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Interesting Questions & Facts
2/25/2009 at 1:07 PM
Interesting questions:
1. After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?
2. How can there be self-help "groups"?
3. If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?
4. If a mute swears, does his mother make him wash his *hands* with soap?
5. If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide & seek, does he automatically lose because he can't find himself?
6. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
7. Is there another word for synonym?
8. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
9. When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their picket signs?
10. When you open a new bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
11. When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at carpeting?
12. Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?
13. Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
14. Why do they report power outages on TV?
15. Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter 11?
16. If knees were backwards, what would chairs look like?
17. If you lick the air, does it get wet?
Interesting Facts:
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12,345,678,987,654,321.
The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.