Wallachie Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 MrMe probably knows all this , but for us who don't: - *Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. *Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. *The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. *No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. *Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. * You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. *Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older... *The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. *The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. *A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. *American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. *Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. *Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. *The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. *Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. *The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. *Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. *Marilyn Monroe had six toes. *All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. *Walt Disney was afraid of mice. *Pearls melt in vinegar. *Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. *The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. *It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. *A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. *The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. *Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton. *Turtles can breathe through their butts. *Butterflies taste with their feet. *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 death. *Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. *Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. *Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. *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. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. *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. *Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M8CKN Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Brilliant, and I did try to lick my elbow, smartarse!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Apparently Baker Street was the first London Underground station to open to the public. What was the point of that then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 [ QUOTE ] MrMe probably knows all this [/ QUOTE ] ...I didn't know the one about the coconuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malagus Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] MrMe probably knows all this [/ QUOTE ] ...I didn't know the one about the coconuts. [/ QUOTE ] I kenw the coconutone from a jackie chan film i didn't believe, though there were a couple I didn't know, like the Gum one. Incidentally, staying on nike, someone once sadi (more tactfully than this) 'Tiger woods, how does it feel to be the first person of indian descent that nike have payed more than 10cents an hour?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sipperana Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Doorman's wisdom... You can lead a horse to water, but you can't come in here dressed like that mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotty Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 [ QUOTE ] No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." [/ QUOTE ] Nor the words SILVER and ORANGE !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallachie Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." [/ QUOTE ] Nor the words SILVER and ORANGE !!! [/ QUOTE ] Sliver rhymes with silver......kind of...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilB Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." [/ QUOTE ] Nor the words SILVER and ORANGE !!! [/ QUOTE ] Nor purple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Talking of ... um... well, anyway... A Buddhist goes to a hot dog vendor in New York and says, "Make me one with everything." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Doe Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 And per chance does Mr whathisname know? Richest Countries in the World Rank Country GDP - per capita 1 Luxembourg $ 55,100 2 Norway $ 37,800 3 United States $ 37,800 4 San Marino $ 34,600 5 Switzerland $ 32,700 6 Denmark $ 31,100 7 Iceland $ 30,900 8 Austria $ 30,000 9 Canada $ 29,800 10 Ireland $ 29,600 11 Belgium $ 29,100 12 Australia $ 29,000 13 Netherlands $ 28,600 14 Japan $ 28,200 15 United Kingdom $ 27,700 16 France $ 27,600 17 Germany $ 27,600 18 Finland $ 27,400 19 Monaco $ 27,000 20 Sweden $ 26,800 Richest Countries in Asia Rank Country GDP 1 Japan 2 Singapore 3 Brunei 4 Korea, South 5 Palau 6 Malaysia 7 Thailand 8 Turkey 9 Kazakhstan 10 Turkmenistan 11 China 12 Philippines 13 Maldives 14 Sri Lanka 15 Armenia 16 Azerbaijan 17 Indonesia 18 India 19 Vietnam 20 Papua New Guinea Poorest Countries in the World Rank Country GDP - per capita 1 East Timor $ 500 2 Somalia $ 500 3 Sierra Leone $ 500 4 Malawi $ 600 5 Tanzania $ 600 6 Burundi $ 600 7 Congo, Republic of the $ 700 8 Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700 9 Comoros $ 700 10 Eritrea $ 700 11 Ethiopia $ 700 12 Afghanistan $ 700 13 Niger $ 800 14 Yemen $ 800 15 Madagascar $ 800 16 Guinea-Bissau $ 800 17 Zambia $ 800 18 Kiribati $ 800 19 Nigeria $ 900 20 Mali Countries with the Biggest TV Watchers Rank Country Weekly Hours Spent Watching 1 Thailand 22.4 2 Philippines21.0 3 Egypt 20.9 4 Turkey 20.2 5 Indonesia 19.7 6 United States 19 7 China (Taiwan) 18.9 8 Brazil 18.4 9 United Kingdom 18 10 Japan 17.9 COUNTRIES THAT HAVE WON THE MOST MISS UNIVERSE TITLES Rank Country Number of Miss Universe Titles 1 United States 7 2 Venezuela 4 2 Puerto Rico 4 4 Sweden 3 5 Trinidad and Tobago 2 5 Thailand 2 5 Philippines 2 5 India 2 5 Finland 2 5 Brazil 2 Most Expensive Countries to Live in Rank Country 1 Japan 2 South Korea 3 Russia 4 Taiwan 5 Norway 6 Hong Kong 7 Switzerland 8 Denmark 9 Argentina 10 China 11 Finland 12 Cote d'Ivoire 13 United States 14 Sweden 15 Venezuela 16 United Kingdom 17 Singapore 18 Oman 19 Jordan 20 Kuwait Most Corrupt World Leaders Rank Country Leader and alleged embezzlement 1 Indonesia Suharto, $15-35bn 2 Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, $5-10bn 3 Congo, Democratic Republic of the Mobutu Sese Seko, $5bn 4 Nigeria Sani Abacha, $2-5bn 5 Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia) Slobodan Milosevic, $1bn 6 Haiti J-C Duvalier, $300-800m 7 Peru Alberto Fujimori, $600m 8 Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko, $114-200m 9 Nicaragua Arnoldo Aleman, $100m 10 Philippines Joseph Estrada, $78-80m World's Tallest Buildings Rank 1. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan 2. Petronas Tower 1, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3. Petronas Tower 2, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4. Sears Tower, Chicago 5. Jin Mao Building, Shanghai 6. Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong 7. CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou, China 8. Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, China 9. Empire State Building, New York 10. Central Plaza, Hong Kong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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