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Interesting Things You Didn't Know
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue
out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have
about 10.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because
he doesn't wear any pants.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
February 1865 is the only
month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If
Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice
the length of a normal human's neck.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end
because of the rate of reproduction.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows
and eyelashes.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan has made more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers
in Malaysia combined.
No word in the English language rhymes with month or orange.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if
injected intravenously.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal
today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
Our eyes are always
the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people do.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Some lions mate over 50 times
a day.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side
when intoxicated.
The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste
buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric
chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood
30 feet.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that
they start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice
as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for
blacks and whites.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The word racecar
and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are two credit cards for every person
in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous
spider.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Close to the door
He paused to stand
As he took his class ring
Off
her hand.
All who were watching
Did not speak
As a silent tear
Ran down his cheek
And through his mind
The
memories ran
Of the moments they walked
And laughed in the sand
But now her eyes were so terrible cold
For he
would never again
Have her to hold.
They watched in silence
As he bent near
And whispered the words......
"I
LOVE YOU" in her ear.
He touched her face
And started to cry
As he put on his ring
And wanted to die.
And just
then
The wind began to blow
As they lowered her casket
Into the snow....
This is what happens
To man alive......
...when
friends let friends.....
drink and drive.
--Author Unknown
Johnny brought a gun to school,
He told his friends that it was cool.
And when he pulled
the trigger back,
It shot with a great crack.
Mommy, I was a good girl, I did
What I was told,
I went to school,
I got straight As,
I even got the gold!
But Mommy, when I went to school that day,
I never said good-bye,
I'm
sorry Mommy, I had to go,
But Mommy, please don't cry.
When Johnny shot the gun,
He hit me and another,
And all
because Johnny,
Got the gun from his older brother.
Mommy, please tell Daddy,
That I love him very much,
And please
tell Chris, my boyfriend,
That it wasn't just a crush.
And tell my little sister,
That she is the only one now.
And
tell dear sweet grandmother,
I'll be waiting for her now.
And tell my wonderful friends,
That they always were the
best,
Mommy, I'm not the first,
I'm no better than the rest..
Mommy, tell the teachers,
I won't show up for class,
And
never to forget this,
And please don't let this pass.
Mommy, why'd it have to be me?
No one deserves this.
Mommy
warn the others,
Mommy, I left without a kiss.
And Mommy, tell the doctors,
I know they really did try.
I think
I even saw a doctor,
Trying not to cry.
Mommy, I'm slowing dying,
With a bullet in my chest,
But Mommy, please
remember,
I'm in heaven with the rest.
Mommy, I ran as fast as I could,
When I heard that crack,
Mommy, listen
to me if you would,
I'm not coming back.
I wanted to go to college,
I wanted to try things that were new,
I guess
I'm not going with Daddy,
On that trip to the new zoo.
I wanted to get married,
I wanted to have a kid,
I wanted
to be an actress,
Mommy, I wanted to live.
Mommy, tell my boyfriend,
I'm sorry, but I had to cancel the date.
I
love you Mommy, I always have,
I know; you know it's true.
And Mommy, all I wanted to say is,
Mommy, I love you.
Written with a pen.
Sealed with a kiss.
If you are my friend,
please answer this,
Are
we friends Or are we not?
You told me once But I forgot.
So tell me now And tell me true.
So i can say...
"I'm
here for you."
Of all my friends I've ever met,
You're the one I wont forget.
And if I die Before you do,
I'll
go to heaven
And wait for you.
A poem to think about!
People do things that are stupid and dumb,
they
call them mistakes where I come from.
The first step in forgive and forgetting
is the hardest of all, it is admitting.
Admit that you messed up and tell no more lies.
the key step in this process is apologize.
Death of the Innocent
I went to a party, Mom,
I remembered what you said.
You told me not to drink, Mom,
so I drank soda instead.
I really felt proud inside, Mom,
the way you said I would.
I didn't drink and drive, Mom,
even though the
others said I should.
I know I did the right thing, Mom,
I know you are always right.
Now the party is finally
ending, Mom,
as everyone is driving out of sight.
As I got into my car, Mom,
I knew I'd get home in one piece.
Because of the way you raised me,
so responsible and sweet.
I started to drive away, Mom,
but as I pulled
out into the road,
the other car didn't see me, Mom,
and hit me like a load.
As I lay there on the pavement, Mom,
I hear the policeman say,
the other guy is drunk, Mom,
and now I'm the one who will pay.
I'm lying here dying,
Mom.
I wish you'd get here soon.
How could this happen to me, Mom?
My life just burst like a balloon.
There
is blood all around me, Mom,
and most of it is mine.
I hear the medic say, Mom,
I'll die in a short time.
I
just wanted to tell you, Mom,
I swear I didn't drink.
It was the others, Mom.
The others didn't think.
He
was probably at the same party as I.
The only difference is,
he drank and I will die.
Why do people drink, Mom?
It can ruin your whole life.
I'm feeling sharp pains now.
Pains just like a knife.
The guy who hit me is walking,
Mom,
and I don't think it's fair.
I'm lying here dying and all he can do is stare.
Tell my brother not to cry,
Mom.
Tell Daddy to be brave.
And when I go to heaven,
Mom, put "Daddy's Girl" on my grave.
Someone should have
told him, Mom,
not to drink and drive.
If only they had told him, Mom,
I would still be alive.
My breath is
getting shorter, Mom.
I'm becoming very scared.
Please don't cry for me, Mom.
When I needed you, you were always
there.
I have one last question, Mom,
before I say good bye.
I didn't drink and drive,
so why am I the one
to die?
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