SOME OF THESE YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW, SOME MAY SETTLE AN ARGUMENT IN THE PUB ON A FRIDAY NIGHT, SOME MAY WIN YOU A MILLION POUNDS AND SOME ARE JUST PLAIN BIZARRE BUT ALL MAKE FOR INTERESTING READING. ENJOY. In case you ever wondered!! Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. A duck's quack does not echo, and no one knows why. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is - uncopyrightable. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself. EMU's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World war II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. A whale's private part is called a dork. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air (the horse, that is), the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson". In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam". The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 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. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. Starfish have no brains. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. I got this in an e-mail and thought I might share it
I always thought a pregnant goldfish was called a diddy. Just shows you what crap you learn in schools.
The duck quack is a comon myth. It was already proved on mythbusters that a duck's quack does indeed generate an echo Here is another source http://alittledamaged.blogspot.com/2004/11/well-thats-that-then.html
I like the praying mantis. I think for the black widow, it too kills the male after sex. Fun collection.
yeah, the falling cat sure was interesting. i wonder how my black kitty (nimbus is his name) will fare.