Did You Know?

[Zee007]

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the

mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away

from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep

my toothbrush in the living room now.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each

salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the

first 'Marlboro Man'.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike

factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen

wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are

already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and

Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

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

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the

engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor

and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all

the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson

Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Now, you know everything there is to know. :zee:

[Fidgits]

thats great....

Learning something new everyday...

[ifraz]

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

did she :duh:

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

now that's funny

[Fidgits]

Did you also know...

You are least likely to be attacked by a crocodile when your underwater....

why? because they have a translucent membrane that covers their eye's when submerged, so they are half blind when fully submerged, and as such, lack condfidence in attacking prey..

oh... and another:

Lamborghini orignally built tractors, before it went into the sports car market to compete with Ferrari...

[vince-com]

Aston Martin DB for ... too :P

[TonyGoose]

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

did she :duh:

Wonder if they were split evenly across both feet ..

or maybe 4 on one, 2 on the other

[Mr-Lex]

Sure is a learning study today... :winky: