Guest guest Posted July 25, 2001 Report Share Posted July 25, 2001 Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. A duck's quack does not echo, and no one knows why. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself. EMU's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie. All porcupines float in water. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson". In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam". The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Starfishes have no brains. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. Amazing but true...? ********************************************************** Jenny Worwood Lucent Enhanced Services and Sales m: 07776 161354 worwood (AT) lucent (DOT) com (Text PAMHO:4513916) ------ ------- End of Forwarded Message ------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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