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ON A JAPANESE FOOD PROCESSOR - Not to be used for the other use.
ON A KOREAN KITCHEN KNIFE - Warning: keep out of children
ON A PACKET OF SUNMAID RAISINS - Why not try tossing over your favorite breakfast cereal?
ON A STRING OF CHINESE MADE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS - For indoor or outdoor use only.
ON A SWEDISH CHAINSAW - Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands.
ON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PACKET OF NUTS - Instructions: open packet; eat nuts.
ON BOOTS CHILDREN'S COUGH MEDICINE - Do not drive car or operate machinery
ON MARKS & SPENCER BREAD PUDDING - Product will be hot after heating
ON NYTOL (A SLEEP AID) - Warning: may cause drowsiness
ON PACKAGING FOR A ROWENTA IRON - Do not Iron clothes on body
ON SAINSBURY'S PEANUTS - Warning: contains nuts
ON TESCO'S TIRIMISU DESERT - Do not turn upside down. (Printed on the bottom of the box.)
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An elephant can smell water three miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 348,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case'letters.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
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ON A JAPANESE FOOD PROCESSOR - Not to be used for the other use.
ON A KOREAN KITCHEN KNIFE - Warning: keep out of children
ON A PACKET OF SUNMAID RAISINS - Why not try tossing over your favorite breakfast cereal?
ON A STRING OF CHINESE MADE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS - For indoor or outdoor use only.
ON A SWEDISH CHAINSAW - Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands.
ON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PACKET OF NUTS - Instructions: open packet; eat nuts.
ON BOOTS CHILDREN'S COUGH MEDICINE - Do not drive car or operate machinery
ON MARKS & SPENCER BREAD PUDDING - Product will be hot after heating
ON NYTOL (A SLEEP AID) - Warning: may cause drowsiness
ON PACKAGING FOR A ROWENTA IRON - Do not Iron clothes on body
ON SAINSBURY'S PEANUTS - Warning: contains nuts
ON TESCO'S TIRIMISU DESERT - Do not turn upside down. (Printed on the bottom of the box.)
-------------more-------------
An elephant can smell water three miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 348,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case'letters.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net