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Strange Facts

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

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to
mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance)
but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That
is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk,
with the shutter on backwards.

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."

The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two
synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

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

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only
have about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Camel's milk does not curdle.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used
to clean elephants.

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.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by
an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's
Wild Kingdom."

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New
Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive
$.10 from the town.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from
the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured
out how to walk up straight staircases.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."
(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly it
s state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but
doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being
the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of
Canada's independence.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing."
They actually pass out from sheer terror.

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. (But you'd think that all the light-
weights and airheads that "study" there would balance that
out.)
 
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora
la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula."
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die;
they need gravity to swallow.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean,
the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones
are the largest anagrams.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968
Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names
of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to
local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff,
except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
The company providing the liability insurance for the
Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same
firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of
Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame
created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and
Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh
Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life".
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.
 
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith
(Formerly of the Monkees)
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated
for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role
lasted only six minutes.
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on
his famous transatlantic flight.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was
only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His
first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on
Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned
once in the first episode on their radio's newscast
about the wreck.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed
to speak.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII.
If captured, they could be soaked in water and
unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been
overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles
that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much
they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
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
realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the
balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old
cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannon-
balls were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a
brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they
would crack and break off...Thus the saying.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two
weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be
talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla"
it looks like they are actually talking.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English
law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with
anything wider than your thumb.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two
Disney cartoon features with both parents that are
present and don't die throughout the movie.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only
the left hand.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always
all the same sex.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can
get leprosy.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs
into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
 
(Facts about Americans. Did you know that...)

Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils.
21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust
their husbands to do it correctly.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
67.5% of men were tightie whities (briefs).
The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago
it was a 34B
85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
3 out of 4 of us store our dollar bills in rigid order
with singles leading up to higher denominations.
13% of us admit to occassionally doing our
offspring's homework.
91% of us lie regularly.
27% admit to cheating on a test or quiz.
29% admit they've intentionally stolen something
from a store.
50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters
to avoid the high prices of snack foods.
90% believe in divine retribution.
10% believe in the 10 Commandments.
82% believe in an afterlife.
45% believe in ghosts.
13% (mostly men) have spent a night in jail.
29% of us are virgins when we marry.
58.4% have called into work sick when we weren't.
10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
Over 50% believe in spanking - but only a child
over 2 years old.
35% give to charity at least once a month.
How far would you go for $10 million? 25% would abandon
their friends, family, and church. 7% would murder.
69% eat the cake before the frosting.
When nobody else is around, 47% drink straight
from the carton.
85% of us will eat Spam this year.
70% of us drink orange juice daily.
Snickers is the most popular candy.
22% of us skip lunch daily.
9% of us skip breakfast daily.
66% of us eat cereal regularly.
22% of all restaurant meals include french fries.
14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.
Only 13% brush our teeth from side to side.
45% use mouthwash every day.
22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
The typical shower is 101 degrees F.
Nearly 1/3 of U.S. women color their hair.
9% of women and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery.
53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
58% of women paint their nails regularly.
62% of us pop our zits.
33% of women lie about their weight.
10% of us claim to have seen a ghost.
57% have had deja vu. 49% believe in ESP.
4 out of 5 of us have suffered from hemorrhoids.
The average girl starts her period at age 12.
44% have broken a bone.
Only 30% of us know our cholesterol level.
14% have attended a self-help meeting.
15% regularly go to a shrink.
78% would rather die quickly than live in a retirement home.
46.5% of men say they ALWAYS put the seat down
after they've used the toilet.
30% of us refuse to sit on a public toilet seat.
54.2% of us always wash our hands after using the toilet.
23.5% admit they don't always flush.
45.2% pee in the shower.
44.9% pee in the ocean.
28.1% pee in the pool.
55.2% will let someone else come in the bathroom while
they're on the toilet.
39% of us peek in our host's bathroom cabinet. 17% have
been caught by the host.
81.3% would tell an acquaintance to zip his pants.
29% of us ignore RSVP.
71.6% of us eavesdrop.
22% are functionally illiterate.
Less than 10% are trilingual.
37% claim to know how to use all the features on their VCR.
53% prefer ATM machines over tellers.
56% of women do the bills in a marriage.
2 out of 3 of us wouldn't give up our spouse even for
a night for a million bucks.
20% of us have played in a band at one time in our life.
40% of us have had music lessons.
44% reuse tinfoil.
57% save pretty gift paper to reuse.
66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and
taken credit for doing it fromscratch.
53% read their horoscopes regularly.
16% of us have forgotten our own wedding anniversary
(mostly men)
59% of us say we're average-looking.
Blacks are more than twice as likely to call
themselves beautiful.
90% of us depend on alarm clocks to wake us.
53% of us would take advice from Anne Landers.
28% of us have skinny-dipped. 14% with the opposite sex.
51% of adults dress up for a Halloween festivity.
On average, we send 38 Christmas cards every year.
20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
2 out of 5 have married their first love.
The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.
Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand.
1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
6% propose over the phone.
71% can drive a stick-shift car.
45% of us consistantly follow the speed limit.
2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light. 1/3 of us
don't wear seat belts.
12% of men never use their car blinkers.
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
25% of us drive after we've been drinking.
4 out of 5 sing in the car.
The average sexual experience lasts about 39 minutes.
Men say the average erect penis is 10". Women say it's 4".
56% of men have had sex at work.
1 in 3 of us have had an extramarital affair.
62% think there is nothing wrong with affairs.
60% of men and 54% of women have had a 1-night stand.
The most common fantasy is oral sex.
Women buy 4 out of every 10 condoms sold.
8% of us have regular anal sex.
58% like dirty talk during sex.
22% rent porno flicks at least once.
 
Sorry I only really focused on the last eleven lines. I heard today that it is impossible to breathe and be sick at the same time.
 
rainbowberry said:
Sorry I only really focused on the last eleven lines. I heard today that it is impossible to breathe and be sick at the same time.
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Actually, it's possible. Aspiration of vomitus in the lungs can cause you to develop pneumonia or choke and die.
 
Well, I think it's impossible to throw up and breathe at the same time, but if you're passed out, unconscious or sleeping I'm sure you can inhale some after words, but while it's happening your airway is totally closed.
 
chilehunter said:
(Facts about Americans. Did you know that...)

Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils.
21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust
their husbands to do it correctly.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
67.5% of men were tightie whities (briefs).
The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago
it was a 34B
85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
3 out of 4 of us store our dollar bills in rigid order
with singles leading up to higher denominations.
13% of us admit to occassionally doing our
offspring's homework.
91% of us lie regularly.
27% admit to cheating on a test or quiz.
29% admit they've intentionally stolen something
from a store.
50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters
to avoid the high prices of snack foods.
90% believe in divine retribution.
10% believe in the 10 Commandments.
82% believe in an afterlife.
45% believe in ghosts.
13% (mostly men) have spent a night in jail.
ad infinitum
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This made me think of:

 
boutros said:
Dolphins can be trained to locate missing divers, underwater mines, and kill enemy divers.
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That's awesome... they should use dolphins in search and rescue at sea... or do they? I'm gonna toss a dolphin in my neighbors pool.... would he be considered an enemy diver? lol
 
They do. They being the Navy. Coast Guard may or may not have some, I don't know. There are actually retired decorated veteran dolphins (veterans of both Gulf wars) living in San Diego. Some come and go as they please- you'd come back too if you saw some of the fish they ate.

Is your neighbor a enemy diver? Time will tell.
 
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