Facts

[saunders clan]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

[Aldo]

Originally Posted by ESSEX TO AUS

Not to my knowledge.

When will you be back to the land of the living?

As soon as the house is sold, i'm hoping before xmas as the excitement of the xmas meat raffle at the riverlakes tavern might send me over the top

[Aldo]

The span of your arms finger tip to finger tip is equal to your height.

[saunders clan]

At the age of 4 (i think) you are supposedly half your adult height!

Maybe younger than that.

[GetDown]

Originally Posted by Aldo

- You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows.
- All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long.
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.
- Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
- The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
- Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
- The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- An average persons hand does 56% of the typing.
- The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
- Some Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
- The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year!
- Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
- An octopus' testicles are located in its head.
- Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.
- The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
- The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
- Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.
- The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.
- Formicophilia is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
- The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
- The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
- India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
- Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
- "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded with the hands.
- 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.

Another great post Aldo......good onya mate!

[johatts]

Originally Posted by saunders clan

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

I was told once that when you sneeze your eyes are closed for 3 seconds! i told my stepson that , after I had sneezed three times in a row when I was driving him home!!!! Freaked him out!!!

[Aldo]

Originally Posted by GetDown

Another great post Aldo......good onya mate!

thanks getdown i'm here to please

[GetDown]

Apparentley......your more likley to loose your watch if your married to a fat women??? so ive been told?

[One-And-Only]

The coordinates 50°12'47.26"N 8°52'7.31"E when typed into google earth or maps shows an aeroplane flying through the sky!
Strange what you can find on there

[johatts]

Sad and freakishly true!
Yep, I did it! I went and checked! (its been a long day - I needed some light relief!!!!)