Butterflies taste with their feet.    (And how did we discover this?)

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.    (That's a lot of power.)

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.    (Ew, what person eats their pens?)

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.    (I know a few of those people.)

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.    (So how do you tell them where to go if they speak another language?  Just wondering.)

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.    (That's just not right.)

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.    (Hey, if you weighed over a ton, you wouldn't be able to jump either.)

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.    (Well, by the time you get that old, you probably don't even
know you exist.  So fine with me.)

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.    (All righty then.)

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.    (That's cause they are always flirting with guys, and battin' their eyes at 'em.)

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.    (Dumb engineers.)

A snail can sleep for three years.    (But why would it want to?)

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.    (Ok, it's bad enough when I'm in the dentist chair, but now I have to think
about the fact that he may be planning on electrocuting me?  Come on.)

All polar bears are left handed.    (Ok, #1, bears don't have hands, #2, who cares?)

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.    (OUCH!)

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.    (That's big.)

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.    (And why would it want to?)

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.    (Yeah, that's a lot of pizza.)