Weird Things You Would Never Know!!

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 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.

A collapsible skeletal structure allows rats to fit through holes the size of a quarter.

Brown rats can bite six times per second, exerting a pressure of 7000 pounds per square inch. On Mohs' scale of hardness, a rat's incisors are rated 5.5 - harder than iron, which is 4.0.

The life expectancy of a rat is approximately one year. In that time, a rat may have sex 20 times a day and has the potential of producing 15,000 offspring with one mate.

City rats weigh 40% more than noncity rats and grow twice as fast, reaching a maximum of 20 inches and two pounds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now that you've mastered patting your head while rubbing a circle on your tummy, try this for coordination:

1. While sitting at your desk, make clockwise circles with your right foot.
2. While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.
3. Your foot will automatically change direction counterclockwise....

First Ladies
1857 - Harriet Lane becomes First Lady for the only President who never married: James Buchanan, her uncle and guardian after she was orphaned at the age of 11.

She wins national popularity by handling social functions with dignity and grace in the midst of major national turmoil and upheaval.

Later in life, she collects a sizable art collection, which she donates to the government before her death, earning her the title of First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts.