posted 02-07-2005 01:22 PM         

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

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.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

No standard 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

One in every four Americans has appeared on television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt.

In Clarendon, Texas, there is reportedly a law on the books that lawyers must accept eggs, chickens, or other produce, as well as money, as payment of legal fees.

Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.

A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

All porcupines float in water.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

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Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

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try it, you will think twice when you eat them after that !!

posted 02-07-2005 10:58 PM         

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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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Well at least one item on the list isn't true. I remember watching "Myth Busters" and they tested this and found that what happens is the quack actually does echo but the sound waves behave differently than other sounds. I don't remember the exact conclusion to this, but it definitely echos.

posted 02-08-2005 08:04 AM         

2.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

3.There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

4.Every day 20 banks are robbed. the average take is $2,500.

5.The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.

6.Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considerd an insult.

7.One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.

8.Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

9.A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.

10.A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.

11.A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.

12.When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event,a camera must shoot at a millonth of a second.

13.It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

14.Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1,1969.

15.Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.