If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Horses can't vomit ( really? Yup)
Butterflies taste with their feet
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The Main Library at IndianaUniversity 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."
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
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. Here are a few from Australia Mate Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within six years the population grew to 2 million. The fastest insect is the Australian Dragonfly verified at 55 miles per hour.
The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis,"" in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length. A termite queen lays approximately 30,000 eggs per day. About 1 per second. The World's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969! In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.
If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnishee his wages? A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! staring at it, and some have a difficult time trying to decide to ask about it. Very fun stuff !!!
If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnishee his wages? A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein! A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though! A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average! A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! A hummingbird weighs less than a penny! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court! A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake inthe mornings! Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow! Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
Cat urine glows under a black-light! Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws? Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie! Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete! Most lipstick contains fish scales! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen! Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! Porcupines float in water! Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing! Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons! The electric chair was invented by a dentist! The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used! The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times! The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur! The state of Florida is bigger than England! The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! And a million times its size or volume
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142 A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size. A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Celebrity Deaths Duane Allman - musician 1971 --- motorcycle accident. Sherwood Anderson - writer 1941 --- after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party he died of peritonitis on an ocean liner bound for Brazil. John Jacob Astor 1912 --- drowned with the "unsinkable" Titanic. Attila the Hun 453 AD --- bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night. Alexander I of Greece - king of the Hellenes 1917-20 1920 --- died October 25, from blood poisoning after being bitten by his gardener's pet monkey. Aleksandr II (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) - Czar of Russia 1855-81 1881 --- assassinated by a bomb which tore off his legs, ripped open his belly and mutilated his face. Jane Austen 1817 --- Addison's disease. Sir Francis Bacon 1626 --- pneumonia. He was experimenting with freezing a chicken by stuffing it with snow. Lucille Desiree Ball 1989 --- died after undergoing heart surgery. Velma (Margie) Barfield Cheri Jo Bates 1966 --- 1st victim of the Zodiac killer. Murdered at RiversideCommunity College in California, her jugular and larynx were severed.) Thomas a Becket - Archbishop of Canterbury 1170 --- murdered in the Canterbury cathedral by four knights, supposedly on orders by Henry II. Ludwig van Beethoven 1827 --- cirrhosis of the liver. John Belushi 1982 --- drug overdose. Rainey Bethea 1936 --- the last publicly executed criminal in US. Executed by hanging. Little known lasts. Kimberly Bergalis 1991 --- died of AIDS. She had contracted the disease from her dentist. Bridget Bishop 1692 --- 1st of the witches hung in Salem, Massachusetts. She was executed on June 10.
(Salem witches: Almost 150 "witches" were arrested, but only 31 were tried in 1692. All 31, including 6 males, were sentenced to death. Nineteen were hanged, 2 died in jail, and 1 man was slowly pressed to death under heavy stones. None were burned.) Amanda Blake (Beverly Neill) - actress (Miss Kitty on "Gunsmoke") 1989 --- AIDS contracted from her bisexual husband. Anne Boleyn 1536 --- beheaded for adultery by request of Henry VIII. Neil Bonnett - race car driver 1994 --- car crash, killed during practice at the Daytona International Speedway. Salvatore "Sonny" Bono 1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing. Ray Brennan 1976 --- on July 27th - 1st person to die of "Legionnaire's Disease." Charles Brooks, Jr. 1982 --- 1st criminal executed in US by lethal injection. Elizabeth Barrett Browning - poet 1861 --- acute bronchitis. Jeff Buckley - musician 1997 --- drowned in the Mississippi River, near MudIslandHarbor, on May 29. His body wasn't found until June 4. Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1824 --- died of malarial fever. Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) 1903 --- pneumonia following a bout of heavy drinking. Al Capone - Chicago gangster 1947 --- syphilis. Karen Carpenter - singer 1983 --- heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa, at age 32. Jack Cassidy - actor 1976 --- died in a fire, while asleep on the couch in his apartment. Catherine the Great - Empress of Russia 1796 --- a stroke, while going to the bathroom. Nicolae Ceausescu - Romanian president 1989 --- executed by firing squad, on live television, along with his wife. Anton Joseph Cermak - mayor of Chicago 1933 --- assassinated by accident when riding with Franklin Roosevelt in motorcade. Sergei Chalibashvili - diver 1983 --- diving accident. Attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position during the World University Games. On the way down, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. He died after being in a coma for a week. Raymond Johnson Chapman - Cleveland Indians baseball player 1920 --- died one day after being struck in head by baseball pitch, becoming the only player ever killed as result of major league baseball game. Charles I - English king 1649 --- beheaded by order of Parliament under Oliver Cromwell on January 30. Conor Clapton - son of musician Eric Clapton 1991 --- fell out of 53rd floor window at the age of 5. Cleopatra 30 BC --- suicide by poison, supposedly from a venomous snake. Nat "King" Cole - singer 1965 --- died of complications following surgery for lung cancer. Christopher Columbus 1506 --- rheumatic heart disease. Bob Crane - actor 1978 --- murdered in hotel room. Jim Croce - singer 1973 ---plane crash. The plane crashed into a tree 200 yards past the end of the runway while taking off from Natchitoches, La. Municipal Airport. PlaneCrashInfo.com Davy Crockett - US frontiersman 1836 --- killed defending the Alamo.
(Actually, Crockett survived the assault along with a few others, but was bayoneted to death by the Mexicans after they took the fort.) Marie Curie - chemist, discovered Radium 1934 --- leukemia, caused by exposure to radiation. Jeffrey Dahmer - mass murderer 1994 --- beaten to death with a broomstick by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute. James Dean (James Byron) 1955 --- car crash. Albert Dekker - actor, California legislator 1968 --- suffocated, hanging from shower curtain rod, handcuffed, wearing women's lingerie. John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.) - singer 1997 --- plane crash in Monterey, CA. Larry Desmedt - "Indian Larry" motorcyclist & daredevil 2004 --- died August 30 from injuries he suffered doing one of his signature stunts - standing up on his moving bike - at a show in Charlotte, N.C. on August 28th. Edward Despard 1803 --- last executed criminal drawn & quartered in England. John Dillinger - (1st number one criminal on FBI's most wanted list.) 1934 --- killed by FBI agent Melvin Purvis. Jane Dornnacker - helicopter traffic reporter 1986 --- died doing a live traffic report for WNBC-AM NYC when her helicopter crashed. Tommy Dorsey - Trombonist 1956 --- choked to death in his sleep, due to food that lodged in his windpipe. Anthony J. Drexel III - philanthropist 1893 --- shot himself accidentally while showing off a new gun in his collection to his friends. Last words. Jessica Dubroff - (age 7) 1996 --- plane crash - attempting to become the youngest pilot to fly cross-country. Last words. Isadora Duncan - actress 1927 --- accidental strangulation when her scarf caught in car wheel. Last words. Dominique Dunne - actress ("Poltergeist") 1982 --- choked by boyfriend, John Sweeny. She died after being in a coma for 5 days. Amelia Earhart 1937 --- missing in an attempt to fly around the world. Last words. Nelson Eddy - actor / singer 1965 --- suffered a stroke while entertaining on stage in Miami Beach. He died the next day. Adolf Eichmann 1962 --- executed by hanging for "crimes against the Jewish people." Andres Escobar - Colombian soccer player 1994 --- murdered by unknown thugs, apparently in anger over the accidental goal he had scored for US during World Cup Game. Marty Feldman 1982 --- found dead in motel room in Mexico. Death from heart failure, either from climate change or from shellfish poisoning. Francis Ferdinand - Archduke of Austria 1914 --- assassinated; the incident initiated World War I. W. C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield) 1946 --- stomach hemorrhage and cirrhosis of the liver. Michael Findlay - horror film maker 1977 --- decapitated by helicopter blade. Jim Fixx - made jogging popular 1984 --- died of a heart attack . . . while jogging. Robert (Bobbie) Franks 1924 --- kidnapped and murdered by Leopold & Loeb. Eric Fleming - actor ("Rawhide") 1966 --- drowned when his canoe capsized during the filming of a movie near the headwaters of the Amazon in the Haullaga River, Peru. Dian Fossey - primatologist 1985 --- found hacked to death, presumably by poachers, in her Rwandan forest camp. Sigmund Freud 1939 --- cancer of the jaw, palate, throat and tongue. Bobby Fuller - musician 1966 --- his badly beaten body was discovered in a parked car in Los Angeles. His death was attributed to asphyxia through the forced inhalation of gasoline. Rajiv Gandhi - prime minister of India from 1984 until 1989 1991 --- killed by a bomb, hidden in a bouquet of flowers, which exploded in his hand. Like his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. Judy Garland (Frances Gumm) 1969 --- overdose of sleeping pills. Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) - singer 1984 --- murdered on his birthday by his father. Vitas Kevin Gerulaitis - tennis player 1994 --- died in his sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning at the home of a friend. Andy Gibb - singer 1988 --- heart infection. Gary Mark Gilmore 1977 --- 1st American executed after restoration of US death penalty in 1976. (Executed by firing squad.) Last words. John Glasscock - musician (Jethro Tull) 1979 --- heart infection caused by an abscessed tooth. Olivia Goldsmith - author, "First Wives Club" 2004 --- complications resulting from anesthesia during plastic surgery. Sergei Grinkov - Russian figure skater 1995 --- died of heart attack during skating practice. Henry Gunther 1918 --- last soldier killed in WWI. Little known lasts. Alexander Hamilton - former US Treasury Secretary 1804 --- shot by US Vice President Aaron Burr in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey on July eleventh. Mata Hari (Gertrud Margarete Zelle) - World War I spy 1917 --- executed by firing squad, she refused a blindfold and threw a kiss to the executioners. William E. Harmon 1981 --- 1st BASE jumping fatality. He died in a jump from a 1000-foot antenna tower on April 11. BASE is an acronym for Building, Antennae, Span, Earth, and thus represents the fixed-objects from which BASE jumps are made. William Henry Harrison 1841 --- 1st US President to die in office. ****** Harvey - musician 1972 --- lead guitarist of the Glasgow band Stone the Crows, died after being electrocuted onstage at Swansea's Top Rank Ballroom, May 3, 1972. This is a face, and it is a word. All you have to do is look closely and you will see the face, although the word itself is obvious to most people. If you happen to see the face prominately, you might need to take a special test to determine your stress levels. I'm sure you see the word but in case you are one of the sick and unfortunate ones, please click here for the stress test. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
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