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Ive just received this email, and I usually delete cr@ppy ones like this but wanted to know how many of these are actually true?
I know you cant lick your elbow, does anyone else know the others?
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a milli-second.
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 (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphaghetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
I know you cant lick your elbow, does anyone else know the others?
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a milli-second.
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 (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphaghetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
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Jon Tickle off the Brainiac programme also said you can not lick you're elbow; and in the next show's broadcast he appologised for there were hundreds of photos sent in of people who could lick there elbows. So there you go maybe not all are actual facts but just unlikley senarios, that by some freak of nature goes against the run of the mill.
Saw a programme the other day about animals and the experts were saying that ostrich's don't bury their heads (or attempt to). It was something to do with keeping their heads low to avoid being seen by predators (or something like that)
Like to know the Seinfeld one if anyone knows as I used to watch that quite a lot.
Like to know the Seinfeld one if anyone knows as I used to watch that quite a lot.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a milli-second. - Not true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_you
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit - utterly untrue, not least because goldfish don't get pregnant! Nor have they ever been called tw@s.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. - True; this was on Qi (which isn't an amazingly good proof, but the best I have)
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. - as stated, this is complete bunkum, and obviously so. A quack is merely a soundwave, therefore it can echo.
Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks. - Don't know about the statistic, but certainly my friend who is a photocopier engineer agrees that December sees the largest number of call outs, caused by people photocopying their bums.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit - utterly untrue, not least because goldfish don't get pregnant! Nor have they ever been called tw@s.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. - True; this was on Qi (which isn't an amazingly good proof, but the best I have)
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. - as stated, this is complete bunkum, and obviously so. A quack is merely a soundwave, therefore it can echo.
Twenty-three percent of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks. - Don't know about the statistic, but certainly my friend who is a photocopier engineer agrees that December sees the largest number of call outs, caused by people photocopying their bums.
Anyone who has seen Babe knows that pigs can and do look up.
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The ostrich myth is caused by the true fact that ostriches lay their heads down on the sand to avoid being conspicuous, but as advised, they don;t bury their heads.
A duck's quak will echo, as will any other sound.
It is not possible to keep your eyes open when sneezing, although it is believed that the pressure caused may cause them damage.
Sneezing really hard may cause a muscle strain, but this is pretty rare, and rupture of blood vessels is rarely caused simply by a sneeze, but can be coincidental.
A duck's quak will echo, as will any other sound.
It is not possible to keep your eyes open when sneezing, although it is believed that the pressure caused may cause them damage.
Sneezing really hard may cause a muscle strain, but this is pretty rare, and rupture of blood vessels is rarely caused simply by a sneeze, but can be coincidental.
Hmmm, hello again hygenic homer:)
i can lick my elbow. i have a long tongue.
Regarding the ducks quack, i am sure someone knows why. I remember reading about it in some scientific gene web page.
And just to add, of the 23% of photocopiers broken by people sitting on them, 22.9% are broken by women :)
i can lick my elbow. i have a long tongue.
Regarding the ducks quack, i am sure someone knows why. I remember reading about it in some scientific gene web page.
And just to add, of the 23% of photocopiers broken by people sitting on them, 22.9% are broken by women :)
