do you know that...

1) Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning! (hmmm...)

2) It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! (awwww...)

3) Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark! ( that's the objective!!!)

4) Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

5) About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30! ( oh dear, no wonder the egyptian women are unhappy)

6) A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h!( Wow! )

7) The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! ( do they count wetdreams too??)

8) Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

9) Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue! ( the only bird could watch blue-films...?)

10) A jellyfish is 95 percent water! ( can we drink jelly fish when we are thirsty??)

11) The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! ( it will be hell loose if they can)

12) The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!

13) Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! (now thats interesting.......)

14) America once issued a 5-cent bill!

15) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! ( imagine saliva slurp over the bank book...)

16) Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!

17) A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! ( yucks... imagine eating wax)

18) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

19) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

20) Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

21) You blink about 84,000,000 times a year!

22) In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!

23) A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! ( probably why the death toll went up after "Billy the kid" was shown..)

24) Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!

25) The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

26) A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!

27) The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons! ( now tell me where can i find such a weighing machine..??)

29) A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

30) The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

31) Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that paws?!

32) The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

33) Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women! ('cos we have something that points north??)

34) Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

35) Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!

36) Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings! (that's a new addiction..)

37) Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! ( it's definitely a cheaper way to slim down, now down with those slimming ads in the media..)

38) After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! Yuk! *puke*

39) Tomatoes are also known as Love Apples.

40) you can do something else better than reading all this...