I got this by e-mail,I thought some of you might get a kick out of it.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquitoes sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty 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 mustache

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

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

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

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

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice .

Pearls melt in vinegar.

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

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.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the
engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up
straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all
the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson
Clinton.

And, the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

[b]Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.[/b]

Is this referring to on it's own axis or around the sun?

Mike

Its own axis.  All planets in this solar system orbit the sun in the same direction.

On Venus, any mechanical clock would probably melt.  Average surface temperature is about 860°F.  Plus, a Venutian "day" is 5832.5 hours.  That'd take a [i]really big[/i] clockface.

There has to be some kind of stipulation on the above statement.  I was just able to fold a common piece of printer paper in half 8 times.  I'm sure I could fold an unrolled roll of toilet paper in half more then 7 times as well.

[i]The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.[/i]

Anyone here seen Jackie Chan's "Who Am I?"?  In that movie, Jackie Chan uses a coconut for an IV on someone with a snakebite.


[i]Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.[/i]

That depends on whether you're looking at it from the north or south :-)


[i]Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.[/i]

Another intresting fact:  I heard somewhere that an average adult loses about 40 pounds of skin per year.  Pretty much all of that, of course, goes into the air.


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

Not surprised.