<p>it's warm today</p>
<p>I hate my teachers</p>
<p>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.</p>
<p>A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.</p>
<p>A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.</p>
<p>Almonds are a member of the peach family.</p>
<p>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.</p>
<p>Camel's milk does not curdle.</p>
<p>Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.</p>
<p>"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."</p>
<p>In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.</p>
<p>In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on
a watch is 10:10.</p>
<p>It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @
home!)</p>
<p>Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
Los Angeles de Porciuncula"--and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its
size: "L.A."</p>
<p>No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.</p>
<p>Non-dairy creamer is flammable.</p>
<p>On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider
hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.</p>
<p>Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first
baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.</p>
<p>"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.</p>
<p>Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at
the same height as the U.S. flag.</p>
<p>The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.</p>
<p>The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.</p>
<p>The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.</p>
<p>The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.</p>
<p>The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.</p>
<p>The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an
"A" is Afghanistan.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah
Mat," which means "the king is dead".</p>
<p>There are more chickens than people in the world.</p>
<p>There are only four words in the English language which end in
"-dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.</p>
<p>Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.</p>
<p>When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,
the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.</p>
<p>Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.</p>
<p>you should go on jeopardy and become the next ken jennings.</p>
<p>Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of McDonalds.
I didn't see anything about it in the news though, that's kinda strange.
And yesterday marked 60 years from FDR's death back in 1945. </p>
<p>Oh, and speaking of sharks, CNCL, they are the only creatures in the world that can't get cancer I believe. So a lot of researchers have been trying to use shark cartlidge to find a cure to cancer lately. </p>
<p>Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.</p>
<p>Almonds are members of the peach family.</p>
<p>The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.</p>
<p>The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
got "the whole 9 yards."</p>
<p>Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.</p>
<p>The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.</p>
<p>Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously</p>
<p>Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. (I'm a genuine 1/3rd! w00p!)</p>
<p>Oh and there's 119 grooves on a quarter. I learned this from a Snapple cap one day. And I also learned that 'camel's milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle' fact from a Snapple cap. Gotta love Snapple :)</p>
<p>The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. Why do I know this? Cuz my area code is 276. :p</p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>]Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight.
[</em>]Horses cannot vomit.
[<em>]Rabbits cannot vomit.
[</em>]A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
[<em>]Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
[</em>]Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
[<em>]When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
[</em>]Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
[<em>]If you put Saturn on water, it would float.
[</em>]An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
[<em>]Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
[</em>]Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.
[<em>]Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
[</em>]Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
[<em>]A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
[</em>]111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
[<em>]The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
[</em>]Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
[li]To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a[/li]statement made by swearing on their testicles.
[/ul]</p>
<p>Camels, giraffes, and cats are the only animals to run with both left legs, then both right legs, etc. </p>
<p>Camels have a translucent third eyelid that enables them to see during sandstorms.</p>
<p>The largest prairie dog town ever found held 35 million animals and covered 10 square miles. </p>
<p>The arms of an orangutan are 11/2 times longer than its legs.</p>
<p>You can't lick your elbow....</p>
<p>Since reading my above post 75% of you have tried to lick their elbow. :)</p>
<p>I haven't..</p>
<p>The average makes 3 burps per hour.</p>
<p>I think primitivefuture has created a new username for himself. :) Sorry, but I've read those intense debates between conservatives and liberals, and your style is similar to primitivefuture's.</p>
<p>odds of being struck by lightening</p>
<p>one in 7 billion</p>
<p>odds of it happening today</p>
<p>one in 13.5 trillion</p>
<p>in response to the elbow licking a girl at my school can. she has double jointed shoulders and elbows and a long tongue! it is disturbing but cool to see</p>
<p>Those who have more than one (johnson) have a condition called diphallasparatus.</p>
<p>doubled jointed is a myth, or if you like chimerical, cause it's both an actual word and a mythological animal. Sorry, I'm just hooked on Greek Mythology.:)</p>
<p>"odds of being struck by lightening</p>
<p>one in 7 billion"</p>
<p>That seems to be a bit high. While getting hit by lighting is rare, there are only about 6.5 billion people on Earth...</p>
<p>Are you sure it's not 7 million?</p>
<p>I think it is.</p>