Saturday, March 17, 2007

Can you Lick Your Elbow?

This list has recently come across my path... I don't know of it's accuracy, but it sure has some interesting (and humorous) info:
Did you know?
-Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
-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. (This is particularily true in our family. Have you seen some of our ears?!)
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-All polar bears are left-handed.
-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.
-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 list will try to lick their elbow.
You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?
We did.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi there, I really didn't try to lick my elbow, but I did think about it!! It seems much colder here sense I got back from Guatemala! We finally got carpet in my office yesterday, so Nellie and the kids came over last night and helped set up my new desk. We miss all of you:( and will be glad when we can see and touch you again. Love ya, Papa