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Originally posted by KS: Originally posted by Sandman333:
[b] like the can't lick your own elbow thing.... lol.  :p [/b]One of those human pretzel people on Ripley's has to be able to do that! -Pete
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Here's some more, guys.. let me know if you are tired of them...
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside
In a year, your heart can beat up to 40 000 000 times!
Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself
Food passes through the small intestine in just two hours, zipping along at 0.002 mph. Inside the large intestine, it takes about 14 hours, traveling at a more leisurely rate of 0.00007 mph
An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.
In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are humans on earth
Jaguars are frightened by dogs
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
Koalas have twin thumbs
The sound you hear when you macho people crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right".
If a person has less than two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time
Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not dirty ones.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
A male emperor moth can detect and find a female of his species a mile away.
You can test for a two way mirror by putting your fingernail on the surface, if there's space between the tip and the image, then its a normal mirror, if not, its two way.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. (Due to the fact that it ROTATES twice as slow as it REVOLVES around the sun.)
Only female mosquitoes bite. Males only drink water and plant juice.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
A mole can dig about 92 metres in 1 night
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Remember... When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, BUT, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and b|T@h-slap the mo**erf**k*r upside the head, and 2 muscles to move your lips and tell the person to kiss your ass.
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i heard this one was just internet myth:
You can test for a two way mirror by putting your fingernail on the surface, if there's space between the tip and the image, then its a normal mirror, if not, its two way.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself
i kind of wish i was a hyena in these times of terrorists and such.. :rolleyes:
* Kathryn *
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Originally posted by KS:
i heard this one was just internet myth Same here, but in the days of information technology, what CAN'T you question? Good morning, Kathryn... How are ya, this morning? Ray
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Originally posted by Pete D:
Question Authority Kinda like this?
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Originally posted by LoCoZetecPowa: Originally posted by Ray:
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If it were human size, it could run at speeds of 300MPH.
Ray  [/b]Yeah, except for the fact that a scaled up cockroach would get crushed under it's own weight. No exoskeleton can work at human size, or anything close to that (ever notice there's nothing like an ant, cockroach or spider of any size?). The weight of the skeleton itself would be way too much for any muscular system to hold up, it would collapse on itself in a heap. ...and yes, I'm up too late and bored as hell.
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Yeah.. but..
If we were cockroach size, we would be able to still stand, I know.. but we would run 10 times slower than it, so we wouldn't fare too well..
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Originally posted by Ray:
If we were cockroach size, we would be able to still stand, I know.. but we would run 10 times slower than it, so we wouldn't fare too well.. Imagine being scaled down to cockroach size. Ants and cockroaches would be some scary mother****ers! I can only imagine my dog. "Mitzi! Bug?! Here Mitzi!" And she eats it. That would suck. She plays with the bug first.
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