Bet you didn't know.....

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• It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A shrimp's heart is in its head.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
• If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.
• Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
• Cat urine glows under a black-light.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).
• A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.
• The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• 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."
• A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.