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Saturday 4 October 2008

Nonsense

Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child No centipede was ever found with 100 hundred legs. Octopus have 2 legs and 6 arms. Ergophobia is a fear of work. Our eyes are always the same size from birth. that’s why some babies look like frogs. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The flea can jump 350 times its body length A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death. Butterflies taste with their feet. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain. Starfish don’t have brains. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left-handed people Polar bears are left-handed. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Cartoon from Savage Chickens Nonsense from Karlology

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