; (6) spectrum analysis; and (7) X rays. An updated list undoubtedly will include the car, television, computer, nuclear energy and nanotechnology

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:58 am

There are more than a million animal species. There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects. The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%. The most numerous bird specie is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:22 am

Why does water not calm the tongue after eating hot spicy food?

The spices in most of the hot foods that we eat are oily, and, like your elementary school science teacher taught you, oil and water don't mix. In this case, the water just rolls over the oily spices.

What can you do to calm your aching tongue? Eat bread. The bread will absorb the oily spices. A second solution is to drink milk. Milk contains a substance called "casein" which will bind to the spices and carry them away. Alcohol also dissolves oily spices

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:52 am

abbey wrote: I'm still trying to lick me elbow! :DStill trying.

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:23 am

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.

Now, go back to work.

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:23 am

abbey wrote: Still trying.

I licked my ear.............does that win?

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:22 pm

BTS wrote: I licked my ear.............does that win?:-3 I think you take the trophy for that one mate!

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:38 pm

BTS wrote: I licked my ear.............does that win?

BTS..I think your telling 'porkies'..tut tut ! We need photographic evidence !:D

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:00 pm

BTS wrote: I licked my ear.............does that win?It's a macho bull thing is'nt it?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:03 pm

The first credit card was issued in 1951
Credit was first used in Assyria, Babylon and Egypt 3000 years ago. The bill of exchange - the forerunner of banknotes - was established in the 14th century. Debts were settled by one-third cash and two-thirds bill of exchange. Paper money followed only in the 17th century.

The first advertisement for credit was placed in 1730 by Christopher Thornton, who offered furniture that could be paid off weekly.

From the 18th century until the early part of the 20th, tallymen sold clothes in return for small weekly payments. They were called "tallymen" because they kept a record or tally of what people had bought on a wooden stick. One side of the stick was marked with notches to represent the amount of debt and the other side was a record of payments. In the 1920s, a shopper's plate - a "buy now, pay later" system - was introduced in the USA. It could only be used in the shops which issued it.

In 1950, Diners Club and American Express launched their charge cards in the USA, the first "plastic money". In 1951, Diners Club issued the first credit card to 200 customers who could use it at 27 restaurants in New York. But it was only until the establishment of standards for the magnetic strip in 1970 that the credit card became part of the information age.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:32 pm

Bez wrote: Did You Know?

What do you call a group of...

Ape: A shrewdness of apes

Baboons: A troop of baboons

Badger: A cete of badgers

Caterpillar: An army of caterpillars

Cobra: A quiver of cobras

Coyote: A band of coyote

Frog: An army or colony of frogs

Owls: A parliament of owl

Parrot: A company of parrots

Partridge: A covey of partridges

Peacock: A muster or ostentation of peacocks

LARKS: An exhaltation of larks

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:46 pm

INTERESTING FACTS

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 ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

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 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.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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. SCARY!!!

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 only on 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.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:50 pm

The first parachute jump was made from a hot air balloon by Andre-Jacques Garnerinthe in France in 1793. Leonardo da Vinci made detailed sketches of parachutes in 1485. He also sketched studies for a helicopter, a tank and retractable landing gear. The first helicopter that could carry a person was flown by Paul Cornu in 1907. Tanks were first used during World War One in Cambrai, France in 1917. The first airplane with retractable landing gear was built in 1933. Da Vinci also suggested underwater breathing methods. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnon introduced scuba diving only in 1943, 458 years later.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:46 am

Still Trying!!!

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:54 am

Tombstone wrote: .

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

what? instead of ten?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:08 am

anne boleyn had six fingers on one hand which is why she was called a witch. one was just a rudimentary stub.