Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Facts.

Just thought these facts are funny...so...read on...

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.



Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf .

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.


On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

"101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie

The muslim calling to prayer is heard by more people than any other sound of the human voice. This is the prayer recited by muslims from each of the four corners of the prayer tower as Muslims all over the world face toward Mecca and pray 5 times a day. It means: "Allah is the almighty. There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of God."

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.


A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.

A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.

A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)

A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.

A group of crows is called a murder.


A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.


A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years

A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.


A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.


Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.

Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).


All elephants walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of no bone just fat.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

All polar bears are left-handed.

All porcupines can float in water.

All pyrimids were bright white.

All snakes on the island of Tasmania are poisonous.


Almonds are part of the peach family.

Among transsexuals who choose sex-change operations, females who elect to become males are reportedly happier and better adjusted after the procedures than males who elect to become female.

An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.

An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.

An Octopus has 3 hearts!

An owl cannot move it's eyeballs in its eye sockets.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Much love.

No one's updated in ages.....
So here I am...
Hey ELKS we haven been able to meet up properly for waaaaaay too long..
I vote we make this coming mon a movie day.... just to get back to basics....
Oh n the long talks... dun forget the talks...
I miss u guys mucho...