segunda-feira, outubro 14, 2002

Especial Cultura Inutil

Tah em ingles por pura falta de coragem pra traduzir...


  • Butterflies taste with their feet. 

  • A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 

  • In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. 

  • On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. 

  • On average people fear spiders more than they do death. 

  • Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. 

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

  • Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 

  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 

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

  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

  • It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. 

  • The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight

  • of all the books that would occupy the building. 

  • A snail can sleep for three years. 

  • No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." 

  • Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. 

  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

  • SCARY!!! 

  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 

  • All polar bears are left-handed. 

  • In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 

  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 

  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 

  • "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 

  • If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She Would stand seven feet, two inches tall. 

  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 

  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 

  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 

  • Almost everyone who reads this post will try to lick their elbow.