One is forgotten: the Yamaha GTS1000 is the only motorcycle with its special front wheel..... >...Strange Stuff... > >* 1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. > >* 2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. > >* 3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. > >* 4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. > >* 5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. > >* 6- There are more chickens than people in the world. > >* 7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." > >* 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament > building is an American flag. > >* 9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. > >*10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver > or purple. > >* 11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". >* 12- Almonds are a member of the peach family. > >* 13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in > dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. > >* 14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. > >* 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. > >* 16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. > >* 17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. > >* 18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. > >* 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after > Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a >Wonderful > "Life." > >* 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. > >* 21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. > >* 22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. > >* 23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. > >* 24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. > >* 25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar > tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. > >* 26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. > >* 27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. > >* 28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. > >* 29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves > to death. > >* 30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually > clear. > >* 31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is > why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his >brother. It is > also misspelled on his tomb stone. > >* 32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear > pants. > >* 33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in > plane crashes. > >* 34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. > >* 35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump." > >* 36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. > >* 37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn > white. > >* 38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men. > >* 39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than > left-handed people do. > >* 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses > every letter in the English language. > >* 41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with > which they start. > >* 42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters > on only one row of the keyboard. > >* 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read > left to right or right to left. > >* 44- A snail can sleep for 3 years. > >* 45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive > from each salad served in first-class. > >* 46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist. > >* 47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a > population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. > >* 48- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English > language. > >* 49- No president of the United states was an only child. > >* And last and definitely most important: > >* 50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. > >Subject: useless facts > >Some of Life's Unanswered Questions: > > Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin? > > Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed? > >Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? > >Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?** > >Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? > > Why is a boxing ring square? > >Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips? > >Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"? > >Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? > >Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn >down the volume on the radio? > >Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour, and dishwashing liquid >made with real lemons? > >Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? > > Why is the third hand on the watch called second hand? > >Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? > >Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary? > >Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? > >Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? > >Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance that >little indestructible black box is? > >Can fat people go skinny-dipping? > >Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and >drive?
