Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

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

It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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.

No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

“How was your golf game, dear?” asked Jack’s wife Edna.

“Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight’s gotten so bad I can’t see where the ball lands. I think I’llhave to give up playing golf.”

“But you’re only seventy-five years old, Jack!” admonished his wife, “Why don’t you take my brother Ronald along?”

“But he’s eighty-five, and he doesn’t even play golf anymore,” protested Jack.

“He has perfect eyesight, though. He could watch the ball for you,” Edna pointed out.

The next day Jack teed off with Ronald looking on. Jack swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway. “Did you see it?” asked Jack.

“Yup,” Ronald answered.

“Well, where is it?” yelled Jack, peering off into the distance.

“I forgot.”