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The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
Penal Code 6260, California State Vehicle Act, Chapter XVIII, Paragraph 187, reads:
It is a misdemeanor to shoot any kind of game bird or mammal–except a whale, from an automobile or an airplane.

Ordinance No. 16 of Columbus, Mont. provides that;
Any person who shall not lift his hat to the Mayor as he passes him in the street, will be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Boys are prohibited from throwing snowballs at trees within the city limits of Mt. Pulaski, Ill., according to Section 37 of the Revised Ordinances of that city.

All Wisconsin boarding houses clubs, hotels and restaurants must serve with every meal sold at twenty-five cents or more, not less than two-thirds of an ounce of cheese.

Connecticut General Statutes provides for the punishment by fine or imprisonment for the “Enticing of a neighbor’s bees”.

The Revised Statutes of Kansas, 1923, state: It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit in a public way within the State of Kansas, any sort of exhibition that consists of the eating or pretending to eat of snakes, lizards, scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas, or other reptiles.

The State Housing Act of California, Sec. 74 reads: No horse, cow, calf, swine, sheep, goat, mule, or other animal, chicken, pigeon, goose, duck, or other poultry shall be kept in any apartment house or hotel or any part thereof.

In Alderson W.Va, an ordinance states: No lions shall be allowed to run wild on the streets of this city.

This is the law in Kansas: When two trains approach each other at a crossing, they shall both come to a complete stop, and neither shall start up until the other has gone.

In 1907, Michigan passed a law which reads: An act to provide for the lawful taking of suckers, mullet, dogfish, and lawyers from the Sturgeon River.

The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

3. “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “MT”.

4. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

5. In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.

6. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head..

7. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

8. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines

9. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.

10. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

11. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

12. When a person shakes his head from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka

13. There are more chickens than people in the world.

14. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

15. There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C..

16. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

17. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.

18. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

19. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

20. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

21. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

22. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.

23. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

24. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

25. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

26. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

27. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

28. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.

2. 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.

7. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10.Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

12. The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!

13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

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

15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in some countries.

18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19. Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23.  The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead.”

24 The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat

25. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

26. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

27. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

28. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

2. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”

3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8. “Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”

9. There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangiha ngakoauauotamate aturipukakapikim aungahoronukup okaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade Los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its length, L.A.

14. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

16. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

18. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

31. ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

33. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”

36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
* A meal in Istanbul could include lamb eyeballs dressed in a traditional Turkish cream sauce.

* In Central and South America, iguana meat is sautéed and turned into a gastronomic casserole that is eaten with bread or rice.

* Australian aboriginals commonly eat chopped, marinated kangaroo tails and sugar ants.

* Pickled ram’s testicles and decomposed shark meat are among the traditional Icelandic foods that present special challenges for tourists.

* In parts of Asia and Africa, locusts are typically dredged in wild honey to give them extra flavour.

* And people still reportedly breed dogs for food throughout severely impoverished areas of Korea and China. North American and UK animal rights groups are working to ban the practice.

* Bear paws and filets remain a highly prized dinner in Russia and Eastern Europe.

* Fresh snake meat is readily available in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Phoenix, Arizona.

* Chinese delicacies include shark fin soup and pigeon soup, while we here in the West have a fondness for goose liver pâté and frog legs.

The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
You have to try this please, it takes 2 seconds. I could not believe this! It is from an orthopaedic surgeon…………. This will confuse your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to see i! f you can outsmart your foot, but, you can’t. It is pre-programmed in your brain!

1. While sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number ‘6′ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

I told you so! And there’s nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you’ve not already done so.

Tell your friends and frustrate them too.

Have a nice day, mate!

The only cow in a small town in Australia stops giving milk. Computer literate town councilors
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. (Oh go ahead…I’ll wait)

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. (So, watch your Ass!)

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

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

The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE

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

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!) (That women are going the ‘right’ direction…?)

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

Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first ‘Marlboro Man’.

Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!

PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola,and Budweiser, in that order.

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

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

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

Look at what happened from 1998 until 2009. In eleven years it has grown and grown. Watch the pieces come together as they are sent up from Earth. This is the International Space Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece –This is really cool……

What a piece of engineering!!

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm

Ever wondered?

Odds of bowling a 300 game: 11,500 to 1

Odds of getting a hole in one: 5,000 to 1

Odds of getting canonized: 20,000,000 to 1

Odds of being an astronaut: 13,200,000 to 1

Odds of winning an Olympic medal: 662,000 to 1

Odds of an American speaking Cherokee: 15000 to 1

Odds that a person between the age of 18 and 29 does NOT read a newspaper regularly: 3 to 1

Odds that an American adult does not want to live to age 120 under any circumstances: 3 to 2

Odds of injury from fireworks: 19,556 to 1

Odds of injury from shaving: 6,585 to 1

Odds of injury from using a chain saw: 4,464 to 1

Odds of injury from mowing the lawn: 3,623 to 1

Odds of fatally slipping in bath or shower: 2,232 to 1

Odds of drowning in a bathtub: 685,000 to 1

Odds of being killed on a 5-mile bus trip: 500,000,000 to 1

Odds of being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1

Odds of being killed in any sort of non-transportation accident: 69 to 1

Odds of being struck by lightning: 576,000 to 1

Odds of being killed by lightning: 2,320,000 to 1

Odds of being murdered: 18,000 to 1

Odds of getting away with murder: 2 to 1

Odds of being the victim of serious crime in your lifetime: 20 to 1

Odds of dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1

Odds of being considered possessed by Satan: 7,000 to 1

Odds that a first marriage will survive without separation or divorce for 15 years: 1.3 to 1

Odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime: 3 to 1