Butterflies taste with their feet.

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. 

No word in the English language rhymes with "Month"

The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

Americans eat over 18 acres of Pizza a day.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

On average 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents daily!

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary my dear Watson."

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who  discovered this??)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

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

Celery has negative calories. 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.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

An Elephant can die from a broken heart.

~Emi

(Wasn't that so much more interesting than reading about someone you don't even know?)

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