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BJ
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« on: December 17, 2010, 06:11:37 AM »

•Ants don’t sleep.
•A slug has four noses.
•Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the centre of golf balls.
•A zebra is white with black stripes.
•It is impossible to lick your elbow.
•Dill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be needed to make an ounce.
•The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
•A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
•Approximately 850 peanuts make an 18 oz jar of peanut butter.
•In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."
•There are five years in a quinquennium.
•Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world’s first billionaire.
•There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.
•Close to fifty percent of Internet shoppers spend over five hours a week online.
•All polar bears are left-handed.
•The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
•A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
•Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
•Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French.
•During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.
•A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
•A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
•The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by Radiation."
•A honeybee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.
•About half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet.
•No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2010, 02:03:37 PM »

Interesting  Wink
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2010, 05:53:17 PM »

Really useful information BJ! Off course this is not your own philosophy thanks for sharing. 

But eventually I searched youtube to verify this fact "it is impossible to lick your elbow" unfortunately it is possible.  Wink

there are many videos but I am posting only one link HERE

Regards,

gb

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