Weird Things You Would Never Know!!

1. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.  
2. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

3. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

4. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.  

5. 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. 

6. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".  

7. Average life span of a major league x-udball: 7 pitches. 

8. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

9. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 

 

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it

>deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod

>are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and

>lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

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>The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it

>wouthit porbelm.

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>Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey

>lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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>Aamzanig, huh?