*Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

*Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

*The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

*No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

*Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

*Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

*The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

*A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

*Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

*Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

*Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

*Pearls melt in vinegar.

*It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

*A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

*The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

*Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

*Butterflies taste with their feet.

*In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

*On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

*On average people fear spiders more than death.

*Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

*Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

*Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

*It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

* 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.

*A snail can sleep for three years.

*Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

*The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

*All polar bears are left handed.

*An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

*Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

*Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.