"There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-

Some twisted facts of the century:-

• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Most people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
• Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 years or older.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• In 1970, a group of people were arrested at Highgate cemetry for intent to harm...a vampire! The vampire is rumoured to still be around today.
• Prisoners in a California jail were so spooked by an Ouija board they made that priests were called in to cast out demons. The convicts had summoned up spirits, including a woman who told them how she was murdered.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out the body, it squirts 30 feet.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• After complaining about the smell in their room, a couple staying in a hotel in the US discovered the body of a murdered girl under the bed.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Ants always fall over on their right side when intoxicated.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
  
• Starfish have no brain.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
• In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• In every episode of Seinfield, there is a Superman somewhere.
• In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
• Almonds are member of the peach family.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
• Horses and rats can't vomit.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• Accidental deaths caused by Physicians in a year are 120,000.
• A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
• The Amityville films of the 70s, about a house full of ghostly activities, were based on a true story.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
• Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.