Don Hite at myITforum.com

Did you know that…

• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
• More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
• Only 80% of the teenagers in America can speak fluent English.
• Mosquito repellents don't repel instead they block 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.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than caffeine.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• 35 % of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• The three most valuable brand names are Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo.
• Firehouses have circular stairways because in the beginning engines were pulled by horses and they figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all of the letters from the word "criminal." And William Jefferson Clinton was the next.
• Clinophobia is the fear of beds and Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law
• Starfish don’t have brains.
• A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• Lions can mate over 50 times a day.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime while sleeping at night.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• In Alaska where bear hunting is legal it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear to takes its photograph.