Learn something new everyday!

4and20 wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

pandora wrote:

cows that are given names produce more milk

Just to sidetrack a tiny bit...I've heard that if you talk to your plants it's been proven they grow better, quicker, and are generally more healthy.

Anyone heard of this? Thoughts?

Yes, supposedly, it is the increased carbon dioxide that you are emitting. Also, plants like classical music better than rock...there is a book that shows that water reacts differently to music as well....I'll look for it for ya 8-)

That theory makes sense, I guess. Although now I'm more intrigued by the water fact. :shock:

I learned that I can get home in twenty minutes on Monday nights if I take the back roads instead of the main arteries. 8-)

I learned today that if you have a meth lab in your apartment you should make sure that the place is clean or your apartment will blow up.

don't ask how i learned that just take my word on it

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being
seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

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

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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.

65% of people will have a flirting relationship with people at work and 2 out of 3 will act on it.
and 98% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
hmmm, **scribble, scribble, scribble**....... :shock:
That means minus 37% of people did not have groin stirring today? :?

chime wrote:

I knew someone who could lick his own elbow ... long tongue :shock:

:shock:

FYI
The Guiness Book of Records states that the person with the widest tongue in the world lives a 4 min drive from my house in Western Australia.

Hey girls, he's 28 and single.

chime wrote:

Jo wrote:

FYI
The Guiness Book of Records states that the preson with the widest tongue in the world lives a 4 min drive from my house in Western Australia.

Hey girls, he's 28 and single.

Funnily enough the guy who I knew who could like his elbow wasn't single

It is really good good that he "like" his elbows, self esteem is great.

That people put pear on ham sandwiches...WTF?

Jukee wrote:

That people put pear on ham sandwiches...WTF?

I know someone who has his woman put peanut butter on his ham and cheese sandwich....but the PB can't touch the cheese...because 'that's just wrong'.... :?