1. Over 50% of all people fantasize more often about money than sex, so technically, Bill Gates is the hearthrob of the world.
2. Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions
3. Lip stick was said to have been invented in the Eygptian times for women that specialized in oral sex. They wanted their lips to look more inviting
4.According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
5.The saying 'Mind your P's and Q's' comes from the time when alcoholic beverages were served/sold in Pints and Quarts. Thus, to mind your P's and Q's meant to be careful how much you drank.

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haha, those are pretty good

Only 2% of the world's population can lick their elbow.

The Coca Cola company uses coke from concentrate to degrease their truck engines.

Ginger works 2x better than dramamine for motion sickness.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which
contained the letter "E".

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

Ants never sleep.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

Most people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

- Paedophobia
is a fear of children

47 elephants and dancing bears survived the sinking of the Titanic and got jobs in New York thereafter.

Automatonophobia
is a fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues or anything that falsly represents a sentient being.

Unatractiphobia
is a fear of ugly people. -----> i am sure a few people have this one.

In Alabama it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as a weapon. This comes after a 13 year old boy was killed when he was stabbed with a comb.

In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'

The Bic pen was named after its French Inventor Marcel Bich. However they decided to drop the 'H' from the name fearing that the American market might pronounce the name 'Bitch'

QUOTE (tankertux @ Jan 4 2004, 02:08 PM)

Only 2% of the world's population can lick their elbow. Most people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

QUOTE (tankertux @ Jan 4 2004, 02:08 PM)

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "E".

whats it called? i'd like to read it

no seriously

Here is a good one

When reading horizontally from Shakespeare's original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads 'I am a homosexual' in the last 14 lines of the book. Was this a message, or just a coincidence?

And for lebriznon

The name of the book Vincent Wright wrote was ""Gadsby"

Theres a good book out there called " An underground Education" by richard zacks
very off the wall stuff!!!

cool

QUOTE (backflip BOB @ Jan 5 2004, 11:31 AM)

When reading horizontally from Shakespeare's original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads 'I am a homosexual' in the last 14 lines of the book. Was this a message, or just a coincidence?

horizontally?

QUOTE (backflip BOB @ Jan 3 2004, 11:01 AM)

5.The saying 'Mind your P's and Q's' comes from the time when alcoholic beverages were served/sold in Pints and Quarts. Thus, to mind your P's and Q's meant to be careful how much you drank.

Is that some sort of enlish rule regaurding paragraphs and quotations? I remember something like that