Just in case you didn't know, now you do

[Whiteclipse99]

Just when I thought I knew everything...

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

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 first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

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

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

The wingspan of the B-36, a retired USAF bomber, was twice as long.

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.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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? William Jefferson Clinton.


Turtles can breathe through their butts.



Who knows if some of them are actually true, but some of them are still entertaining. And I bet 3 out of 4 of you will try to see if you can fold a piece of paper more than 7 times......I know I did.

[thermal]

Good stuf man. I've read about this a while back......

I tired the paper thing Damn thing is true!

[mylittlecivic]

lol those are crazy. has anyone ever watched that myth show on mtv ? kinda cheesy but yea intersting things.......

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Whoa that's pretty cool. The paper trick is pretty weird.

[Daviso27]

An Asian Woman's Vagina is sideways...I've seen one.

[DsBlu01CivEX]

OK yah since Erin and I get the same emails from our friends, I got this one too. There were two that concerned me the most. The first is the Marilyn Monroe having 6 toes thing. Were all 6 toes on 1 foot, giving her a toe grand total of 11 or did she just have 6 toes all together???? The statement isn't very clear. And then the second disturbing one to me is the turtles breating out of their butts thing.....did someone hold a mirror up to their butts to test this? How did someone get the job of trying to find out other breathing methods of turtles?

[sohc_vtec 2NR]

i think i may have learned somethin' today...

[ebpda9]

Originally posted by Whiteclipse99
Turtles can breathe through their butts.

i could only imagine the smell :o

[nonovurbizniz]

I think a lot of those are b.s.

here's one example...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...quack_echo.htm

[nonovurbizniz]

and another....

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/011116.html

[VR4_Craver]

My brother (dingo) printed these exact ones out but there was another one "It is impossible to lick your own elbow" And the last one to be said was "9 out of 10 people who read this will try to lick there own elbow" That is true becuase as son as i was donw i tried like hell and so did brother, and mom, and girlfriend....and so many others....

Originally posted by VR4_Craver
My brother (dingo) printed these exact ones out but there was another one "It is impossible to lick your own elbow" And the last one to be said was "9 out of 10 people who read this will try to lick there own elbow" That is true becuase as son as i was donw i tried like hell and so did brother, and mom, and girlfriend....and so many others....

lmao..i read half the sentence and I tried to lick my elbow...Read the other half and I felt like a dumbass lol.!!!!!

lol

[Whiteclipse99]

Originally posted by DsBlu01CivEX
There were two that concerned me the most. The first is the Marilyn Monroe having 6 toes thing. Were all 6 toes on 1 foot, giving her a toe grand total of 11 or did she just have 6 toes all together???? The statement isn't very clear.

I've heard about this one before and I'm pretty sure it meant she had a total of 11 toes. She had 6 on one foot and of course 5 on the other.

[GT40FIED]

Originally posted by Whiteclipse99
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Of course...and a reem of paper is 511 (or so) sheets because that's the number of pieces it takes so the entirety of the reem can't be folded in half.

[nonovurbizniz]

I tried... my tongue no reach-y.

*edit*Man if I could count how many times I've said that.... lol (just kinda came to me after I typed the first part)
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