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Cattle Rack Rancher

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Title: Weird Facts

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all 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.

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

"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.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
 
I know at least some of those arent true or twisted.

Some of those you would have absolutely know way of knowing? The barbie one for example. Maybe those would be her measurments if she was 7'+ tall, but not if she was 6' or whatever.
 
leading cows up and downstairs.

My Daddy's parlor barn had stairs going up AND stairs going down.

Alice
 
Alice":2zpqi7o8 said:
leading cows up and downstairs.

My Daddy's parlor barn had stairs going up AND stairs going down.

Alice

In this country if they couldn;t go up or down stairs all of the parlors would be full. Nearly every one has steps either in or out, some both ends.

dun
 
dun":1w7q9f26 said:
Alice":1w7q9f26 said:
leading cows up and downstairs.

My Daddy's parlor barn had stairs going up AND stairs going down.

Alice

In this country if they couldn;t go up or down stairs all of the parlors would be full. Nearly every one has steps either in or out, some both ends.

dun

Ok, what I meant was the entrance was steps going up and the exit was steps going down.

Alice
 
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

This un here's the one got me stumped. I don't believe I could eat even one acre of pizza. :shock:
 
warpaint":rowahb3v said:
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

This un here's the one got me stumped. I don't believe I could eat even one acre of pizza. :shock:

don't think they meant one individual eating that much.. :roll:

it must mean a collective amount ;-) :lol:
 
Cattle Rack Rancher":3ri9woj5 said:
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.

I can't believe two books could weigh that much. :?
 
VanC":p8xksgdg said:
Cattle Rack Rancher":p8xksgdg said:
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.

I can't believe two books could weigh that much. :?

I don't know Van....the 'Dooms Day Book' and a copy of 'Crowders Book of Wimmins Beauties' that's heavy weight. :P :lol:
 
VanC":3v9y27ms said:
Cattle Rack Rancher":3v9y27ms said:
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.

I can't believe two books could weigh that much. :?

Now that's funny. And true.
 
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.

Northwestern University's library is sinking too.. Also because of the books not being accounted for.. It is also built on a lakefill, land dumped into Lake Michigan to produce some more acreage.. Some of Chicago's most valuable realestate on the northside lakefront area is lakefill over where they used to dump garbage in the late 19th century.
 

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