NS5348's Journal in July 2006
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Believe It Or Not! A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A snail can sleep for three years. All Polar bears are left-handed. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. Cat's urine glows under a black light. China has more English speakers than the United States. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. I am. 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 and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. No word in the English language rhymes with month. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Starfish haven't got brains. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world |
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Face Reality" "Don't escape from the difficulty but overcome it with courage. If you escape from IF SOMEONE HAD A GUN HELD IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE AND ASKED YOU IF YOU BELIEVED IN
Note: This is a true article that was printed in a southern newspaper less then a TAKE A DEEP BREATH BEFORE READING THIS There was an atheist couple who had a child. The couple never told their daughter If you believe this little girl is telling the truth that even though she had never Or you can delete it as if it never touched your heart. Funny, isn't it? Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by the Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your Funny how we can go to church for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God Pass this on only if you mean it. Yes, I do Love God! |
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There lived a woman who had a maddening passion for baked beans. So when she met the man she would marry, she made the supreme sacrifice and gave up beans. Some months after her wedding, her car broke down on the way home from work. On her way, she stopped at a diner, and before she knew it, she had consumed three large orders of baked beans. Her husband seemed excited to see her and said, "Darling, I have a surprise for dinner tonight." She seated herself and as he was about to remove the blindfold from his wife, the telephone rang. He made her promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned, then went to answer the telephone. While her husband was out of the room she seized the opportunity, shifting her weight to one leg and letting it rip. When her husband's call ended, she fanned the air a few more times with her napkin.
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This story happened a while ago in Brisbane, John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, John, paralysed with terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a curve. About 15 minutes later, two guys walked into the same pub. They were also wet and out of breath. |
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About a century or two ago, the Pope decided that all the Chinese had to leave Italy. So the Pope made a deal. He would have a religious debate with a member of the Chinese community. The Chinese realized that they had no other choice. So they picked a middle-aged man named Ah Peh to represent them. The day of the great debate came. Ah Peh and the Pope sat opposite each other for a full minute. The Pope pulled out a loaf and a glass of wine. Ah Peh pull out an apple. An hour later, the cardinals were all around The Pope asking him what happened?. Meanwhile, the Chinese community had crowded around Ah Peh. "What happened?" they asked. "Well," said Ah Peh, "First he indicated to me that all Chinese had 3 days to get out of here. |