Nope, it actually came from Victorian times on Britain when the plague was going around. People with the plague would sneeze a lot and when people said "bless you" it meant that they blessed them to go to Heaven, if they died. Oh yeah, I remember one of my friends saying that on this program they said it is impossible to lick your own elbow. But people sent in photos of themselves doing that so apparently they had to apologise. :lol:
lol, well ill allow it, my mate is double jointed and he can also lick his elbow but he hasnt shown me yet post edited
dislocate your shoulder, bend it a lot farther than it should be able to go, and u may be able to... i guess.... i dont see the point tho, does your elbow have some magical special taste? "OOOO IT'S LIKE ALL THE FOODS I'VE EVER LOVED ALL IN ONE!! THANK YOU MAGICAL ELBOW!!"
lol, i wouldnt find whats the meaning of cutting your hand :| however i wouldnt go that far to lick elbows
Sometime ago I alsmost got $25 for eating a spider in an ice cube!! Too bad I've read all of them before, got thanks for posting again, and pigs can jump? Wow. How can they jump if they can't even see the sky :x
another random fact: back in the days of king henry the VI (I think). whenever a letter was sent to the king, it was considered a blessing for him to actually read it. So he declared, "if you kiss your signature before you send it, there is a better chance that I will read it, because that shows that you love me, you love your king." well, most people were illerterate, and had to pay to have their letters written, but they still had to sign them. So they would put and "X" as their signature. After kissing it, they would send it off to the king. this is how the whole I love you XOXOXO thing was created. X is for kiss no?
I tried to remove the facts you already have up there but I might have missed some. A few are... very very uhhhh interesting... A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. A ----roach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (I wanna be a pig...) A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A." Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: Afghan. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Being a lion isn't that bad either...) Starfishes haven't got brains. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. 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 average person falls asleep in seven minutes. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life." The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (I don't wanna be a praying mantis...) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. There are more chickens than people in the world. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Edit: Here's some more Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria. You are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be eaten by a shark. You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning. If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare it's barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed. When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite the gas jets properly, it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally while trying to light it by hand. If this has happened, when the match does light, sometimes a trail of flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth, filling your lungs with fire. Oddly enough, you would suffocate before burning to death as the flame could consume the oxygen in every breath you would take. On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes. Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals. Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction. In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles? More people working in advertising died on the job in 1996 than died while working in petroleum refining. And another one: Subject: Scary Facts. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician are 0.171(U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services). Then think about this: The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000 (yes, eighty-million!). The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188. Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR. Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public service, I have omitted the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.
