AMAZING FACTS

  1. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
  2. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
  3. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
  4. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
  5. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  6. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
  7. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  8. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  9. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
  10. 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.
  11. A snail can sleep for three years.
  12. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. - SCARY!!!
  13. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  14. All polar bears are left handed.
  15. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
  16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  17. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
  18. "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  19. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
  20. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  21. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  22. Almost everyone who reads this page will try to lick their elbow!