Weird Things You Probably Never Knew

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Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

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

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

Women blink twice as much a men.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with the word "month."

The average lifespan of a major league baseball is seven pitches.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

American, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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IMPOSSIBLE FINAL EXAMS

Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit: 2 hours. Begin immediately.

Art: Given one eight-count box of crayons and three sheets of notebook paper, recreate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Skin tones should be true to life.

Biology: Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the English Parliamentary System circa 1750. Prove your thesis.

Chemistry: You must identify a poison sample which you will find at your lab table. All necessary equipment has been provided. There are two beakers at your desk, one of which holds the antidote. If the wrong substance is used, it causes instant death. You may begin as soon as the professor injects you with a sample of the poison. (We feel this will give you an incentive to find the correct answer.)

Civil Engineering: This is a practical test of your design and building skills. With the boxes of toothpicks and glue present, build a platform that will wupport your weight when you and your platform are suspended over a vat of nitric acid.

Computer Science: Write a fifth-generation computer language. Using this language, write a computer program to finish the rest of this exam for you.

Economics: Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the possible effects of your plan in the following areas: Cubism, the Donatist Controversy and the Wave Theory of Light. Outline a method for preventing these effects. Criticize this method from all possible points of view. Point out the deficiencies in your point of view, as demonstrated in your answer to the last question.

Electrical Engineering: You will be placed in a nuclear reactor and given a partial copy of the electrical layout. The electrical system has been tampered with. You have seventeen minutes to find the problem and correct it before the reactor melts down.

Engineering: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In 10 minutes, a hungry bengal tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action you feel necessary. Be prepared to justify your decision.

Epistemology: Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your stand.

General Knowledge: Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.

History: Describe the history of the Papacy from its origins to the present day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its Europe, Asia, America and Africa. Be brief, concise and specific.

Mathematics: Derive the Euler-Cauchy equations using only a straightedge and compass. Discuss in detail the role these equations had on mathematical analysis in Europe during the 1800s.

Medicine: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until you work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes.

Metaphysics: Describe in detail the probably nature of life after death. Test your hypothesis.

Music: Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with flute and drum. You will find a piano under your seat.

Philosophy: Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.

Physchology: Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisis, Rameses II, Hammuarabi. Support your evaluation with quotations from each man's work, making appropriate references. It is not necessary to translate.

Physics: Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
Political Science: There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects if any.

Public Speaking: 2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.

Religion: Perform a miracle. Creativity will be judged.

Sociology: Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.

Extra Credit: Define the universe, and give three examples.

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A GREAT ORK OF FACTS I HAV NEVER IMAGINED.
NAMELY THE TYPEWRITER FACCT I AM SEARCHING FOR DAYS

THKS BUDDY.
I ENJOYED THESE FACTS MUCH

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> If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your
> food on your right side.
> If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your
> food on your left side
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> 2
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> If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more
> water. For when a human
> body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
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> 3
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> Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from
> crying.
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> Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it
> is white there is a thin
> film of bacteria on it.
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> The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts'
> meaning 'the best or
> nothing'.
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> The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS
> signal.
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> The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent
> when a person looks at
> something pleasing.
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> The average person who stops smoking requires one
> hour less sleep a night.
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> Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and
> strengthens the immune system.
> Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.
> Adults only laugh 15 to
> 100 times a day.
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> 10
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> The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next
> to our ear is not the
> ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through
> the veins in the ear.
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> Dalmatians are born without spots.
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> Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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> The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand
> for 'versus', but for
> 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in
> criminal proceedings)
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> 14
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> Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but
> women's shirts have the
> buttons on the left
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> The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to
> wink. All other birds
> raise their lower eyelids
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> The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's
> already been digested by
> a bee
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> Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their
> necks
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> The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the
> brain to release calming
> hormones
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