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Lisa Simpson Strange: Weird facts return to column Horses can’t vomit.
Butterflies taste with their feet. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of 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. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. 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.” 
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